Industry Perspective: Creating a New Paradigm for U.S. Force Overmatch
4/1/2022
By Wahid Nawabi
Since the end of World War II, the United States has achieved force overmatch by deploying a range of very large, highly complex and extremely expensive assets that ranged from fighter jets and aircraft carriers to satellites and submarines.
And while this overmatch did not always translate into victory on the battlefield, it was undeniably effective in containing the Soviet threat and bringing the Cold War to an end.
Today, this overmatch is no longer absolute, thanks to the rise of peer and near-peer adversaries. If the United States is to continue to dominate the battle space, the military must think creatively about new ways of achieving overmatch, reducing its reliance on large, expensive and vulnerable military assets, and prioritizing resiliency, flexibility and interoperability.
In the conflicts of the 21st century, victory is as likely to come from smaller and more distributed fighting units unleashing swarms of lethal drones with extremely high levels of precision as it is from a stealth bomber or aircraft carrier a thousand miles away.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/4/1/creating-a-new-paradigm-for-us-force-overmatch
