ASB recommends new advanced operating concepts to support 'Asia pivot'

By Jason Sherman / June 10, 2016 at 4:57 PM
An influential Pentagon advisory panel is recommending the Army overhaul the way it organizes and equips troops for long-haul deployments as well as expeditionary operations, calling on the service to consider two dozen new "enablers" -- including technologies -- and four new operating concepts that it argues will facilitate "decisive" strategic and expeditionary maneuver capabilities in 2025. The Army Science Board -- in a study commissioned in March 2014, completed earlier this year and not previously reported -- concludes the...

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