This Is Really Old News...

 ... it is decades old. This reflects catastrophically on, and you may have guessed it already, military education. 

I want to refer you back to this:

The Army has made insufficient progress in arming its officers with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and management (STEM+M) knowledge. The contemporary battlefield is faster paced, technologically enabled, and data driven, requiring officers to possess more skills, knowledge, and experience. We examine the Army’s history with STEM education and show that, in terms of education, the current Army officer corps has fallen behind its requirements for technology-enabled forces and modern society. We conclude with recommendations on how the Army can close the STEM+M education gap through advances in higher education and adopting talent management practices.

Warfare IS advanced math (and Physics), period. Hyman Rickover understood that, American public education as a whole--doesn't.