Daniel Driscoll: “Returning to the army 15 years later, I am absolutely…”

“But our soldiers are still stuck fighting with systems conceived in the 1980s. When I was in Iraq in 2009, the gap between military and commercial technology was stunning. Returning to the army 15 years later, I am absolutely enraged to report that the gap has grown to a deep chasm. And our soldiers have to cross that chasm every single day. I want everyone in this room to put themselves in soldiers shoes for just one minute.” (06:13–06:18)

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