Why the U.S. Army Must Modernize now Rather Than Later

@1SG James W. If the information that Putin and Russia were directly involved in manipulating our election, then our cyber warfare capability needs to be revamped first. The global political dynamic is exceptionally fluid right now. The middle east is more unstable than it has been since post WWII. Russia is saber rattling, and challenging anyone to stand up to them. We need to be prepared to fight everywhere from undersea, land, air, sea, cyberspace, space itself.
We cannot afford to buy useless weapon systems just to build them. We should be focused on weapon systems that are going to be effective in deterring an aggressor. The line in the article "This means upgunning Stryker brigades, accelerating current modernization programs for the Abrams, Bradley, Paladin, M-113 replacements, Multiple Launch Rocket System, Apache and Blackhawk, buying additional sets of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical communications system, deploying active protection systems on front-line combat vehicles and filling up ammo stocks. These may not be sexy, but they are real." is so true, and applies not just to the Army. It applies (specific weapon systems obviously not the same) across the armed forces. We spend more money on our military by a wide margin than any other nation on the planet. We should have the most effectively equipped military, the best trained military, the scariest military force on the planet. Instead we have the F-35 that even the pilots don't like and the Zummwalt which is so expensive to fire, that the main guns are useless. So in that respect the army is fortunate. They don't have a tank in the pipeline that is too expensive to deploy, or an armored vehicle that is unstable so it can only operate on paved roads.
I hope that the Army learns from the mistakes of the Navy and Air Force. I hope that as a whole we can get value from all of our military spending, instead of just the shiny toys that sit on a shelf not to be used. We need weapons systems that can be forward deployed, effective, and make any enemy think twice before engaging us (if not outright instilling fear).

It would help if we stopped buying things just to buy things and keep "infrastructure working". Numerous programs are just kind of moving along in zombie mode because Congress continues to use continuing resolutions in the budgeting process.
Will it change for the better?
I sure hope so.

Good on the Army!