This edge in quality, technology, and training is sometimes called overmatch.
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Especially so, as Novichoks appear to overmatch some NATO chemical defensive capabilities.
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The Army has a clear vision and a sound strategy to maintain battlefield overmatch.
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Now they're compelled to face the reality of America's vast overmatch of their forces.
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They obsess over "force projection" and "combat power overmatch," investing in things like the F-35.
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However, there exists no federal mechanism to incentivize or reward state and local funding for providing this overmatch capital.
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"Right now we are at parity with near peer competitors, and a sight upgrade will give us operational overmatch," Lt. Col.
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Frontline starters are talented enough to frequently overmatch hitters while pacing themselves to throw 6 to 9 innings, but they are rare.
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Trying to create overmatch but only focusing on grand strategy runs the risk of continuing to emphasize the same capabilities that currently provide military preeminence.
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" In a twist on the quote I used above, he added, "When truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.
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The third offset, like the second, aims to harness emerging technologies to restore America's "overmatch" against near-peer adversaries, and thus its ability to project power even in highly contested environments.
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Undoubtedly, military overmatch — especially in respect to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities — is a concern for irregular forces and one of the reasons why they choose to operate in densely populated urban environments.
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"While our adversaries seek to surpass us by developing these cutting-edge technologies, we must press ahead to preserve our long-held battlefield overmatch," Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said at the forum.
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But there are also principled arguments to be made that while the President might have dishonored the expectations of his office, the polarizing national trauma of impeachment would overmatch the gravity of his transgressions.
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So we're doing everything we can to get rid of unnecessary processes, to get rid of regulation and really partner with industry to really achieve the technological advances we need to retain overmatch in the future.
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"What I would say is that what we and the people in the region are concerned about is that they already have overmatch with the numbers of ballistic missiles," Austin told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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The Army is pursuing an aircraft that is "capable of achieving and sustaining overmatch against potential competitors and enduring asymmetric threats by closing or mitigating gaps in Army aviation attack and reconnaissance," the service said in April.
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"On its current trajectory, ISIS could regain sufficient strength to mount a renewed insurgency that once again threatens to overmatch local security forces in both Iraq and Syria," the group said, according to the New York Times.
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The Pentagon's National Defence Strategy, published last year (the first for a decade), notes that many vital new technologies come from the commercial sector and are available to rivals, eroding the "conventional overmatch" that America has grown accustomed to.
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" As this Founding Father once stated in the Pennsylvania Gazette, in his "Apology For Printers" that responded to criticism of his publishing of facts, "when truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.
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"On its current trajectory, ISIS could regain sufficient strength to mount a renewed insurgency that once again threatens to overmatch local security forces in both Iraq and Syria," the Institute for the Study of War in Washington concluded in a recent analysis.
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"We think that for a number of reasons we need to make sure we have overmatch and indirect fires, not just for a ground campaign, but also, we need to have the ability to support our sister services," Esper told Brooking's Michael O'Hanlon, according to a transcript of the event.
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These key minerals enable the "overmatch" that Secretary of Defense James MattisJames Norman MattisOnly Donald Trump has a policy for Afghanistan New Pentagon report blames Trump troop withdrawal for ISIS surge in Iraq and Syria Mattis returns to board of General Dynamics MORE demands, which ensures we can not only win any war, but win it in overwhelming fashion.
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"While our current combat fleet is composed of very capable vehicles, these vehicles have been in the inventory for decades and their ability to overmatch peer capabilities in close combat is starting to wane," the Army Futures Command (AFC) Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross-Functional Team (NGCV CFT) wrote last fall in an explanation of its ambitions for the Army's second-highest priority.
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After the end of major operations in the Global War on Terror the US Army emphasized overmatch in their modernization effort. In 2017 a task force was formed to modernize the Army. Its recommendation was to form the Army Futures Command, to engage in systematic development of capabilities to overmatch its adversaries.When activated, the #USArmy Futures Command will have the overarching objective to achieve clear overmatch in future conflicts, making Soldiers and units more lethal to win the nation's wars, then return home safely.
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Overmatch has been criticized as unsustainable in the long term and requiring immense investments in the military and cutting-edge technologies.
