The US Army has been given orders to Transform to ensure it is ready to defeat any adversary on a ever changing battlefield. ⬇️

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is directing sweeping transformational changes at the Army. In an April 30 memo to the secretary of the Army, Hegseth ordered a vast set of alterations to the service aimed at building a leaner and more lethal force that prioritizes defending the homeland and deterring China in the Indo-Pacific.”

“Battlefields across the world are changing at a rapid pace. Autonomous systems are becoming more lethal and less expensive. Sensors and decoys are everywhere. Dual-use technologies are continuously evolving and outpacing our processes to defeat them. To maintain our edge on the battlefield, our Army will transform to a leaner, more lethal force by adapting how we fight, train, organize, and buy equipment.”

1️⃣ Deliver critical warfighting capabilities.  “Agile funding, which shifts from program-centric to capability-based portfolios, will increase timely equipment fielding and accelerate innovation cycles.”

2️⃣ Optimise Force Structures. “Our focus is on filling combat formations with Soldiers. Every role must sharpen the spear or be cut away”

3️⃣ Eliminate Waste and Obsolete Programs. “We will also continue to cancel programs that deliver dated, late-to-need, overpriced, or difficult-to-maintain capabilities. Yesterday’s weapons will not win tomorrow’s wars.”

“It’s well past time to inject some outside rationality into how Australia’s defence organisation works. Unless we want to watch the continued slow decline of Australia’s military as its cost grows, there’s a desperate need to bring some of the ways that industry outside the protected defence sector bubble works to our military. Taxpayers will keep pouring more and more money into Defence and getting less and less for it.”