The Army and Marine Corps must figure out what kind of environments they will be fighting in over the next three decades or so and purchase ground vehicles that are best suited for that task, says a DC-based think-tank.
Yup, as the two ground services move to buy new fleets of armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, apmhibioust assault vehicles and replace their humvees during a time of limited funding, they must first figure out how they will use these shiny new toys before they commit to buying any one design, said Andrew Krepinevich, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments during a press conference this morning.
“We’re in a particularly dynamic environment right now, when you by vehicles, as we’ve seen, they tend to last ten, twenty, thirty years,” said Krepinevich.“So you have to think about the kinds of environments they’d be operating in over that timespan, not an easy thing to do. With an eye toward that, we’ve tried to identify some trends, and we came up with seven that ought to help inform thinking about what to buy, what not to buy,where to invest and so on/.../”