Who ordered the Army Chief of Staff word salad?
Gen. McConville is a great example of why you shouldn’t expect meat & potatoes when asking a senior officer to open up about anything.
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Written by
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
WASHINGTON — What do you get when you settle in with a top U.S. Army general for a wide ranging one-on-one interview in front of a D.C. defense industry audience? Certainly not a meal of meat and potatoes — more like a heaping plate of word salad.
The scene was set in the luxury Hamilton Hotel in Washington on Wednesday when Gen. James McConville, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, sat down with Politico’s Pentagon reporter Lara Seligman to open the media platform’s conference, “At a Crossroads: America’s Defense Strategy.”
Here was a dramatic ballroom, lights, cameras, and, unfortunately, what Washington typically considers “action” — the skill of saying a lot without saying very much of anything at all.
This, of course, is fairly disappointing but not surprising. U.S. Generals are by nature not reflective, at least publicly. They are big draws at these events, but they never deliver. One wonders if anyone cares.
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