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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 12, 2021 at 4:09 PM
Gen. Mike Murray
WASHINGTON: It’s crunch time for Army modernization, with almost two dozen high-priority programs scheduled to field tech to combat troops in the next four years. That means a major increase in costs – from science experiments to serial production – just as the budget is dropping, with the Army widely pegged as the big bill-payer.
Now, that fiscal crunch is not a foregone conclusion, emphasized the chief of Army Futures Command, Gen. John “Mike” Murray, at the annual McAleese defense conference. It “remains to be seen,” he said, whether the Army will “be the billpayer” and help fund the Navy, Air and Space Forces.
Gen. John Murray
In March, BD’s Sydney Freedberg and Theresa Hitchens sat down for an exclusive hour-long interview with Gen. John “Mike” Murray, chief of Army Futures Command: Click here for Part I, Part II, and Part III. There was so much good material in these interviews that we decided to print this extended excerpt, edited for length and clarity, focusing on the vital issue of Joint All Domain Command and Control.
A: China is absolutely taking primacy in terms of pacing threats. It’s really an operational defense that we like to call A2/AD or anti-access/area denial, because it’s designed to keep us out. You remember [now-retired Lt. Gen.] Eric Wesley, he used to describe it as a boxer using a jab: So if you’ve got reach, you use the jab to keep your opponent at bay and at a distance.