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Pentagon Chief Seeks Reforms: Russia ’No. 1 Strategic Threat’
Local Editor
Seeking to make the US military more efficient and better coordinated in the face of "strategic threat" from Russia, US War Secretary Ash Carter is seeking "practical updates" to the Pentagon's organizational framework established in the 1970s.
Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS] in Washington, DC, Carter said the reforms were necessary to make the US military more "agile" and able to address the five strategic challenges, which he named as "Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and terrorism."
The changes, proposed by the Pentagon's Deputy Chief Management Officer Peter Levine and Joint Staff Lieutenant-General Thomas Waldhauser after a months-long review, seek to give the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [CJCS] more authority to advise and coordinate between different services and commands, make the commands more efficient, and improve the acquisition process, among other things.
The reforms envision expanding the authority of the CJCS to "help synchronize resources globally for daily operations around the world," coordinating forces across the seams of combatant commands; provide military advice for current operations, not just future planning; and to advise Carter on military strategy and operational plans, taking into consideration possible "overlapping contingencies."
Carter defended keeping the CJCS outside the chain of command, arguing this would ensure preserving his integrity as the principal military adviser to the civilian authorities.
It's not by accident that terrorism was last on the Pentagon's list of threats. It is not much of a danger to the American superpower concept - unlike Russia and China.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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