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The Army is continuing to grow a program that partners with civilian hospitals and trauma centers to give combat medics more hands-on experience, the Army surgeon general said.
“Our program is growing tremendously within the Army,” Lt. Gen. R. Scott Dingle told the House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on defense March 5.
Artificial intelligence has broad military applications, but effectiveness on land combat systems could be limited in the opening stages of the next war, warns a new essay from the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare.
Armor and engineer basic training will be extended to 22 weeks in a pilot program that begins in January, and the longer training is likely to be expanded to other combat arms specialties in the next two fiscal years, said Maj. Gen. Gary Brito, commander of the Army’s Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning, Ga.
Technology has advanced combat trauma care, but the skills of medics, nurses and surgeons will continue to have the greatest impact on prolonged battlefield care, said Lt. Gen. Nadja Y. West, surgeon general of the Army and commander of the U.S. Army Medical Command.
The Army needs to think big when preparing for future combat, a former DoD policy and force structure planner told a House committee.
A leading military strategist warns that the Army is not prepared to face competent, well-armed adversaries, despite significant combat experience gained against irregular forces and equipment brought into service since 9/11.
New industry designs to enhance soldier protection are one of the key exhibit hall themes during this week’s Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition.
While the main effort is for U.S. forces to serve as trainers and advisers of Afghan forces, dangerous assignments will continue.
The rotary wing aircraft of tomorrow will fly farther and faster, carry heavier payloads, have far more maneuverability and lethality, and be much smarter than today’s helicopters—and that tomorrow isn’t far off, according to several experts.
April 24, 2017
The military campaign to defeat the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria is on track, but the top U.S. general in the region says the U.S. faces another busy and challenging year because the Middle East remains “the global epicenter for terrorism and violent Islamist extremism.”