The US military’s next significant challenge: Hiding

Devastating attacks by Iran on U.S. bases across the Middle East in recent months have exposed war strategies that are becoming increasingly outdated, one U.S. Army commanding general acknowledged this week. - Eve Sampson

Gone are the days when America fought from sprawling command posts with overwhelming air superiority. 

Now faced with adversaries toting long-range fires and drones, the U.S. military is relearning a basic principle: how to hide...

• The U.S. is now returning to a “period of warfare where the base itself is a vulnerability and something an adversary can attack,” she said, which can lead to the scattering of resources.
• Exacerbating that susceptibility has been the U.S. military’s reliance on costly interceptor munitions to combat Iranian ballistic missiles and cheap, one-way attack drones, actions that have significantly depleted interceptor stocks...