Cosmetics or Radical Surgery? What's Right For the Top Levels of the U.S Defense Establishment as it Downsizes?

Abstract

Our nation's leaders should break out of the current military roles and missions debate and consider a more comprehensive restructuring of the U.S. defense establishment. In the face of the substantial downsizing now occurring, and likely to continue, the time is right for a major reorganization of the top levels of the U.S. Armed Forces. The purpose of this paper is to show why this is necessary and to suggest one way it might be done. The paper addresses: why the paradigm of roles and missions for independent services is increasingly dysfunctional; why change is needed, particularly organizational structural reform; what can be learned from some of our allies who have reorganized their military establishments; what corporate experience may suggest, based on the experience of large U.S. corporations which have successfully downsized; and who might be the agent of change.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1993
Accession Number
ADA264052

Entities

People

  • Michal R. Robinson

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Classification
  • Department Of Defense
  • Doctrine
  • Governments
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Procurement
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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  • Economics
  • Educational Psychology
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.