UNITY WITHIN TOTAL ARMY CRITICAL TO FUTURE SUCCESS
Mon, 06/27/2022 - 07:55
The world keeps changing, but the in-depth analysis in a 2016 report whose main theme was the importance of harmony among the Army’s three components remains relevant, the authors of a new paper assert.
In “National Commission on the Future of the Army After Six Years,” published by the Association of the U.S. Army as part of its Landpower Essay series, authors Col. Rickey Smith and Maj. Gen. Raymond Carpenter, both retired from the Army, tackle the details of the 2016 report by the National Commission on the Future of the Army.
Smith and Carpenter note that, at the time of the report, the commissioners were “concerned with the estrangement between the Army’s components and how the Commission’s work could bring the components closer together as a Total Army.”
They write that an updated Total Force policy that would guide the Army and DoD in building a “unity of effort and cohesion across the Regular Army, Army National Guard and the Army Reserve is long overdue.”
https://www.ausa.org/news/unity-within-total-army-critical-future-success