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McMaster: Army Sorely Needs To Build New Combat Vehicles

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McMaster: Army Sorely Needs To Build New Combat Vehicles
A U.S. Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams tank from 1st Tank Battalion, Twenty-Nine Palms, California, sits entrenched in a defensive position during Clear, Hold, Build Exercise (CHBX) 3, one of several pre-deployment training exercises during Enhanced Mojave Viper held on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twenty-Nine Palms, California, on Sept. 1, 2010. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Orlando Perez/Released)

The Army needs to build new combat vehicles that integrate current and future technologies if it wants to regain the technological overmatch it may have already lost against peer competitors, said Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, director of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Army Capabilities Integration Center.“We are gravely underinvested in close combat overmatch, in combat vehicles,” McMaster said on Tuesday at a one-day conference on Army platforms hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army at its headquarters…

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