The result, however, is all manner of misplaced priorities and misguided decisions for the US military overall. The Army, for example, is set up to think about closing the kill chain primarily on land with its own ground forces, whereas the Navy is set up to think about doing so primarily at sea with its own maritime forces. But if the fastest and most effective way to close the kill chain against enemy ships is with land-based capabilities—or, better yet, a mixture of different services’ capabilities—those kinds of solutions do not arise easily or naturally in the Pentagon because the
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