The Army has to make a "grounded projection into the near future," rather than searching for elusive "leap-ahead technologies," says the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center. During a Nov. 30 forum hosted by the Foreign Policy Institute, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, both a historian and the Army's leading futurist, warned of the perils of ignoring the lessons of the past and making ill-informed decisions about the future. The study of history, he said, can "serve as a corrective...
