Rahm Emanuel: US military needs a revolution
Key takeaways
- In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, the former Chicago mayor wrote that the wars in Ukraine and Iran show that the Pentagon must revolutionize its approach to armed conflict.
- Drawing parallels to the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, which reorganized the Defense Department and streamlined the military chain of command, Emanuel added that there s no time to waste to implement new reforms.
- The issue isn t reawakening the warrior spirit in our soldiers, as President Trump likes to claim, the former chief of staff to President Obama wrote.
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In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, the former Chicago mayor wrote that the wars in Ukraine and Iran show that the Pentagon must revolutionize its approach to armed conflict.
Drawing parallels to the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, which reorganized the Defense Department and streamlined the military chain of command, Emanuel added that there s no time to waste to implement new reforms.
The issue isn t reawakening the warrior spirit in our soldiers, as President Trump likes to claim, the former chief of staff to President Obama wrote. Nor is it simply that the military needs more resources, though that may be true in many circumstances. Rather, it is whether we are comprehensively prepared for future battlefields.