Mapping Military Needs, Aided by a Big Projection
09.12.2012 at 09:17am
Mapping Military Needs, Aided by a Big Projection by Thom Shanker of the New York Times.
Three times so far this year, the and the regional war-fighting commanders have assembled at a military base south of the capital, where a giant map of the world, larger than a basketball court, was laid out on the ground, giving the sessions an appearance of a lethally earnest game of Risk…
Excerpt:
General Dempsey said the military was confronting “a strategic inflection point, where the institution fundamentally re-examines itself.” The seminar project he started fits his goal: to try to build the right military force for five years from now — and not be driven by the budget cycle into a series of year-by-year decisions.
Or year-by-year budget NON-DECISIONS.