How to block military reform: Step one
This passage in a 2007 essay by retired Army Brig. Gen. Huba Wass de Czege seems to me to speak, perhaps, to the Army’s Five Fingers controversy: If you want to block reforms, install a ‘council of colonels’ to guard the gates of change. No one is as conservative or as arrogant as a staff ...
This passage in a 2007 essay by retired Army Brig. Gen. Huba Wass de Czege seems to me to speak, perhaps, to the Army's Five Fingers controversy:
This passage in a 2007 essay by retired Army Brig. Gen. Huba Wass de Czege seems to me to speak, perhaps, to the Army’s Five Fingers controversy:
If you want to block reforms, install a ‘council of colonels’ to guard the gates of change. No one is as conservative or as arrogant as a staff colonel in the comfort zone of his expertise.
(P. 10)
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