Closing the Capabilities Gap: Seven Things the Army Needs for a Winning Future
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Scott R. Gourley, Contributing Writer
Friday, January 13, 2017
An Army that for 15 years has had almost no money to spend on weapons modernization or soldier performance has a lengthy and potentially expensive list of unmet future warfighting requirements.
The National Commission on the Future of the Army warned a year ago that the U.S. in general—and the Army in particular—was “increasingly challenged to maintain a technological advantage” over potential adversaries.
Gen. David G. Perkins, the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command commanding general responsible for producing an operating plan for the Army’s future, has described this as not just spending money, but spending it on the right things.
“The Army doesn’t need $1 million solutions to $100 problems,” he has said, adding that the goal is winning. “The Army does not buy things to fight. We develop capabilities to win in a complex world that is ever changing.”
https://www.ausa.org/articles/closing-capabilities-gap-seven-things-army-needs-winning-future
