http://defensetech.org/2007/03/18/changing-of-the-guard/ The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security Fri, 25 May 2012 16:14:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://defensetech.org/2007/03/18/changing-of-the-guard/#comment-26363 Melissa Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:14:30 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=2390#comment-26363 I appreciate that you keep your site going and allow comments. To me feedback is an interesting part of a website. I appreciate that you keep your site going and allow comments. To me feedback is an interesting part of a website.

]]> http://defensetech.org/2007/03/18/changing-of-the-guard/#comment-158221 Jason Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:23:32 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=2390#comment-158221 "What is really unique about this is that it is evidence that the Navy, long considered an outsider in the Joint arena, has finally "made it" - has finally "changed" (transformed?) enough from a platform-centric, open-ocean war-at-sea protect-the-sea-lanes-of-communication entity to one that is integrated with the other combat services to provide a broad spectrum of battlespace operations." Oh cut the crap. The Navy never changes its position or attitude, it expects everyone else to work around it. I've never seen a Navy position on an issue that was "joint." Fallon was put in there so that he could threaten Iran with carrier task forces. Every statement he's made addresses his intent to address the "strategic" issues of the region and not the military aspects of the two wars in theater. When the PACOM top position goes to a ground commander, I'll believe that the DOD chooses commanders based on their skillsets and not on service parochialism. Until then, don't make this out to be something it isn't - it's just politics. “What is really unique about this is that it is evidence that the Navy, long considered an outsider in the Joint arena, has finally “made it” — has finally “changed” (transformed?) enough from a platform-centric, open-ocean war-at-sea protect-the-sea-lanes-of-communication entity to one that is integrated with the other combat services to provide a broad spectrum of battlespace operations.“
Oh cut the crap. The Navy never changes its position or attitude, it expects everyone else to work around it. I’ve never seen a Navy position on an issue that was “joint.” Fallon was put in there so that he could threaten Iran with carrier task forces. Every statement he’s made addresses his intent to address the “strategic” issues of the region and not the military aspects of the two wars in theater.
When the PACOM top position goes to a ground commander, I’ll believe that the DOD chooses commanders based on their skillsets and not on service parochialism. Until then, don’t make this out to be something it isn’t — it’s just politics.

]]> http://defensetech.org/2007/03/18/changing-of-the-guard/#comment-158220 Anonymouse Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:02:00 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=2390#comment-158220 Or the Navy hasn't changed at all, but today's top-down obsession with making everything a "joint" operation has catapulted someone without sufficient experience or expertise into an important billet. Which is what most people I know in the military think... Or the Navy hasn’t changed at all, but today’s top-down obsession with making everything a “joint” operation has catapulted someone without sufficient experience or expertise into an important billet.
Which is what most people I know in the military think…

]]> http://defensetech.org/2007/03/18/changing-of-the-guard/#comment-158219 Solomon Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:44:12 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=2390#comment-158219 That's a pretty big bone to toss the Navy's way! I don't think you can say that any branch has fully adopted Rumsfeld's vision of integration. Several other pundits stated that this change of command had more to do with potential hostilities with IRAN, not with the current combat situation in Iraq. If you will note, General P has the ear of the SecDef and the President. In all reality he is running that operation and the CentCom commander will be focusing elsewhere (again Iran, Africa and other areas of the Middle East...) That’s a pretty big bone to toss the Navy’s way! I don’t think you can say that any branch has fully adopted Rumsfeld’s vision of integration. Several other pundits stated that this change of command had more to do with potential hostilities with IRAN, not with the current combat situation in Iraq. If you will note, General P has the ear of the SecDef and the President. In all reality he is running that operation and the CentCom commander will be focusing elsewhere (again Iran, Africa and other areas of the Middle East…)

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