Why is it that you can send money around the world in seconds with your phone, but a forward observer can’t use a secure application to connect with an artillery battery and call for fire? That’s because the past 30 years of technological innovation have largely left the military behind. The services don’t have a large-scale ability to create the technology required to compete on the modern battlefield.This is a problem. And the Marine Corps is no further ahead than the other services. It does not have an active duty or civilian workforce with the skills necessary to develop orThe post How Reservists Can Jumpstart Military Software Development appeared first on War on the Rocks.