Improving Force Development Within the U.S. Department of Defense: Diagnosis and Potential Prescriptions

For several years now, in wargames depicting future hypothetical conflicts against the nation's most capable adversaries, programmed U.S. forces repeatedly have failed to achieve their primary operational objectives and suffered heavy losses in doing so. There is an urgency to the need to modernize U.S. military capabilities and operational concepts. This Perspective examines how things got to this point and what can be done about it.