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Tactics, techniques and procedures have played out from the Russian New Generation Warfare Study, a recent paper that examined how soldiers will meet threats between 2020 and 2040, he continues. “What Russia was able to do on the cheap was to tie sensor to shooter using very cheap drones and cellphone technologies for direct and indirect fires and virtually decimate immobile command posts,” Gen. Crawford says.

The general adds that the Army is putting Wi-Fi in its command posts, and it is looking at Li-Fi, a wireless optical networking technology that uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for data transmission. The technology switches LEDs on and off quickly for signal linkage, which would prove more difficult to detect by an adversary that is not inside a command center. Gen. Crawford says the two wireless technologies can coexist.