Mathew Cox, Defense Tech/Military.com: General: Army Needs More Futurists to Better Predict Conflict
Army officials, analysts and authors met Wednesday to try to improve the U.S. military's poor track record of predicting future conflict.
Maj. Gen. William Hix, director of strategy, plans and policy for the office of the U.S. Army's Deputy Chief of Staff G-3/5/7, said, "Prediction is fraught with danger," at the Atlantic Council's U.S. Army Futures Forum.
Throughout history, there have been many "sad examples" of the tendency of people to optimistically embrace the idea of decisive opening strikes and quick finishes for war, Hix said.
"Most often, those predictions have been hugely wrong and, in some cases, resulted in catastrophe," he said.
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WNU Editor: This is what I try to do in this blog .... notice and post events and trends that may lead to future conflicts. Some of it is easy to predict .... some of it is not.
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