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Hagel: US needs game-changing military innovation

SIMI VALLEY - Wary of a more muscular Russia and China, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday the Pentagon will make a new push for fresh thinking about how the US can keep and extend its military superiority despite tighter budgets and 13 years of war.

 

Hagel announced a "defense innovation initiative" that he likened to historic and successful campaigns during the Cold War to offset military advantages of US adversaries. "We must change the way we innovate, operate and do business," he told a defense forum.

 

In a memo to Pentagon leaders in which be outlined the initiative, Hagel said the US must not lose its commanding edge in military technology.

 

"While we have been engaged in two large land-mass wars over the last 13 years, potential adversaries have been modernizing their militaries, developing and proliferating disruptive capabilities across the spectrum of conflict. This represents a clear and growing challenge to our military power," he wrote.

 


פרסום ראשון: 11.16.14, 09:40