The Army -- seeking bold, transformational ideas to give its future force a disruptive advantage against potential adversaries -- has commissioned an influential advisory panel with six new studies to recommend new weapon systems and operational concepts, an undertaking that appears to advance a new Pentagon program to re-energize conventional deterrence against China and Russia. On Jan. 4, then-acting Army Secretary Eric Fanning commissioned James Tegnelia, chairman of the Army Science Board, to conduct a study on " Disruptive Innovative...
