In this episode of the Modern War Institute Podcast, MWI’s Maj Jake Miraldi sits down for a conversation with Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy. The Army is in an era of transition. The service is modernizing and preparing to operate under the emerging multi-domain operations concept, all while the US military increasingly turns its attention to competition with peer and near-peer adversaries like Russia and China after nearly years of counterinsurgency and stability operations in America’s post-9/11 wars. Secretary McCarthy describes both the substantial changes the Army is undergoing and the environment in which those changes are occurring.

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Image credit: Sgt. Dana Clarke, US Army