April 4, 2019
All of the Crazy New Gear the U.S. Army Wants to Smash the Enemy
by WarIsBoring
In 2014, having withdrawn from Iraq and looking to end its official combat mission in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army started to assess the impact of more than a decade of almost exclusively fighting insurgents and terrorists. In that time, it had trained its troops primarily for that mission and bought gear specifically for those nebulous conflicts.
But the world seemed to be getting more complicated and troops would need new weapons and gear to help deal with these threats. So, the ground combat branch went on a modernization blitz.
In December 2016, the Army released a “top 10†list of its modernization efforts. The programs ranged from vehicles to aircraft to individual weapons and medical equipment.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/all-crazy-new-gear-us-army-wants-smash-enemy-50652
