Second reaction - Presumably the article is mostly aimed at military insiders. (Vs. tech-industry folks, whose first reactions were probably laughter.) Rather than dripping in tech/business buzzwords, perhaps the article should have noted the long (and decisively-losing, generally) military history of armies which "successfully" resisted the adaption of then-modern technologies.
Third reaction - Even in WWII, there were a lot of support elements and skills which any credible army valued highly. Armories, Combat Engineering, Communications, Cooks, Logistics, Maintenance, Medical, Training, Transportation, ...
> Is the Army ready to think like a Tech Company? Why the service needs to value coding the same way as shooting
First reaction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Second reaction - Presumably the article is mostly aimed at military insiders. (Vs. tech-industry folks, whose first reactions were probably laughter.) Rather than dripping in tech/business buzzwords, perhaps the article should have noted the long (and decisively-losing, generally) military history of armies which "successfully" resisted the adaption of then-modern technologies.
Third reaction - Even in WWII, there were a lot of support elements and skills which any credible army valued highly. Armories, Combat Engineering, Communications, Cooks, Logistics, Maintenance, Medical, Training, Transportation, ...