"RIP Air-Sea Battle?" Topic

"Last week, the defense media broke the news that the Pentagon's "Air-Sea Battle" concept is being renamed and absorbed into a broader multiservice effort to develop a "Joint Concept for Access and Maneuver in the Global Commons" or JAM-GC. Individual news reports have used a variety of verbs to describe what is happening to Air Sea Battle, but the headline of the first article was also the most blunt. "DoD Kills Air-Sea Battle," it said—and I fear it might be right. Maybe it is just a name change, but I am concerned that incorporating "the concept formerly known as Air-Sea Battle" into the highly bureaucratic joint concept development process could stifle innovation and dilute the concept's focus.

If Air-Sea Battle has indeed been killed, it would seem appropriate to mark its passing by reflecting on the life and death of ASB: what it accomplished, what remains to be done, and what we should learn from its fate. Such a eulogy may well be premature. I hope it is, and that the concept's development will continue and benefit, like Tom Sawyer, from the discussion and debate resulting from the news of its demise. With that objective in mind, I offer my personal thoughts on the concept below…"
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Amicalement
Armand

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Oh boy, the Pentagon's got a new buzzword! I wonder what kind of stuff they're trying to convince Congress to by this time?