Compass Points
… what should Congress do about the controversial Force Design program?
Author: Michael
Konstantin Toropin, Military.
Mike Gallagher, The Wall Street Journal
‘Energetics’—chemicals that propel and explode—gave the U.S. a battlefield edge for decades, but that advantage is eroding.
D-Fend Solutions is a winner in the Innovation category in the 2024 Army Technology Excellence Awards.
The Ukrainian counter-offensive in 2023 delivered a grim lesson in the brutal effectiveness of counter-mobility operations. Advancing Ukrainian forces found themselves in vast Russian minefields in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions, where in some places multiple anti-tank mines were stacked in deadly vertical layers. For many Ukrainian crews, survival came down to the superior resilience of Western-supplied armored vehicles. Anti-tank mines ended up playing a crucial role in impeding and eventually thwarting the Ukrainian effort to break the land bridge to Crimea.
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Have you ever heard the words, “Don’t be afraid”?
Maybe someone said it when you were a kid afraid of the dark, or as an adult facing something new. For many veterans, this fear changes. It’s the fear of failing in front of others. But here’s the truth: You don’t need to have everything perfect to succeed.
If you wait until everything is just right, you’ll miss your chance. Perfectionism stops progress. The fear of failing, or what others might think, holds us back. In the military, failure could be life-threatening.
On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers, 160th SOAR soldiers, Delta Force operators, Navy SEALs, and Air Force pararescuemen and combat controllers, collectively known as Task Force Ranger, engaged Somali militia fighters in the Battle of Mogadishu. Part of Operation Gothic Serpent, the effort to capture warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in response to his attacks on U.N. peacekeepers during the Somali Civil War, the raid to capture two Aidid lieutenants quickly devolved into some of the most intense U.S. military combat since the Vietnam War.
Since she entered U.S. Transportation Command’s headquarters in 2021 as the first woman to ever lead that top mobility hub, Gen. Jackie Van Ovost was determined to enable new and advanced capabilities and a stronger underlying technology infrastructure to pave the way for more data-informed decisions and sharper, real-time views into military assets worldwide.