The tragedy of this episode is that the technologies contained in the Dragon Fire are really inevitable: greater automation, faster response, smaller logistic and human footprint. It has to happen.
I used to joke that “if we had the Dragon Fire in Vietnam, they’d be voting Republican today”. Even though the Old Guard successfully suppressed the Dragon Fire and kept their older systems, they only delayed the future for a little while. All of these advances worked and worked well and the development will take place again when some younger soldiers and Marines take charge and apply their technologic skills to fire support.
Semper Fi!
Hopefully those warriors will be Americans.
I loathe to think of a future where our refusal to adapt causes Americans to militarily disadvantaged.