The U.S. Military Is Preparing to Fight the Last War — A Retired Rear Adm. Says Every War Plan Is Now Obsolete

The U.S. Military Is Preparing to Fight the Last War — A Retired Rear Adm. Says Every War Plan Is Now Obsolete

Retired Rear Adm. Lorin Selby — who served 37 years as a U.S. Navy submarine warfare officer and as the 26th Chief of Naval Research — says every U.S. military war plan is obsolete. Selby wrote that every OPLAN, CONPLAN, and campaign design “was built on assumptions that are no longer true.” Selby said the target sets, kill chains, and “the very physics of the battlefield” have changed. The U.S. Military Faces a Brutal Reality  GJ-11 Drone. Imag…