The US Army’s chief of staff has ideas on the force of the future
But can he scale up his clever experiments?
RANDY GEORGE joined the US Army in 1988. It had overhauled itself after the trauma of Vietnam. It had written a new doctrine, known as AirLand Battle, to defeat the Soviet Union in a war in Europe. And a few years later it would smash the Iraqi army in the first Gulf war, a conflict in which General George, as he is today, served as a young lieutenant. He is now in charge of that same army, and wants to reinvent it for a new age—not once, but continuously.
Checks and Balance newsletter: J.D. Vance and the politics of storytelling
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The death penalty is disappearing in America
Juries are less willing to impose capital punishment
America’s growing row over policies for transgender prisoners
Some women’s groups argue that transferring them puts female inmates at risk
What J.D. Vance is learning from Donald Trump
The vice-presidential candidate is devising his own tactics for bending the truth
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Kamala Harris is outspending Donald Trump. Will it matter?
The Democratic nominee is raising many millions more than her opponent