Army takes wait-and-see stance on Pentagon's 'Third Offset' strategy

By Sebastian Sprenger / December 21, 2015 at 10:30 AM
The Army's chief of staff said many of the technologies wrapped up in the Defense Department's "third offset strategy" are still unrealistic for widespread application today, emphasizing that the ground service would retain the final say about what new concepts are worth adopting. Gen. Mark Milley's comments came as Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work has begun unveiling exactly what Pentagon leaders have in mind in preparing a new kind of technology-aided paradigm shift in combat that is supposedly similar in...

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