Sustaining Our People Advantage in Data Centric Warfare

The speed of change in all aspects of technology, from artificial intelligence to robotics, makes it difficult to predict what a conflict will look like in the future, but we can get close by first controlling for the knowns—the nature of war. The largest “known” for future war is that it will continue to remain a human endeavor.

Fortunately for the U.S. Army, our people are our number one asymmetric advantage. We have the best soldiers, noncommissioned officers, leaders, and commanders of any army in the world. Our priority must be to maintain this advantage, even while the character of war is in a period of rapid, disruptive change.