By Aaron Mehta, Defense News: “The Pentagon plans to take two years to complete the reorganization of its acquisition, technology and logistics office, in order to avoid missteps as it creates two new replacement organizations.”
By Nicolas Maldera, Strategy Bridge: “Even if there remains an on-going debate between proponents of realism and supporters of the bureaucratic/institutional school, one should assume weapons programs are at least partially initiated to counter the weapons of an enemy or potential enemy and are integrated into a larger arsenal. Strategy is a matter of rationality first.”
Reforming The Army's Acquisition System
By Daniel Gouré, The National Interest: “Just a month ago, the U.S. Army’s top leaders, Acting Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy and Chief of Staff General Mark Milley, announced the most far-reaching reforms of the acquisition system in two generations. A new command will be created by mid-2018 to manage and streamline Army modernization. ”
By Caroline Bechtel, Small Wars Journal: “The Iraqi MoD’s presence on social media–and Facebook in particular–has been a crucial element of its military learning process since 2014. This adaptation demonstrates that the MoD has co-opted one of its enemy’s most valuable weapons: social media.”
By John T. Kuehn, Divergent Options: “The Project for National Security Reform (PNSR) began looking at this issue in 2008 and found that NSA 47 no longer fit the strategic environment we are currently facing or will face in the 21st Century.”