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US Army soldiers training for subterranean warfare Underground military facilities play a key role in many nations, there are more than 10,000 underground military facilities worldwide, as such underground warfare is a nearly inevitable component of modern conflicts. Actors often go underground to counteract overmatch such as that faced when taking on a superpower.
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400px Adjusting to this reality demands a different approach. To continue to dominate on the battlefield of the future, the Army must invest in its people as the most agile and adaptive resource. Preserving a technological edge will remain important but technology alone is insufficient to retain overmatch in the face of highly adaptive adversaries. The Army must seek to maintain and exploit a decisive cognitive edge over potential adversaries.
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The Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) is a corps of the Australian Army which provides the Australian Defence Force's armour capability. Armour combines firepower, mobility, protection and networked situational awareness to generate shock action and overmatch in close combat. Armour is an essential element of the combined arms approach that is employed by the Australian Army. The RAAC has its origins in the Australian Tank Corps, which was formed in 1928.
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Many of these urban populations will inhabit vast, densely packed megacities, with populations in excess of ten million people, in countries already struggling to provide governance and essential services for their current populations. Vast urban slums operating outside of the control of legitimate government will lead to increases in violence and lawlessness. These slums will become sanctuaries for adversaries who seek to remain indistinguishable from the population and negate the technological overmatch of even the most sophisticated precision guided missiles.
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The outcome of the contest cannot be known in advance, and according to later critics such as Plutarch, the hero's struggle should be ennobling. Even in modern non-dramatic literature, critics have observed that the agon is the central unit of the plot. The easier it is for the protagonist to triumph, the less value there is in the drama. In internal and external conflict alike, the antagonist must act upon the protagonist and must seem at first to overmatch him or her.
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This increased scrutiny requires leaders steeped in cultural awareness, ethical decision-making, and professional judgment. Rapid Technological Innovation: Advances in technology such as additive manufacturing (3D printing) will allow technologically savvy adversaries to acquire inexpensive high-end weapons systems rapidly. The proliferation of these technologies will increase the probability that future forces will face sophisticated improvised weapons quickly engineered to mitigate US technological overmatch. Future non-state adversaries, unfettered by bureaucracy, will be able to exploit private sector innovation to adapt faster than more established security institutions.
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They will rapidly translate commercial innovations into military capability to gain asymmetric advantages in niche areas, with an increased potential to threaten US security interests. This will dramatically accelerate the speed of competitive innovation required to maintain the technological advantage over adversaries on the battlefield. Army institutions must enter future conflicts with the ability to respond to an enemy's tactics and technology at a much faster rate than in the past. Likewise, leaders must anticipate adversarial action and plan for adaptation to US overmatch.
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Bretagne, partially obscured by the shell splash, is on fire and sinking by the stern, 3 July 1940 Following the French surrender on 22 June 1940, the French fleet was to be disarmed under German and Italian supervision. The British high command was concerned that the French ships would be seized by the Axis powers and placed in service. The Axis navies would then overmatch the Royal Navy. Prime Minister Winston Churchill therefore ordered Vice-Admiral James Somerville, the commander of Force H, to neutralise the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir.
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Dispositions of opposing forces, January 1968 At positions west of Hill 881 South and north of Co Roc Ridge, across the border in Laos, the PAVN established artillery, rocket, and mortar positions from which to launch attacks by fire on the base and to support its ground operations. The PAVN 130 mm and 152 mm artillery pieces, and 122 mm rockets, had a longer range than the Marine artillery support which consisted of 105 mm and 155 mm howitzers. This range overmatch was used by the PAVN to avoid counter-battery fire.Shore, pp. 58–59.
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Before February 2019, the Armaments Center was the U.S. Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC). The Armaments Center is the R&D; center for armaments used by the U.S. Army, Special Operations Command, and other U.S. military organizations. It is one of the specialized research, development, and engineering centers within the U.S. Army Futures Command. Armaments Center's purpose is to provide battlefield supremacy for U.S. troops through “overmatch capabilities.” Over the past 10 years, Armaments Center has developed and released more than 20 products that have provided U.S. troops with “world’s best” capabilities, compared with products from foreign military and other U.S. defense organizations.
