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U.S. Army wants to think like a Tech Company (army.mil)
4 points by geox on Aug 29, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Actual headline:

> Is the Army ready to think like a Tech Company? Why the service needs to value coding the same way as shooting

First reaction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Second reaction - Presumably the article is mostly aimed at military insiders. (Vs. tech-industry folks, whose first reactions were probably laughter.) Rather than dripping in tech/business buzzwords, perhaps the article should have noted the long (and decisively-losing, generally) military history of armies which "successfully" resisted the adaption of then-modern technologies.

Third reaction - Even in WWII, there were a lot of support elements and skills which any credible army valued highly. Armories, Combat Engineering, Communications, Cooks, Logistics, Maintenance, Medical, Training, Transportation, ...




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