Ghosts & Warfighting
“We always want to make first contact with the smallest [enemy] element,” he says. That’s doctrine. Why would we ever have that be a human again? Why isn’t that contact made with an unmanned aerial vehicle or an unmanned ground vehicle?”That’s the effective range at which a soldier-controller in a Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle can remotely command and drive an RCV based on the testing at Fort Carson.
His comments are a welcome break from the political, image-driven discourse that currently dominates the conversation of America’s senior military leadership. They bolster the idea that getting unmanned ground combat vehicles right, and being willing to exploit them, is vital.Major Gen. Coffman has spent his career on the operational side of the Army - from Cavalry Regiments to Armored and Infantry Divisions and the“I’ve always been a warfighter,” he says. “That’s all I’ve done.
“At the end of the day, unmanned vehicles will reduce risk to humans. It won’t reduce the number of humans [needed to fight] in my opinion. They’re either going to augment the fighting force, [performing] tasks currently done by humans… or they will do new and expanded tasks not currently done by humans. They will exponentially add to our capabilities as we move forward and fight.”
In past comments, Coffman has mentioned the potential for RCVs to act as bio-chemical sensors but on this specific question he replies, “While anything may be technically possible, we are an ethical force and will always follow the law of ground warfare.”
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