Author: Michael

OUTPUT is a new streaming news feed on the CDM platform that challenges your thinking and gives you an over-the-horizon view. Hosted by ex-CIA operative and high-end banking executive John Ritchie and CDM’s own L. Todd Wood, a former special operations helicopter pilot, OUTPUT focuses on the most crucial headlines of the day and then deciphers it like an intelligence briefing. John and Todd provide invaluable insights and strategies as it brings you news from the edge. So, get empowered with the knowledge to become independent, confident and sovereign people. Now is the time for OUTPUT.

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The Pacific region is forcing the Army to be more intentional with its capabilities and employment.
This is one of the lessons distilled halfway through the rotation at the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center in Hawaii with 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division. That unit is one of three so-called transforming-in-contact units that is helping pioneer and innovate new tactics and employment of technology for the Army.
The brainchild of Chief of Staff Gen.

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As the Army continues to chart a path forward to modernize its network and outfit units with enhanced gear, officials are trying to figure out how to create flexibility for commanders with variations of equipment.
In a paradigm shift across several portfolio areas, the service is getting away from so-called pure fleeting, meaning the entire Army won’t get all the same gear. This is necessitated by differences in unit makeup, missions and environments that forces will be operating in.
Such is true for the network as well.

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