Light vehicle craze sweeps the Pentagon...

Thanks to Jonathan for the link.

via DefenseNews.

"By nature, when you're conducting combat search-and-rescue, you're not in a permissive environment," Reedy said. "You don't always have the ability to land an aircraft right by what you're going to do. Having a vehicle with some range and off-road mobility gives you that capability to do an off-set insertion and move to the objective without risking something catastrophic, an aircraft being shot down."

Read the entire story here.

I highlighted this portion of the story to point out a problem I see in the Pentagon.

They're making this shit up on the fly and have no real plan.  I mean seriously are they just sitting in classrooms, visiting Think Tanks and pulling nonsense out of their asses?

In this case they're talking about a non-permissive environment and they're going to go in by LIGHT vehicle, I'm assuming a small team, and successfully rescue a pilot?

Really?

Seriously?

The ENTIRE DoD needs to take a deep breath, wargame this stuff honestly (no set outcomes...I've seen that crap before) and see if these concepts work.  The USMC is going all in on Company Landing Teams and I have heard of no REAL testing of it.  They haven't sent it to 29 Palms or NTC to work it against a fictional opponent.

Doctrine first.  Procurement second.

These guys are stumbling in the dark.  Change for change sake seems to be their new God...being more effective on the battlefield is just a memory.