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"My central claim is that innovation is more likely to weaken a service's effectiveness when growing security commitments outstrip shrinking resources. This wide commitment-resource gap exerts pressures to innovate in ways that cannibalize traditional capabilities before beliefs about the effectiveness of new ones are justified. When wartime comes, not only has the service lost proficiency in those older capabilities, but the new capability under delivers, " - Dangerous Changes: When Military Innovation Harms Combat Effectiveness by Kendrick Kuo

Mr. Kuo succinctly captures the problem with the FD2030 brand's version of innovation and change management.

Thank you to BGen Hayes and BGen McAbee for putting this in our field of view.

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