"Will A ‘Digital Military’ Change The Way Wars Are Fought?" Topic

"According to General Jay Raymond, the head of the U.S. Space Force, America's newest military branch is also on its way to becoming the world's first fully digital armed service.

Rather than a Tron-esque idea of soldiers fighting virtually in a purely digital battlefield, what Raymond was referring to — previously laid out in a Space Force vision statement — is somewhat more prosaic, emphasizing the need for the new service to be interconnected and innovative.

In other words, the actual ambition is more or less to have a military service that works within the frameworks created by the current state of digital technology rather than adopting them piecemeal…"
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Before the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, we saw how a few thousand US soldiers and contractors with drones, surveillance tools, electronic interceptions, etc., coupled with deadly air-power and Afghan troops on the ground, could work together and be effective at keeping the Taliban at bay for years. Once this U.S. digital military presence was removed, the Afghan Army lost its advantage and fell apart very quickly….

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Of course.

Digital comms, datalinks, and remote targeting and launching of weaponry will make killing the enemy that much more effective and quick, as long as the communications lines and command and control remain secure and in place.

If that goes down, or gets compromised, then it is back to the olde way of doing things.

Possibly, but nothing gets "owned" until boots walk on it.

So new hi-tech weapons and devices changes how wars are fought. That has been the norm forever … E.g from a musket to a rifle with metal cartridges, MGs, Tanks, aircraft, etc.

Possibly, but nothing gets "owned" until boots walk on it.

Yes, I agree … a drone can't hold terrain very long by itself.

A blimp drone could.

We should be building those, and parking them high over Kabul, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and other conflict zones.

They should be able to stay on station for months, if not years, as long as the countries below do not have a credible air force. Our other drones and aircraft can help with that.

A blimp drone could.

IIRC they were[are ?] working on something like that. Regardless, unless they are well armed, they can't hold ground like Grunts can.

Of course for recon those would be great. But if we don't have aircraft/drones on station … We may miss the targets ?

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