Breitbart: Army Secretary Mark Esper opened the annual Association of the U.S. Army conference on Monday ushering in a “renaissance” of the Army, calling for reform in how the Army prepares to fight future wars.
“Seventeen consecutive years of irregular war, extended periods of budget uncertainty, and then an increasingly complex security environment have eroded our competitive edge. Our adversaries, meanwhile, have taken advantage of this to better their positions,” Esper said at the conference.
“In response, we are moving out across a number of fronts, to improve readiness, increase lethality, and modernize the force,” he said. “These efforts amount to nothing short of an Army renaissance — a renaissance that represents a renewal in how the Army envisions and prepares for future conflict.”
Esper said as part of this renaissance, the Army has extended initial training for infantry soldiers by two months and will do the same for the armor and engineer branches and others in the future. The Army has also instituted the Army Combat Fitness Test, which helps soldiers better train for combat than the current test.
“The future battlefield will be unrelenting,” Esper said. “So our force, regardless of age or gender, must be physically and mentally tough.”
He said the Army is also developing a new generation of weapons and equipment to “guarantee overmatch for years to come,” he said. more
Tell it to Congress. They have their thumb up an outer Solar system planet’s ass.
Funny he failed to mention years of social engineering that eroded, however lightly, the combat edge of the force.
SPACE FORCE LEADS THE WAY!!!!
But how will you accommodate the boys who pretend to be girls? What about muslime outreach? Will there be enough lesbian transsexual faggots to command the troops?
Anonymous …. yes yes…..obams EXPERIMENT, social engineering , making students march in high heel ….fn jerk
Start by repealing every one of Oblowme’s mandates. Thoroughly review and prepare if necessary, to replace all flag officers promoted on gay Kenyan commie’s watch.
Make Army Great Again!
Get rid of obama’s political appointments of social justice, non-combat, paper pushing, prissy, officer corps.
A good place to nip it in the bud is West Point.
Close observation indicates that both Canoe U. and the Zoomie Trade School are in dire need of shearing away politically motivated force diminisher doctrine, as well.
TWD
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“zoomie trade school”
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I’M WITH BURR! SPACE FORCE!
SPACE FORCE!!!!! PEW!PEW!PEW! YEAAARRRGH!!!!
FIRE MAIN CANNONS!!!!
RAISE FRONT DEFLECTOR SCREEN!!!!
PORKINS!!! HANG ON!!!
@Aaron Burr October 9, 2018 at 8:23 pm
“PORKINS!!! HANG ON!!!”?
So, no change in physical requirements?
In, spaaa-aaa-ce!
Under the shithead Leftists, the purpose of our armed forces was more social engineering experimentation than battlefield readiness.
This change in force philosophy is yet one more way America is now winning.