The United States needs to build a different kind of military. And we cannot afford to repeat recent mistakes. Our focus must be on building and buying integrated networks of kill chains, not individual platforms and systems. We need to buy outcomes, not things. Those military things will matter less than the broader battle network that they add up to and its ability to facilitate human understanding, decision, and action. If we think about the problem this way, we can ask the right questions: How would we build the US military differently? What attributes should it have?
