{"id":15902,"date":"2025-11-21T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/army-secretary-dan-driscoll-on-transforming-the-armed-forces\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:02:01","slug":"army-secretary-dan-driscoll-on-transforming-the-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/army-secretary-dan-driscoll-on-transforming-the-armed-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Secretary Dan Driscoll on transforming the armed forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dan Driscoll made history earlier this year when, at 38, he was sworn in as the youngest Army secretary in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>And he just made news again this week when he became the highest-level Trump administration official to visit Kyiv for the White House\u2019s secret peace talks in effort to end Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. Driscoll joined high-level talks with Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as news broke about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/18\/top-army-officials-set-for-drone-focused-visit-to-ukraine-00658328?oref=d_brief_nl&amp;utm_campaign=The+D+Brief:+November+20,+2025&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_term=newsletter_d1_dbrief\" target=\"_blank\">a potential peace deal on the horizon.<\/a> <politico-generic-embed data-state='{\"cms.site.owner\":{\"_ref\":\"0000014b-3270-d4f3-a3cb-f3ffa8610000\",\"_type\":\"0000014b-324d-d4f3-a3cb-f3ff4161000e\"},\"cms.content.publishDate\":1763687131471,\"cms.content.publishUser\":{\"_ref\":\"00000173-832d-d26c-af77-9b7f28330000\",\"_type\":\"0000014b-324d-d4f3-a3cb-f3ff415b0002\"},\"cms.content.updateDate\":1763687131471,\"cms.content.updateUser\":{\"_ref\":\"00000173-832d-d26c-af77-9b7f28330000\",\"_type\":\"0000014b-324d-d4f3-a3cb-f3ff415b0002\"},\"originalTemplate\":false,\"enhancementWidth.hasBorder\":false,\"uploads\":[],\"internalLabel\":\"The Conversation 11-21-25 \",\"html\":\"&lt;iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=POLL8609603220&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\",\"populateAppleNewsVersion\":false,\"hideOffPlatform\":false,\"_id\":\"0000019a-a3f1-d51c-a39e-aff9b3ee0000\",\"_type\":\"e9646ae1-afe3-34fa-9287-f86c159fac9e\"}'>\n   The Conversation 11-21-25\n <\/politico-generic-embed>Driscoll is a veteran of the Iraq War, and as a result, has felt the effects of Pentagon decisions firsthand. He\u2019s set out to reshape the U.S. Army and the Pentagon into an agile institution that can make better use of existing resources and channel the best practices of the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are creating defensive and offensive solutions, you have to think even 10 years out when the war really gets to its most catastrophic moment, \u2018What are the very basic tools of warfare that can&#8217;t be impacted by the enemy,\u201d Driscoll said.<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s episode of The Conversation, Driscoll sits down with Blue Light News\u2019s Dasha Burns to delve into the future of warfare, his plans for reinvigorating the Army\u2019s technology and the innovation spurred by conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the best guess is if the United States entered a conflict with a peer in a couple of years, it would be a hybrid war where nearly every human being on the battlefield would be empowered and enabled with a digital tool,\u201d Driscoll said. \u201cI think we believe every infantryman in the United States Army will carry a drone with them into battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BLN &#8220;NewsNight&#8221; host Abby Phillip also joined Dasha to chat about her new book, \u201cA Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power,\u201d Jackson\u2019s influence on today\u2019s political landscape and Phillip\u2019s approach to her own roundtable show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Driscoll made history earlier this year when, at 38, he was sworn in as the youngest Army secretary in U.S. history. 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