Being stuck in yesterday’s thinking isn’t a new problem for the U.S. military. In 1898, Alfred Mahan said that “no service can or should be expected to reform itself.” Fast-forward to the 1950s and Curtis LeMay, ever the strategic bombing evangelist, dismissed ICBMs as “f—king firecrackers.” And up until a decade or so ago, the […]
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