The Infantryman’s Christmas List: How to Equip Our Men for Ground Combat
by Robert H. Scales
December 15, 2016 4:00 AM
This inexpensive, off-the-shelf gear will save lives and increase our soldiers’ and Marines’ killing power. Those of us who have spent our lives leading soldiers and Marines in combat agree with President-elect Donald Trump on one major campaign issue: We are fed-up with the defense establishment paying for high-tech fighter-jet programs such as the F-35 that cost more than a trillion dollars when, after 15 years of ground warfare and thousands of dead soldiers and Marines, we still send these “intimate killers” into combat with inferior gear.
Take a closer look inside the Department of Defense’s weapons-buying cabal and you’ll see people mad at work cooking up still more Star Wars–type stuff — from magic electronic rail guns to plane-killing laser blasters to hypersonic space planes. All this future gear would make George Lucas proud. But this stuff is about as far out in space and time as Luke Skywalker.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443046/ground-combat-christmas-list-inexpensive-gear-equip-military-ground-combat
