General: Army Needs More Futurists to Better Predict Conflict

[rangerrebew]

General: Army Needs More Futurists to Better Predict Conflict

Military.com 6 Dec 2017 By Matthew Cox

Army officials, analysts and authors met Wednesday to try to improve the U.S. military's poor track record of predicting future conflict.

Maj. Gen. William Hix, director of strategy, plans and policy for the office of the U.S. Army's Deputy Chief of Staff G-3/5/7, said, "Prediction is fraught with danger," at the Atlantic Council's U.S. Army Futures Forum.

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2017/12/06/general-army-needs-more-futurists-better-predict-conflict.html

[RetBobbyMI]

The Army has plenty of the futurists. They are at every TRADOC centers and schools. I was one of them. The problem is these armchair policy wonks that only do it later in their careers and then don’t listen to the futurists in the trenches. He thinks after all his “schooling” that he knows better. So much for Army leaders.