The Takeaway From AUSA by Loren Thompson, Lexington Institute.
The annual exposition hosted at Washington's convention center by the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) is widely considered to be the best run conference of any military service or defense association. It's not just that AUSA does such a good job of managing the affair, and that everybody who's anybody in the Army leadership shows up; it's also that you can learn so much from simply walking the floor. The main thing that I learned this year -- the exposition wrapped up on Wednesday -- is that Army modernization is in deep trouble…