Let Leaders Off The Electronic Leash: CSA Milley

Let Leaders Off The Electronic Leash: CSA Milley
Let Leaders Off The Electronic Leash: CSA Milley

ARMY & NAVY CLUB: To win the fast-paced and brutal battles of the future, Army generals must let their subordinates off the leash, the Chief of Staff said here yesterday. “What we do, in practice, is we micromanage and overly specify everything the subordinate has to do, all the time,”Gen. Mark Milley told an Atlantic…

Army Commission’s Landmark Report Will Shape Budget Battle

Army Commission’s Landmark Report Will Shape Budget Battle
Army Commission’s Landmark Report Will Shape Budget Battle

UPDATED: Pentagon official rejects Commission’s Apache plan as “too expensive” WASHINGTON: After nine months of often frantic effort, the National Commission on the Future of the Army delivered its final report yesterday afternoon. Now comes the hard part. It’s 2016, not 2015, that will be the year of the commission, because their 208-page report will…

Active vs. Guard: An Avoidable Pentagon War

Active vs. Guard: An Avoidable Pentagon War
Active vs. Guard: An Avoidable Pentagon War

WASHINGTON: Last year, the US Air Force fell face-first onto a buzzsaw when it proposed dramatic cuts to the Air National Guard, whose supporters raised a storm of protest in the Congress. Now there are signs that the next big budget battle will be between the regular active-duty Army and the Army National Guard. Or,…

Army Chief Odierno’s ‘Foreign Policy’ Piece Shouts Into The Sequestration Wind

WASHINGTON: In war, as in stand-up comedy, timing is everything, and Gen. Ray Odierno’s timing could hardly be worse. This week, in the prestigious journal Foreign Policy, the Army Chief of Staff published an essay on “The Force of Tomorrow” that is long, thoughtful, a little bland –- and completely overtaken by events. It hit…