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This 5 page paper discusses two efforts the U.S. military has made to transform its operations. It concentrates on changes in communications and logistics. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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efforts to transform the U.S. military, the factors that prompted the need to transform, key policies of the transformation, the forces that shaped the transformation, and how well that transformation
has been instituted. Discussion Two aspects of the military that needed transformation / key factors necessitating transformation. The two areas that will be considered are communications and logistics. Its probably
a glimpse of the obvious to state that changes in warfare necessitate changes in those who wage war, but whats not so obvious is the speed with which warfare itself
has changed. Military historians generally agree that the beginning of the American Civil War was fought using tactics familiar from centuries of conflict: masses of men struggling against each other,
usually with artillery bombardment preceding the close combat. But by the end of the Civil War, the weapons had outstripped the tactics-it was the more powerful rifles and their ammunition
that caused the tremendous carnage. Tactics had to change to meet the new reality. Its probably fair to say that once those changes had occurred, they carried the American military
through two world wars, Korea and Vietnam. Consider that during World War II, American troops landed on enemy beaches after those beaches had been bombarded. In effect, the equipment was
more refined, the weapons more powerful with airplanes added to the mix, but it was still a question of masses of men struggling against each other after a "softening up"
round of artillery fire. But things began to change after Vietnam, when global conflict was replaced, for lack of a better word, by a series of "brush fire" or guerrilla
wars. These conflicts broke out quickly, were local, and ended swiftly as well. They were fought in places like Lebanon, Somalia and Panama, and they demanded a different kind of
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