The technological advances made during WWII were only half of the spectrum. As a branch, we developed effective strategies to fight and win wars. Of those strategies, the most important was Operational Security. If you recall, the VT-1 fuse was kept highly secret to give the Soldiers an advantage. To this day, we still focus on protecting our secrets and ensuring that we aren’t sharing too much information in order to maintain those advantages. The modern issue that we face as not only a branch, but the military in general is the emergence of social media in the last ten years. It is much harder to protect those secrets with such a widely available platform to share them on. With the changing operational environment, the branch had to adopt
