by Helene Cooper
The platoon of Army Special Operations soldiers was on a routine black patrol inward eastern Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan when i of them of a abrupt opened burn downwards on what looked to the others to live on a bush. The bush, it turned out, had been obscuring a militant fighter. He was detectable only to the i platoon fellow member wearing epitome black vision goggles that could disclose rut signatures — a happenstance that Army officials order likely saved many lives. That incident took house inward 2015. Three years later, soldiers inward the plain notwithstanding create non need maintain the novel black vision goggles, too that is merely i example of a procedure that tin sack need maintain a decade to larn novel weapons from the lab to the hands of troops. Worried close that lag, the Army is creating a novel too decidedly unconventional division to address it: the Futures Command…
So on March 26, elevation Army leaders volition go to Huntsville, Ala., to denote details of their conception for the Futures Command, which volition focus exclusively on developing novel weapons too getting them “downrange” faster. The doors of the ascendency are expected to opened upwards yesteryear the terminate of July, too it is supposed to live on fully operational a yr after that…
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