The Future of Warfare: Preparing U.S. Military Forces for Competition and Contestation | GSF 2024 

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I take great comfort knowing they apply as much professional seriousness to their craft as they did to that weapons grade combover.

Thank you for this conversation. I appreciate all of you. Be Ready

God Bless the United States and all of our Brother Allies!! Glad we have such professionals in leadership in our military. If only we can give them as voters a good administration to work under 🤷🏼‍♂️

After seeing three wars in mine, my life is not entirely safe from people who never made war but wrote the history of those who waged war, we hope that the world does not forget your words to the survivors

Highly valuable content.

The real problem isn't US military readiness. It's political will. If there was a major war between the US and anyone else; it would be drastically different from what we're seeing in Ukraine.

This panel is a universe; 48 stars on one stage! Lots of horsepower with great dialog showcasing needs in the ever-changing war environment (including space). What has changed is the "look at my service" boasting, these great generals/admirals have modeled teamwork servants below them have always expected of our leaders. The last stage of team building is the Esprit stage (rarely seen), that's what I see in this conference. Thank you for showcasing current leadership of our military!

Congratulations to CIS for its analysis on U.S. Milatery: Competition and Contestation around the world in order to promote international security!!!

Part of it I felt relief and part of it was very scary, if you play it out in your mind. The one thing that is so apparent is the speed of change just keeps getting faster and faster. Really interesting talk.

This has been a really good program for me. I’m just a retired teacher but your speakers have addressed many concerns I’ve had looking at our current world. Please lease with UK forces with your shared wisdom

Great minds working together👍 very much appreciate to be an allied. Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰

These gentlemen are highly intelligent and well spoken. Our forces are in good hands and are highly capable. I agree completely with the comment about innovations in acquisition. Technology is moving so fast that equiping the fleet with new tech happens far to slow.

4:51 that’s like military equivalent of photobombing - were you jump into someone’s picture frame 🖼️ 😂

These guys are the reason I can sleep at night. Thank you for your service 🙏

Thank you🎉❤😊

Quality over Quantity Thankyou gentleman! ⭐️ for giving us All the Strategic hive mind that keeps us a step ahead We design weapons and strategies for taking out countries in a matter of months or weeks so when an enemy uses the lure approach with cheap bait to catch big fish we are the shark that you don't want on the end of your line 🙂 stay Awesome ⭐️

Practical innovation is really underrated

Yes! Sir

We would like to thank our Leaders and we hope that they would be proud of what they have accomplished

This video is ten times hundreds times better than the armchair general RU-vid channels. There's so much information valuable to adversaries that I'm surprised this video is even made public.

Thank you for your report.

THANKFUL

Unfortunately given the climate of things, Generals cannot be trusted anymore than the current sitting President.

God Bless!! Grateful !!

Fascinating! Hope you all can make this work well for whatever happens in the future.

Thankful

This is like watching a corporate board discuss and deliberate on business policies and operations. Here, they're discussing the business of War, cleverly termed "Competition and Contestation,"as if it's a normal human activity.

Very informative, thank you!

Vote!

What an honorable line up, makes me proud to be an American Citizen.

Yep, going back to my shy, conservative, silent self... thank you so much for this update

Assymmetric conflict with 4 main opponents. Ruskije, chin, ooran, north k town. We must be prepared.

Salute

Thanks for this. Funny and helpful.

Thanks for this presentation. I am Saint Lawrence with my cast. AKA Claribel Ramirez DeArellano.

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In conclusion were screwed

God bless

This was a great watch!

Trying to build a navy at home when we have no civilian shipbuilding industry is inevitably going to fail. The Japanese buy our aircraft we should let them sell us ships.

I would agree that we should tap into our own ship building capacity which will creates significant good paying jobs!

Outstanding content. Thanks for posting

Good stuff, thank you

God-bless America 🇺🇸

thats some panel of heavy hitters you have assembled here

I just learned that! Thanks

Thankful..

I sleep better knowing that these Brass are in command. I completely agree with their thinking. Salute to you all ....

Peace through strength.

