Army ‘living off the fat’ of post-Vietnam tech advances
By: Jessie Bur   15 hours ago
After the losses of the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army experienced a wake-up call that it needed to improve its warfighting technologies, which in turn led to many of the tools and practices that made it a world military power.
But according to Maj. Gen. William Hix, deputy director of the Army Modernization Command Task Force, the Army has since been “living off the fat†of those technological advances, and will have to do more to keep ahead of the other rising world powers.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/it-networks/2018/05/24/army-living-off-the-fat-of-post-vietnam-tech-advances/
