"Miserable, Disobedient, and Victorious"

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https://breakingdefense.com/2016/10/miserable-disobedient-victorious-gen-milleys-future-us-soldier/

QuoteWASHINGTON: "On the future battlefield, if you stay in one place longer than two or three hours, you will be dead," Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says. "That obviously places demands on human endurance."

With units in constant motion far from friendly forces, "being surrounded will become the norm," continues Milley. There will no clear front line, no secure supply lines, no big bases like Bagram or Camp Victory with chow halls, air-conditioning, and showers. With enemy drones and sensors constantly on the hunt for targets, there won't even be time for four hours' unbroken sleep. So, says Milley, "being seriously miserable every single minute of every day will have to become a way of life."

Milley has warned before that "we are on the cusp of a fundamental change in the character of ground warfare,." (The nature of war remains eternally brutal and chaotic). But yesterday at the Association of the US Army's annual Eisenhower Luncheon, the notoriously blunt general laid out his vision of future combat in more and grimmer detail than I'd ever heard — detail that suggests he's informed by an intensifying program of secret wargames.

Milley envisions the Army destroying enemy sensors, air defenses, and land-based anti-ship missiles to open paths for the rest of the joint force. "Land-based forces now are going to have to penetrate denied areas to facilitate air and naval forces," Milley said. "This is exact opposite of what we have done for the last 70 years, where air and naval forces have enabled ground forces."

Soldiers will fight with everything from rifles and tanks to electronic jammers, computer viruses, and long-range missiles striking targets on the land, in the air, and even at sea. "The Army — yes, the Army — we're going to sink ships," Milley said, "(and) dominate the airspace above our units from enemy air and missile attack."

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Meh.  I've heard this kind of grandiose talk over and over since I started in DoD 30 years ago.

We are not good at predicting the next war.