I wish one of these guys would run for president

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I like all of these guys. Good luck America.

The Air Force general sounds like he is checked out!

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I wish that Indian Defense chiefs have a panel discussion as straight as this. Can CSIS organize a similar conference with India's Chief of Army, Navy and Airforce to understand the issues that Indian Defense organization is facing.

The "Big" issue facing the US is how bloated and expensive military procurement has become. In a world where China can churn out ships and arms at the rate it can currently, Vs what the USA's system can manage, that weight of numbers could be decisive? At the moment it looks like Ukraine is being used to eat western military supplies that are slow to be replenished. Meanwhile Russia/China and friends are easily out producing. It's a very worrying moment in history.

Protect the homeland, don't spread are troops around, most importantly stick to one fight ..

Finally real info thank you!!

We can make all these improvements, but if we don’t have military leaders who can see 6 inches in front of their faces, we end up exactly where we are. But it’s not fair to blame them, they’re a function of the cronyism, bureaucratic malfeasance, group think and political corruption. They don’t offer new insights, they mold their views to the blob. They’ve done well to maximize their wealth and benefits while eliminating their accountability. The disasters of Ukraine, the Afghanistan pull out, Syria, the Houthis, the embarrassment in the Sahel - no one has been fired, demoted, apologized, taken responsibility, nothing. Only the NCO’s and low ranking officers are held accountable.

our military is the source of our strength. spoken like a true warmonger.

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Thankful 😊❤

The USMC need a dedicated FSV (Centauro 2) to fill that gap left with the shelving of the M1

Must be tough for them, fighting goat herders.

That is what would have worked in the past! But now I'm in control ! My power with you had limits With me it's limitless!! I am one with the elements! My word Carry more power than anything

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The Admiral for the Navy dud say "this big fight that we're preparing for"?

25:00 the US Coast Guard is in the Persian Gulf? Where is the "US Coast" they are guarding exactly?

One to rule them all

OUR UNITED STATES 🇺🇸 MILITARY 🪖...

Did that showboating airforce officer just suggest "just in time shipping" for maintenance logistics? Lmao

Better start addressing the toxic woke culture and DEI policies if the standards are not going to be lowered.

24:44 bruhhh I forgot the coastguard was a branch! Dude was helping us remember 🤣🤣

Coast Guard: Hey house, we're here too! Also, first time to see Space Force class A....very Jerr Bruckheimer. Other than that, what a great conversation.

We can share between agency information, but the decision process sucks. Look at North Korea, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, Gaza. All predictable. 20 years, the problem has grown, decisions have not been made, and issues become state-sponsored terror.

I smell a lot of old people in power

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I like we focusing on building smaller ships, these ships can be supported by lzrger ships for bluewater, work on disributed neworks as a an effective larger ship, they are also more immune to long range missile attacks and can even decoy/tank/electronic counter measures. Larger ships are being effectively targeted by mini platforms sea drones and missiles so they looking more and more like juicy targets.

Churchill was an ethically bankrupt man (letting the Germans bomb Coventry without warning the residents springs to mind) and to hear Seth lionizing him is rather disgusting.

The only fear I have is domestic! I fear this country. I fear American institutions. There has never been a crisis that our government and our institutions didn't make worse for the citizens! Whatever Russia does will be nothing compared to what our government and institutions do to us. I'm afraid of our domestic institutions and government.

Thanks for this. Funny and helpful. 41:58. I agree the highest priority is “stable and predictable funding.” 45:00 Adms. Kilby and Poulin and the Crazyman need to discuss this issue. Crazyman likes ships. And likes idea of capabilities of allies in the fight. 1:09:30. From my current perch in Quincy, Massachusetts, it’s obvious that the watching was not only of others - there has been an empirical undercurrent.

Thats kinda hallarious, i don't know it just is...Keep the good work up, to make us all laugh....

This looks more intimidating than the G7

Best killers in the world 🌎 PROUD AMERICAN 🤣 oh well we’re born into this shit

good work

Good to know, thank you.

