Army vice chief: Future systems should come with a back-up plan

By Ashley Tressel / April 20, 2018 at 4:53 PM
The Army's second in command is cautioning against the service becoming too dependent on technology as it heads into the future battlefield. Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville at New America's Future of War Conference this month said the service's mission is to develop "simple," "inexpensive" systems for all domains and be prepared if an adversary renders a future system incapable of performing. While putting unmanned systems "at the tip of the spear" will increase the safety of the...

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