The U.S. Army Wants To Spend Billions Of Dollars On A Tank It Doesn’t Need

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The U.S. Army Wants To Spend Billions Of Dollars On A Tank It Doesn’t Need
Joe Kassabian
5/29/18 4:25pm


The U.S. Army wants to spend a billion dollars on a light tank, a vehicle it doesn’t need, because it already had a vehicle that fit the exact same role. And the Army canned it.

The United States military is shifting its focus from almost two decades of low intensity conflicts, conflicts it is still involved in, to a more conventional force, meaning more tanks and artillery development and less counter insurgency operations. This is a paradigm shift towards countering the U.S.’s more traditional foes, Russia and China. That shift had led several military leaders into thinking the next war might be what Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis called a “Great Powers Land War.”

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