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They claimed such limited (and according to Col. Burton, completely unrealistic) testing would "improve the databases used to model vehicle survivability" as opposed to full tests with random shots that would provide a far more accurate of its performance under real battlefield conditions, but produce less useful statistical data. In addition, Burton insisted upon a series of "overmatch" tests in which weapons would be fired at the Bradley that were known to be able to easily penetrate its armor, including Russian ordnance. Burton saw attempts to avoid such tests as dishonest, while the BRL saw them as wasteful, as they already knew the vehicle would fail.
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Before the rise of professional journalism in the early 1900s and the conception of media ethics, newspapers reflected the opinions of the publisher. Frequently, an area would be served by competing newspapers taking differing and often radical views by modern standards. In colonial Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was an early and forceful advocate for presenting all sides of an issue, writing, for instance, in his "An Apology For Printers" that "...when truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, (2004) p 66 In 1798, the Federalist Party in control of Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts designed to weaken the opposition press.
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He blamed the newspapers for electing Jefferson and wrote they were "an overmatch for any Government.... The Jacobins owe their triumph to the unceasing use of this engine; not so much to skill in use of it as by repetition".Cunningham (1957), 167. As one historian explained: "It was the good fortune of the Republicans to have within their ranks a number of highly gifted political manipulators and propagandists. Some of them had the ability... to not only see and analyze the problem at hand but to present it in a succinct fashion; in short, to fabricate the apt phrase, to coin the compelling slogan and appeal to the electorate on any given issue in language it could understand".
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Although Romney officially carried ten more guns than Sibylle, their respective strengths were considerably closer than this indicates. Sibylle carried twenty-six 18-pounder long guns, sixteen 8-pounder long guns and two 36-pounder obusiers for a broadside weight of about (once one adjusts for the fact that the French pound was heavier than the British pound). This contrasts with a broadside weight of from Romneys main battery of 24-pounder long guns, which was therefore, in the opinion of British naval historian William James, "not, in reality, a decided overmatch for a 40-gun French frigate". He further considered that the two gun-decks on Romney were likely to have been the decisive factor in the outcome of the battle.
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The M4A3E8 was involved in 50% of the tank actions, the M26 in 32%, and the M46 in 10%.Zaloga 2010:74-75 The M26/M46 proved to be an overmatch for the T-34-85 as its 90 mm HVAP round could - at point blank range - punch all the way through the T-34 from the front glacis armor to the back,Zaloga 2010:59 whereas the T-34-85 had difficulty penetrating the armor of the M26 or M46.Zaloga 2010:74 The M4A3E8, firing 76 mm HVAP rounds that were widely available during the Korean War (unlike World War II), was a closer match to the T-34-85 as both tanks could destroy each other at normal combat ranges. After November 1950, North Korean armor was rarely encountered.
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The result was a dozen convictions and a storm of outraged public opinion that threw the party from power and gave the Jeffersonian Republican press renewed confidence and the material benefit of patronage when the Republicans took control of the government in 1800. The Republican party was especially effective in building a network of newspapers in major cities to broadcast its statements and editorialize in its favor. Fisher Ames, a leading Federalist, blamed the newspapers for electing Jefferson: they were "an overmatch for any Government ... The Jacobins owe their triumph to the unceasing use of this engine; not so much to skill in use of it as by repetition."Noble Cunningham, The Jeffersonian Republicans: 1789–1801 (1957) p 167 The newspapers continued primarily party organs; the tone remained strongly partisan, though it gradually gained poise and attained a degree of literary excellence and professional dignity.
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India has made a request for information about integrating Brimstone on their Sukhoi Su-30MKI fleet. MBDA hopes that firings conducted in the U.S., intended for the UK to test the feasibility of arming British General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper UAVs with the missile, will persuade the U.S. military to purchase the Brimstone 2.UK May Arm Reapers With Brimstone – Defensenews.com, 21 March 2014 In July 2014, it was revealed that the United States Navy was beginning environmental and integration analysis of the Dual Mode Brimstone for use on the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. U.S. Navy is evaluating MBDA’s Dual Mode Brimstone for its F/A-18 Super Hornet jets – Navyrecognition.com, 18 July 2014 The United States Army also considered the Brimstone as "an option" in its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) program,Shyu On GCV, Upgrades, Sequestration; US ‘Overmatch’ At Stake – Breakingdefense.com, 14 October 2014 but selected Lockheed Martin's dual-mode seeker upgrade for the Hellfire missile.
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