What is more, Russian doctrine holds that such weapons are useable and probably decisive in warfighting.
Military leaders have been predicting for years that information technology will produce huge gains in warfighting capability.
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The best way to judge the budget priorities is to see how they compare with actual warfighting experience.
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Without it, production would fall and the soldiers at the front would be deprived of necessary warfighting materials.
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First, their findings tend to be kept secret, so outsiders seldom get a precise idea of what warfighting challenges were encountered.
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The plane must be able to operate autonomously in some warfighting scenarios.
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It was not so long ago that each of the armed forces was striving for self-sufficiency in warfighting, an expensive and duplicative process.
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Alexander as head of its new Cyber Command, a sign that the US is deadly serious about extending its warfighting capabilities to cyberspace.
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Unfortunately, all these machinations have little to do with the increasingly lethal warfighting environment in which Marines will have to operate in the future.
This variant of the two-MRC construct made a particular difference in the amount of airlift and sealift and the investments required in critical warfighting enablers.
The Navy organizes its most capable warfighting units around those vessels, each of which hosts about 90 fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft launched from four-acre flight decks.
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Some experts have questioned whether mobile ad-hoc networks can work reliably in a warfighting environment, but the news so far from testing of Army versions is very positive.
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The good news for the program is that it has surmounted earlier reliability problems and now looks to be by far the best amphibious warfighting vehicle ever built.
Two of the three new surface combatants that the Navy announced in 2001 have been canceled, and the third is still a long way from proving its warfighting utility.
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This warfighting doctrine advocates the advances in mobility and range be used to bypass the typical "storming of the beach" and instead deliver forces directly to the objective area.
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This comes less than 24 hours after McConnell spoke on behalf of BAH at the National Space Symposium, at which the USAF put its case for increased cyber warfighting capabilities.
Gates said at the time that the F-22 was not relevant to counterinsurgency campaigns in Southwest Asia or to the most likely warfighting scenarios the joint force would face in the future.
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To ensure we have the resources to prepare for the future, and to address the emerging challenges to homeland security, we needed a more realistic and balanced assessment of our near-term warfighting needs.
However, strategists broaden IW attacks beyond warfighting purposes.
Although military leaders were quick to grasp the warfighting potential of airplanes after the Wright Brothers proved the feasibility of flight, it took decades before they were convinced there should be a separate military service dedicated to air power.
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However, it also delivers less warfighting capability, because one of its key innovations is to locate mission systems on a series of interchangeable modules that can be quickly installed or removed depending on what role the warship is expected to execute.
Vern Clark, the service invented a smaller, cheaper warship called the Littoral Combat Ship that broke the mold on naval design and acquisition while potentially offering a warfighting system better suited to emerging threats than the legacy vessels already in the fleet.
For example, at the same time that the Navy has stood up a cyber command to protect its warfighting nets, it has begun implementing a new information architecture called the Next Generation Enterprise Network likely to be more vulnerable to hackers and spies.
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When the full commission meets to decide what it will or will not propose in the defense arena, perhaps it should be content to simply identify budgetary targets for reductions rather than getting bogged down in the arcana of trading off warfighting strategies and capabilities.
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He has fought tenaciously to ensure that his men and women have the kit they need to do the surpassingly hard things Marines are routinely asked to do - from urban warfighting in Fallujah to rapid humanitarian relief in flood-ravaged Pakistan, and everything in between.
It is outrageous that one or two senators' votes may make the difference between an initiative that will be, at the very best, a new and difficult management burden for a military already overtaxed with its warfighting responsiblities, and that may well actually prove to be devasting for the military.
Examples of an expeditionary approach to warfighting that drew upon such infrastructure include Kosovo, a case of power projection within a region, in pursuit of regional stability and in concert with regional allies, and Afghanistan, a case of global power projection, in which forces flowed into Central Asia from US, European, and Asian theaters.
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There was a brief thaw in relations when the Cold War ended, because with the Red Navy gone the U.S. Navy needed to highlight its relevance to fighting ashore, but the more common pattern is for the Navy to constantly question the requirement for Marine assets like vertical-takeoff jets and maritime prepositioning ships (which store warfighting supplies in likely areas of conflict).
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