The military has more stuff they do not use than we could possibly imagine. I remember not too long ago sniper schools and fielded teams couldn’t get enough ammo to practice because the budgets went to pie in the sky crap. Personal armor was saving lives but budgets weren’t there to buy simple $1,000 armor, yet, the Air Force is billions behind on a pie in the sky satellite system that has little advantage over systems costing 1/10th as much. $10 billion went to the Peacekeeper missile that was then canceled.
Back to basics would be good but between politics, social experimentation with queers and women in combat, to pie in the sky systems, the average grunt has far less than what he should be given to accomplish the job.
The Air Force canceled the A-10 using more F-16s for ground support. Dumd idea, but politics prevailed and money is wasted and ground troops don’t have the best, and cheapest, ground attack aircraft they need.
I seriously think the military should cancel every research project and start over. Anything not in production should be halted.
The Israelis learned in Lebanon 2006 that heavy armor (not “light” armored vehicles) are still the kings of land war. Like us, they went into Lebanon thinking that the best way to fight in urban warfare is to ditch heavy MBTs and go in light. Now that they have learned their leason, they are rearming their MBTs for urban warfare and ditching the Stryker vehicle types.