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A paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team passes before the rising sun during a patrol into a village 4 May
2012 in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The equipment on his back is used to block remotely detonated improvised explosive devices. (Photo
by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod, U.S. Army)

New Business Practices
for Army Acquisition
Lt. Col. Rafael Rodriguez, U.S. Army
Maj. William Shoemate, U.S. Army
Maj. Justin Barnes, U.S. Army
Karen Burke

C

hief of Staff of the Army (CSA) Gen. Mark A.
Milley has stated that U.S. military superiority
is disappearing and that improved strategic
planning is needed to maintain qualitative dominance
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beyond 2025.1 Milley describes a future force structure
based mainly on smaller units acting in disaggregated
teams that can combine into larger formations so the
Army can meet the demands of asymmetrical, peer,
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