An Unmanned Future for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps?
By
James Holmes
Unmanned Military
Last month the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps released a joint Unmanned Campaign Framework detailing how the sea services intend to design, build, test, and field unmanned aerial, surface, and subsurface vehicles to help execute the family of strategic and operational concepts that have issued forth from the Pentagon in recent years. These concepts bear titles like Triservice Maritime Strategy, Distributed Maritime Operations, and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations. The Unmanned Campaign Framework is a solid document, well worth any gimlet-eyed seafarer’s time.
Read the whole thing.
Accolades aside, the framework’s drafters commit one cardinal sin: they bury the lede. The lede is journalist-speak for the bottom line, or central message, in a piece of writing. Journalists put the bottom line up front to grab attention and to make sure they get their main point across even if the reader doesn’t read past the opener. Burying it deep within a text represents a missed opportunity to sway others. The Unmanned Campaign Framework’s authors disclose the lede only on page 27 of a 33-page document (not counting an appendix and glossary), and leave it encrusted in technospeak even then.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/04/an-unmanned-future-for-the-u-s-navy-and-marine-corps/
