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July 25, 2018 | International, Aerospace, Naval, Land, C4ISR

Rebuilding America’s Military: Thinking About the Future

Dakota Wood

SUMMARY

America's military—engaged beyond capacity and in need of rebuilding—is at a crucial juncture. Its current “big-leap” approach to preparing for future conflict carries great risk in searching for revolutionary capabilities through force-wide commitments to major single-solution programs. The Heritage Foundation's Rebuilding America's Military Project (RAMP) recommends that the U.S. military instead adopt an iterative, experimentation-heavy approach that can achieve revolutionary outcomes at less risk through evolutionary improvements that build on each other until transformative tipping points are reached. Critical to this is a military culture that is immersed in the study of war and a force of sufficient capacity to prepare for the future while also handling current operational commitments.

https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/rebuilding-americas-military-thinking-about-the-future

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