The Department of Defense is about to undergo its biggest transition since 1946.
After winning World War II, the United States military had to transform itself in order to meet the demands of a new world order. The weapons systems that we invested in to win WWII were rapidly becoming obsolete.
The symbol of America’s airpower in WWII, the P-51, was completely outclassed by the time of the Korean War. Our best WWII tank, the Pershing M-26, had to be withdrawn from the battlefields of Korea. By the late 1950s, most of the US capital ships from WWII were transferred to other nations, mothballed or scrapped.
In 1946, we had just begun to transition from piston engine aircraft to jets, from conventional weapons to nuclear, from bombs to ballistic missiles.
It was the dawn of the computer age, television, and the first mobile telephones. It was also the beginnings of the Cold War, the peasant revolutions, the global rise of Communism and Socialism, and a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers, the United States and the USSR.
After winning World War II, the United States military had to transform itself in order to meet the demands of a new world order. The weapons systems that we invested in to win WWII were rapidly becoming obsolete.
The symbol of America’s airpower in WWII, the P-51, was completely outclassed by the time of the Korean War. Our best WWII tank, the Pershing M-26, had to be withdrawn from the battlefields of Korea. By the late 1950s, most of the US capital ships from WWII were transferred to other nations, mothballed or scrapped.
In 1946, we had just begun to transition from piston engine aircraft to jets, from conventional weapons to nuclear, from bombs to ballistic missiles.
It was the dawn of the computer age, television, and the first mobile telephones. It was also the beginnings of the Cold War, the peasant revolutions, the global rise of Communism and Socialism, and a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers, the United States and the USSR.
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