During my time in the U.S. Army, I learned several valuable lessons from a combat-seasoned noncommissioned officer that ring as true today as the day I first heard them.

He told me, “If you can be seen, you will be targeted, and if targeted, you will die.”

Those words came from a past era, the Cold War, when all combat operations were large-scale.

The same NCO also taught me, “Big objects draw attention. Attention draws interest. Interest ends with targeting, and you know how targeting ends. Small things are not interesting, and mobility — rapid emplacement and displacement, makes you hard to target.”

Thankfully, for our deployed troops and U.S. citizens, today’s Army leadership seems focused on the points above. As our Army undergoes a transformation to prepare itself for modern warfa

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