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Originally Posted by cowboykpy
One can only hope this kind of thinking is being advocated to our decision makers.
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Honestly I think some of the Regiment's decision makers do get it. Not all of them but maybe enough of them. I have no confidence that anyone at DOD or on the Army side, TRADOC and FORSCOM get it. Unfortunately, I don't think the average guy on an ODA gets it either - and that's what I'm primarily concerned about. Hopefully, that will change as guys rotate through advise/assist missions, JCETs, etc. and a new generation gets comfortable with manipulating vice doing. I think the author is spot on with his vision of SF. Realizing the goals he's outlined will require a culture shift. MOO - it's a good thing our best are consummate chameleons, able to morph themselves into whatever the times demand. What I really liked (because SF is already looking to our future - albeit not as clearly as we would like) were his comments about talent management. Let's see if the hidebound dinosaurs that insist everything be done "the way it's always been done" will finally realize that men are more important than hardware and treat every Soldier as an asset to be nurtured and employed where best suited.
All in all a good read. From my POV, he's preaching to the choir and I'll exclaim right along with him. Now let's see if we can do some converting on the conventional side so there's a chance to implement his points.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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