Retiring Pentagon Chief Says the Next War Won’t Resemble Any War Ever Fought Before

The character of warfare—tactics, strategies, weapons—is constantly evolving, steadily developing more lethal technologies, and continuously reacting to the shifting churn of political challenges and geo-strategic threats.
Armed forces that can swiftly, effectively incorporate technological advancements into war-fighting tactics will dominate the battlefields of the future, just as they always have, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley said.
Those that don’t, he said, will suffer the same fates as Western European nations did when the German military blended technologies into  combined-force tactics to unleash a new type of “blitzkrieg” warfare that overran much of the continent in a matter of weeks….}

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