The Secret Reason America Wins the Wars It Wages
Modern American warriors retain the old GI’s capacity to innovate and adapt technology on the battlefield. Anyone not gobsmacked by the idea of flying a helicopter on Mars has no soul. The sight of NASA’s Ingenuity conducting the first powered flight on another planet should have left all Americans awed—and deeply impressed with themselves. Innovation, adaption, and creativity may not be an American birthright, but it is surely in the American DNA. Our people have long applied these innovative skills in military affairs, making ingenuity part of the American way of war. The traditi...
Source: nationalinterest.org