{"id":24552,"date":"2016-04-11T20:47:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T03:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/what-is-squad-x-and-how-much-will-it-change-the-u-s-army"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:20:11","slug":"what-is-squad-x-and-how-much-will-it-change-the-u-s-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/what-is-squad-x-and-how-much-will-it-change-the-u-s-army","title":{"rendered":"What is Squad X, and how much will it change the U.S. Army?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/great-debate\/\/files\/2016\/04\/or_90_axe-squadx-619-316.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice; Universal Soldier time.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>So Orlowski and the advanced research agency have their work cut out for them. Meanwhile Americans have plenty of reasons to be skeptical they\u2019ll succeed \u2014 and not just because the Pentagon has repeatedly failed to manage complex weapons programs without cost overruns and technical problems, the prime example being the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon launched Squad X in 2013, to solve longtime serious problems. A squad, which is roughly a dozen troops, is the smallest conventional military unit capable of fighting independently. A \u201cdismounted\u201d squad \u2014 meaning traveling on foot rather than in vehicles \u2014 usually carries rifles, grenades, a few machine guns and several radios. It depends on larger units for speedy transportation, heavy firepower and long-range communications.<\/p>\n<p>Today, and throughout recent history, squads have fought under major constraints. Squad members constantly struggle to keep track of each other and the enemy. They can only see what\u2019s in their direct line of sight \u2014 and can only shoot what they can see.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/great-debate\/2016\/04\/10\/what-is-squad-x-and-how-much-will-it-change-the-u-s-army\/\">http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/great-debate\/2016\/04\/10\/what-is-squ...-u-s-army\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice; Universal Soldier time. So Orlowski and the advanced research agency have their work cut out for them. Meanwhile Americans have plenty of reasons to be skeptical they\u2019ll succeed \u2014 and not just because the Pentagon has repeatedly failed to manage complex weapons programs without cost overruns and technical problems, the prime example being the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42591,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24552\/revisions\/42591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}