This is the first time in nearly 70 years where the Defense Department can craft a wholly new service with new pathways to buy and field equipment. At its core this means building a culture of risk acceptance and tolerance not avoidance.
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Joshua Huminski on April 05, 2021 at 6:01 AM
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In-person trials are starting up again.
In some states, judges never believed there was a pandemic. Those judges just barely slowed down.
In other states, judges experimented with Zoom trials.
But now, life is starting to open up again in a fair number of places.
I heard about a trial recently that made me think about a (possible) generational difference in the law. The trial was in-person. The trial lawyers were in one city, and the trial was 1,000 miles away; the lawyers would have to fly to the trial site. If folks were aggressive about it, they all could have had one, and some two, shots of the vaccine before they left. So the senior trial lawyer asked his team: “Who’s willing to fly to the trial site?”
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.