The futility and insanity of war. HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING? You gotta respect the Ruskies in their own front garden. At least Dr.Trump knows that much. No good being a sore loser, bc of Syria, by opening a front in Russia’s garden. That just says that you want to invade, or threaten to invade Russia. If you’re going to fight Russia, you should at least pick somewhere that’s more favourable for yourself. Saying, “But that just shows how powerful the USA is”, is complete nonsense. It just shows how powerfully in debt you are and getting more so. Russia isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan, it’s RUSSIA. They have ancient culture, are very intelligent and very very powerful in their own garden. They defeated Napoleon and Hitler’s land armies. They threatened the Japanese navy, sailing around the whole world to do so. Ok they lost that fight. But to even attempt it, shows their courage, determination and ingenuity. They put the first human in space and the first orbiting satellite. THIS IS RUSSIA! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? You’re jeopardising NATO and frittering lives away, for literally no benefit whatsoever, other than to get one up on Russia, bc of Syria. That’s not smart, it’s incredibly stupid and cold blooded, towards the innocent lives destroyed. I used to be against Ritter, Macgregor and co. But the more I think about it, after time going by. The more I’m coming to my senses and realising, they’ve got a dam good point. It might take longer than they say and they might not make their case, as well as could be, but their underlying message is the right one. War is pointless, futile, unnecessary and insane. It’s a fight that we don’t need to have, so why are we doing it? If a fight is on the cards, there’s much better ways, to go about it than this. Or try other methods, of containing any threats and challenges that are posed to the west. Russia and it’s allies leaders might even be acting like their worried, but really their laughing. Russia hasn’t sent its best military into Ukraine, this is its B team, or C team even. They wouldn’t be that foolish, in case a major war broke out directly with another major player. So this is all basically a great charade and a way of saving face, for Russia’s victory over the USA in Syria. I hope I’ve sufficiently laboured the point? Vote Trump = vote peace.

When you ask the military industrial complex how we should start peace, their answer is prepare for war

`Nice that they want to get started.

I wish I was invited to both contribute and ask questions that can change minds.

Damn, that air force general is running out of space to put his ribbons.

Do we have any cheap drones that can be programmed to intercept with a pay load??

Space, Air Force, Naval, Army, Marine, & Coast Guard......

Thanks To The Biden Administration For The Support Towards Ukraine!

Thanks Palantir for that

I have to admit I was rather impressed the general in the Army knew the OSI model...

Thank You, sirs. Remarks (imho, with all the respect): 1. The more one hides the tactical component, the harder it becomes to reassure neutral sides and civilians in your intentions, which can severely influence one's further operative capabilities. Thus perfectly unexpected attacks may apper as unwanted, as the totally expected one. 2. Indeed, the space race makes economies alive and thriving. However, there's no viable alternative to strategic diplomatic solutions assuring the Solar System's future, since nobody can deny external force risks and natural catastrophic tendencies. 3. To rephrase the old soldier's proverb: wars are something, and maneuvers are everything. 4. Platform and system level integration chains bring to end-users (commanders, in particular), along with the advantages mentioned, both the flexibility challenge, neural overload and rapid burnout dangers. 5. AI is not a panacea. It is a form of life. And for us, it's just the way to advance our potential, and transform the existential philosophy, including its military part. 6. Sure, everyone and everything is observable at some level and to some degree. The one denying this common sense may be instantly doomed. But then, the real struggle comes from the depth of soldiers' hearts and minds. How to camouflage the inner content of souls, and would that be worth the deal? Or should it bring another case of the Pyrrhic gains? Thank you for your attention.

What a diverse panel!

The biggest issue is that research, development, and procurement has bloated significantly as a part of the military budget that it is affecting the operational side in terms of budget for training, personnel, unit organization and strength. In addition, retention and recruiting is a issue when you cannot man units at close to full strength and have to shut down some units. We have seen the brigade combat terms lose their engineer and cavalry scouts. We need more brigade combat teams and we need some of them stationed forward especially in Europe permanently. It was a mistake to remove them from Europe. It also has placed great strain on our ABCT with this op temp.