The United States faces extraordinary challenges on both the
strategic and operational levels. At the strategic level, the
national security environment is in flux and many of the
structures, concepts, and methods of the past no longer apply to
the conditions we now face. Containment, the alliance system, our
military doctrine, and many other elements of national security
policy were not designed for prolonged struggle with militant
Islam, an ascendant China, a Russia which is no longer a
containable super power enemy but a rival for influence at
America's expense, a decline in American influence, and a sharply
divided American polity. Generals Zeb Bradford and Frederic Brown,
co-authors of the highly influential book on the U.S. military in
Vietnam, U.S. Army in Transition, have teamed up again to discuss
the need for a new era of transition within the Armed Forces.
Bradford and Brown point to the current war in Iraq, a lack of
interagency competence across the national government, and the
botched disaster relief efforts of Katrina as glaring examples of
the failure of America's Army to adapt to present-day challenges.
Given the rapid and dramatic changes throughout the world, the
authors stress how selective adaptation of specific programs and
procedures can contribute to improving policy execution within and
across all facets of government, including the armed forces. Yet
this adaptation to change must be institutionalized, requiring the
Army to become a constantly evolving learning organization. Only
within this context can the army manage to act on the myriad
demands of the day including taking the leadership in international
cooperation, fighting the amorphous enemy of "The LongWar" against
terrorism, responding effectively to disaster scenarios, and
engaging in stabilization and reconstruction efforts around the
world.
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