Spec Ops Leaders Want Off-the-Shelf Gear Fast

Defense News: WASHINGTON — While American officials will almost always begin their public remarks boasting that US forces are the best led, best equipped, most highly trained fighting force the world has ever known, a hint of doubt — or at least healthy concern — has crept into their comments in recent years.

"Many of our adversaries have acquired, developed and even stolen technologies that have put them on somewhat equal footing with the West in a range of areas," Michael Dumont, the Pentagon's principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations, said Tuesday.

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