Good posts Norfolk 13, Eden 19!

Sometimes I think that the best chance for the armed & intelligence services would be to reduce them by fifty percent. Lots of dogmas, intervoven multi-tier systems, clanish and self/career/budget-serving structures would have to vanish. Might produce the lean & mean machine that is needed.

Word on the General Staff issue: YESSS! But go the whole way to unified forces and include Navy and intelligence.