13 December 2025

How to Save the U.S. Army

Andrew Latham

The U.S. Army is misaligned with a battlefield transformed by drones, AI, and precision fires. Commanders now face total surveillance, compressed decision cycles, and logistics that are directly targeted.

-To stay relevant, the Army must treat AI as foundational to command-and-control, disperse and harden headquarters and supply nodes, and train units to fight under constant observation and degraded communications.

-Sustainment must become agile, predictive, and survivable under fire. Looking at Russia, China, and Iran, the author concludes that redesigning how the Army commands, maneuvers, and sustains is more urgent than buying the next marquee platform.
Drones, AI and Total Surveillance: Why the U.S. Army Must Reinvent Itself

The U.S. Army’s structure and organization are in a period of transition—one defined less by routine modernization cycles and more by combat experience and the unvarnished realities of modern land warfare.


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