*** Opinion ***
In the post-9/11 World:
- The United States needs the capability to
- Counter new, emerging concepts and threats while
- Retaining the overmatch to deter existing, conventional capabilities.
- Relative to extant U.S. warfighting capabilities, this requires:
- Strategic agility in hours/days, not weeks/months;
- Joint netted lethality in close combat; and
- Combined and noncombatant survivability in complex terrain.
- To achieve national security objectives over the long haul:
- The suitability of total DOTMLPF solutions (life-cycle ownership) and
- The time to field capabilities must improve.