Daniel P. Driscoll

They knock down the door, they get a stronghold right inside the building.

And then they spend like 15 minutes holding that stronghold and sending drones in to check all of these different rooms.

And it's completely changed their TTPs.

And I don't know that that's right for the Army, but at least we are now getting to mix in this new set of skillset, this new asset that we as an Army desperately know we need and we know.

that when you look at what conflict looks like around the world right now, it is moving in that direction that we are over-indexed on a set of human beings like me that are pretty decent with a rucksack, pretty decent with hardware, but are pretty soft on the digital skills.

And balancing that out with our new recruits is just an amazing asset for our nation.

So what it is not is, it is not like if you think of our most elite units from our time in, they'd come in low on Blackhawks quietly, quickly.

They'd get dropped off a click or two from the objective.

They would come up on the house.

They would come up on the objective.

They would room clear it with

like a choreography and a violence of action that was just like majestic, they would nearly always accomplish the mission and be gone quickly.

When you talk to them today, that Black Hawk is not getting in unseen.

There's acoustic sensors that hear it miles out.

When they land, we, the United States Army, have owned the night for a very long time.

We now have infrared drones that are out there watching everything, sneaking up on the objective quietly when there's a drone overhead with ammunition.

just doesn't really work anymore.

And so what we are having to do is reinvent ourselves from both that small specific conflict and specific issue to this idea that we haven't really faced a peer in conflict in a very long time as a nation

And going to war in Afghanistan or Iraq looks very different than what a long-term contested environment would look like 6,000 miles from our homeland.

It just requires a complete rethinking of how we're going to do it.