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US Marine Corps Experiments With Available Technologies To Transform Air-Ground Combat Consider the following situation. Enemy forces use decoys, deception, and their resemblance to non-combatants to avoid targeting by joint overhead surveillance and reconnaissance assets. The Joint Task Force commander elects to send in ground forces in small teams to provide discriminate targeting for engagement with precision munitions. The small teams, operating in widely dispersed units, add clarity to the operational picture and, in conjunction with tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), provide the ability to route a skillful enemy fighting on his own turf. It may sound like the war...