The U.S. military will need to change the mix of standoff and direct-attack precision weapons if it is to maintain affordable superiority in strike warfare, analysts said.
Speaking to reporters in a June 23 pre-briefing about a new report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank, defense analysts Mark Gunzinger and Bryan Clark discussed their new report “Sustaining America’s Precision Strike Advantage.”
The analysts said the traditional U.S. advantage in strike weapon capabilities could diminish unless actions are taken to counter the increasing capabilities of potential nation-state adversaries and even non-state adversaries, who are working to attack every step in the U.S. kill chain: find, fix, track, target, engage and assess.