The precision revolution has forced a lot of the military to adapt and that precision is coming to infantry via technology. The infantry will have to adapt, too. Let's start getting ahead of that trend to how we adapt our infantry.
See "When Everyone Has Boresight Aim: Marine Infantry Must Train for High-Tech Combat," U.S. Naval Institute Blog, October 5, 2018. As I ask:
The May 1972 “Battle of the Bridges” in which U.S. aircraft destroyed targets that had long resisted dumb munitions announced the arrival of a new precision method of waging war that promised “If you can see it, you can hit it. If you can hit it, you can destroy it.” That was described as the first phase of a revolutionary change in the nature of warfare.[22] That battle won with expensive but effective “remotely piloted munitions” fired from expensive planes by expensively and extensively trained air crews has filtered down to the level of rifles carried by even ill-trained individual fighters. Will U.S. Marines be prepared to win on such a battlefield of tomorrow?
Which is nice. I've had some essays that I thought were sure-fire publication worthy rejected this last year. So my desire to move forward on other projects has been thwarted by the need to re-work them for future pitches.
