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AUSA Global: Army lethality focus on ‘Close Combat 100,000’

31st March 2018 - 19:19 GMT | by Scott Gourley in Huntsville

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As one of the US Amy’s new ‘6 + 2’ cross functional teams (CFT) the Soldier Lethality CFT is focusing its initial efforts on that slice of the overall army that would be expected to close with and kill enemy forces.

Offering what he termed ‘the bottom line’ on soldier lethality enhancement efforts, Gen Stephen Townsend, commander of US Army Training and Doctrine Command, asserted: ‘US close combat soldiers – and marines – in our squads and our platoons, do not “overmatch” our opponents.’

Townsend said that potential adversaries ‘have access to weapons and technology that enable them to

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Scott Gourley is a US-based writer on defence and security issues. A former US Army …

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