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Aging: New Weapons Too Expensive to Modernize Forces on a Timely Basis.
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Plan: Envisions 2nd Generation War of Attrition in Distant Future
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JV-2010/RMA: More Complexity, Based on Old Mechanistic Ideas
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Target-Based Automated SEE-DECIDE-STRIKE Cycle is New Version of Igloo White (1960s), Quick Strike Surveillance-Recce (1970s), Assault Breaker (late 1970s) |
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Increased Emphasis on Precision Wpns. Which Require Sharp Distinctions & Precise Knowledge |
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New Weapons & Force Structure: Tech. & Ideas Are Legacies of Cold War Thinking
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Army: Smaller Version of Heavy Force Designed to Fight on North German Plain
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Comanche, Crusader, Digitization, and New Generation of “Fire & Forget PGMs. |
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Increased Emphasis on Active Force Rather than Shift to Reserves |
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Air Force: Smaller Version of Force Configured for Bombing of “Strategic” Infrastructure & Interdicting Tank-Heavy Ground Forces
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Continued Emphasis on Cold War Technologies (Stealthy F-22 & JSF, Adv. PGMs, Force Multipliers) |
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Less CAS & Dir. Supt of Army, But Increased Use of Space |
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Marginal Increases in Reserves |
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Navy: Smaller Version of Force Configured for Global War at Sea & Strategic Bombardment
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Surface Combatants Configured for Air Defense (Aegis) and Cruise Missile Attack (TLAM) |
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Air (F/A-18E/F & JSF) Configured for Deep Bombing |
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No Surface Fire Support / Sea-Based CAS to Support Marines in 3rd Generation Littoral Operations |
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Attack Submarines Configured for Open Ocean Warfare (NSSN) & Cruise Missile Attack (TLAM) |
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Marine Corps: Only Service to Adopt 3rd Generation Warfare as Doctrine (1980s)
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Struggling to Evolve Doctrinal Response to End of Cold War - OMFTS & Urban Warfare |
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But Modernizing with High-Cost Weapons that are Legacies of Cold War (JSF / V-22 / AAAV) |
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