“Each sailor has Rifleman” has been a corps of the body for decades, but war has changed.
The navies in Future Wars could be found as well to be both well known in the drone war and in their rifles, a marine general at the Secystal Air and Space, an annual military and industrial rally on Tuesday.
A deeply rooted institutional belief for all the navies is “each navy in Rifleman,” said Lieutenant-General Benjamin Watson, who serves as a general command of education and the command of education, the entity which oversees the marine preparation for future war.
This well -known mantra refers to the idea that each navy must have a level of benchmark for combat competence and a combatant mentality, whether they serve as an infantryman or as an administrative specialist. The idea is that any navy, whatever its role, can pick up a rifle and be effective in war.
But a growing number of marine in the future could see their dependence on rifle as an additional to drones and technologies.
“Now, if you use technology, you know that the same navy can be just as deadly at beaches at 15, 20, kilometers and beyond,” he said.
New technology and change of war
General’s comments on the symposium this week are presented on the heels of a new body effort to constitute its offensive capacities of small-Uas with an “nascent” team of attack drones, which will focus on the absorption of lessons learned from the drone war in Ukraine and the implementation of training efforts for the rest of the force.
Being able to draw a target at 500 meters will always be important for the navies, added Watson, referring to the maximum efficient beach against small targets for rifles M16 and M4 is issued.
But new types of war question the concepts of the past combat experience of the body. Troops will have to imagine a future without more recent guarantees, such as the “Golden Hour” for medical care and air superiority.
An American navy is preparing a target of simulated drones during a range of aircraft systems aimlessly for the point. Lance CPL. Kendrick Jackson, Us Marine Corps
New technologies and new threats are changing the combat space significantly. “It is not a large part to say that we will never fight without what we have traditionally known under the name of air superiority, at least not persistently,” said Watson, referring to the insurance of air power which was almost omnipresent for American troops throughout the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Watson also underlined another idea than other high -level marine leaders married in the middle of the concerns of constant surveillance – by focusing on the management of individual and unitary signatures.
“There has been a lot of basic efforts at the marine division during the management of the signature,” he said.
These include efforts to train the navies on the management of physical signature, such as new types of camouflage net and heat control. But the navies will also have to tackle how they could appear to an enemy on the electromagnetic spectrum and how they can survive while fighting.
Last month, for example, the commander of the Marine Corps, General Eric Smith, appeared in an edifying video on X Warning Marines dangers to rely on their mobile phones near combat areas.
The easily available and user -friendly technology that can detect the presence of mobile phones, thus exposing an enemy fire unit, has become more and more common. And the same goes for other unrelated systems and new forms of electronic war.
Previous generations of fighters may have participated in one or two grenades attached to their vests, said Watson. “Now we come to a point where they will be able to wear a guided hand grenade, throw it in the air with an ability to stroll, and something behind them will be able to guide this,” he said.
“Think about how you would have to defend yourself against this as we change our tactics,” said the general.
Technological solutions could be useful, but Watson has warned that the latest technology will not solve all the problems. The classic fundamentals of the battlefield applied to contemporary war – known as “tactics, technical, procedures” – will do so.
But even with such an approach, more troops will have to face an unprecedented change of mentality. “The first thing is to put everyone’s head in the right space,” said Watson, “who is the idea that you are looked at all the time.”
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