Systems, not silver bullets, are key to victory in the Pacific: SOCPAC chief

HONOLULU —No single technology can win every battle and fix every problem, the leader of Special Operations Command Pacific said this week. Instead, the “ability to integrate multiple systems, disparate systems, with more open architecture—that is eventually going to win. If you have that sort of single, standalone technology…it’s likely to be cracked, hacked, and eventually overcome.”

Remember the Karate Kid movies, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey VanAntwerp urged his audience at the AFCEA TechNet Indo-Pacific conference here. When Daniel learned a crane kick , Mr. Miyagi told him, “If done right, no can defense,” VanAntwerp said. “And that worked in Karate Kid one, but then in Karate Kid two, he goes to Okinawa, to people who are more familiar with the operational environment, and…the crane