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Article: Army leaders describe strategic rationale for army change.(ALOG News)
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- Army Logistician
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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The Army's senior leaders have released a paper summarizing the intellectual foundations for the profound changes that the Army is now pursuing. The paper, "Serving a Nation at War: A Campaign Quality Army with Joint and Expeditionary Capabilities," emphasizes the need for transformation even as the Nation is fighting a war in a new strategic environment. That environment is essentially "a war of ideas" against non-state adversaries violently opposed to Western values.
As summarized by Acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee and Army Chief of Staff General Peter J. Schoomaker--
The single most significant component of our
new strategic reality ...