JADC2 and AI Should Enable Post-Pandemic Military Creativity, Not Replace It
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By Bryan Clark & Dan Patt
May 09, 2020
Experts say we are only at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that the United States and other large, complex societies have a long way to go before they can return to their level of activity before “Zoom-bombing†and “social distancing†entered the lexicon. It is increasingly clear, however, that DoD leaders in a post-pandemic fiscal environment will be under pressure to wring the best defense they can from tighter military budgets as economic recovery and debt servicing crowd out discretionary government spending.
With troops returning home from the Middle East, Congress and the next Presidential Administration may be tempted to redirect defense funding to other domestic needs, similar to the 1990s “peace dividend†harvested following the Cold War. Those savings were enabled in large part by reductions under the “Base Force†concept championed by Joint Chiefs Chairman GEN Colin Powell, which shrank U.S. military forces by about a quarter.
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