Why Military Millennials Might Be America’s Achilles’ Heel
By ML Cavanaugh
August 03, 2017
“Be strong enough to know when you are weak,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur once advised. But what matters more is to know howand where you’re vulnerable.
During the Cold War, the director of the US Office of Net Assessment, Andrew Marshall, found America had a “distinct and meaningful advantage” in that the “bulk of the Soviet forces were composed of conscripts” who were “poorly trained and lacking technical know-how.” Marshall’s insight was to use the Soviet soldiers’ relative deprivation against them. In a military based on a thoroughly mechanized, road-mobile doctrine, the fact that the average Soviet recruit didn’t grow up with cars provided a weakness to be exploited.
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