Army secretary goes to war against entrenched bureaucracy
by Jamie McIntyre
& Travis J. Tritten
| October 09, 2018 06:56 AM
WE HAVE SEEN THE ENEMY, IT IS US: Change is hard, Army Secretary Mark Esper lectured his audience at the Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington yesterday. But the Army needs to give up its old ways if it wants to keep pace with America’s adversaries, and that poses a challenge to those who have become too comfortable with the current institutional inertia.
Esper compared the expected resistance to his plans for an Army renaissance to short-sighted Army leaders of the past who didn’t want to give up the horse cavalry or realize the potential of the Wright brothers’ new-fangled flying machine beyond using it for observation. “While European nations were developing a combat role for aviation, the U.S. Army was stuck viewing the airplane through the end of a Civil War-era hot air balloon,†Esper said during a keynote speech opening the three-day event.
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