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 Wysłany: Wto 8:49, 06 Sie 2013 Temat postu: speaking on behalf of those who serve |
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| reduced, or replaced by maritime and long-range air assets. America's empire of bases needs rethinking -- and shrinking.The national security apparatus. Instead of being flexible and responsive, the existing structure is rigid and reactive. Today's high-performing public and private organizations today are designed on a horizontal rather than vertical axis. The Pentagon should take heed: Only a smaller, flatter, more networked mechanism can provide the focused, precise, and timely advice the commander-in-chief requires.The civil-military gap. On the eve of his retirement, outgoing JCS chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, speaking on behalf of those who serve, noted that his fellow Americans "don't know ... what we have been through." Americans don't know because today's military exists in splendid isolation from the rest of society -- an unintended consequence of abandoning the citizen-soldier tradition four decades ago. The question deserves to be asked and studied: Does the existing All-Volunteer Force |
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