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Yes and I attribute that to two factors:

1. All volunteer -- so professionals and better pay than the draft Army
2. The institutional schooling to include organizational training centers such as...

Yes the division between the organizational and institutional armies has only deepened with the war and the 49/51 profile distribution. One thing I did not note in the piece I sent you was this data...

Yes compliant is the more accurate assessment -- this dovetails with Yingling's critique


Agree



The system has been adept at eliminating insurgents before. It would take as you have noted...

Shinseki tried only a modest assault on the status quo with his pitch beginning in 1997 to introduce technical literacy into the operational culture of the Army via the creation of the simulations...

Ha! That is what I told my O6 senior rater (I was an O5 then and retired as one last year) in Iraq in 2005. I told him; "Sir, I've been in the Army for 20 years in spite of OPMS, not because of it....

Yes HRC and the assignment officer, the latter I liken to a Vegas card dealer who plays you with a stacked deck. Only he knows what cards are in the deck, if he has all 52 he won't show them to you,...

That's it! I figured that somebody would have come up with it before I did. But my version of the OER and OPMS works like this:

1. Left to their own devices and without any checks on them (and...

Once again, the Army comes up to a problem representing an external threat which does not play to its preferred COA of force on force attrition,
goes through a lot of pain in coming to grips with...