Universal Soldier
While the Nation's military is steeped in tradition and change is lengthy and sometimes painful, the idea of a Universal Soldier (US) becomes more appealing as resources become scarcer. The idea? By unifying the armed services, you are able to reduce redundancies, standardize training, create more agile, adaptive teams deployable for specific missions. Within the Unified Command you have specialty areas where the best ...more »
While the Nation's military is steeped in tradition and change is lengthy and sometimes painful, the idea of a Universal Soldier (US) becomes more appealing as resources become scarcer. The idea? By unifying the armed services, you are able to reduce redundancies, standardize training, create more agile, adaptive teams deployable for specific missions. Within the Unified Command you have specialty areas where the best of each branch are selected to perform specific missions (air, ground or naval support etc.). Best practices are taken from each branch and adopted as the standard of training – the disparity between whose method is more effective, dwindling resources, uniform changes, TTPs, manuals – everything would be consolidated into one, streamlined organization. Every US (Universal Soldier) would be issued a standard ‘smart suit’ adaptable to the environment; trained to a national standard so senior leaders have more levity to plug-and-play individuals for specific missions; and a core of basic equipment and artillery every US is trained to employ. The greatest innovations develop not from where we were or are right now in the fight, but what the battlefield will look like in the future.
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