{"id":35932,"date":"2013-06-03T07:47:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T11:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35932"},"modified":"2013-06-03T07:47:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T11:47:41","slug":"that-cutting-staff-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35932","title":{"rendered":"That “cutting staff” thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I wrote about Marty Dempsey and his promise to the American people to cut the number of flag officers and their perks. His number was 15% – blaming the Bush Wars for the unprecedented expansion of staffs. Defense News<\/a> reports today that “[t]he size of the Pentagon\u2019s vast oversight organizations grew by more than 15 percent from 2010 to 2012”. Funny how that same number pops up. Despite the fact that then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called for cuts to size of staffs, that isn’t what happened;<\/p>\n

The Joint Staff, for example, grew from 1,286 people in 2010 to 4,244 people in 2012, a 230 percent increase.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is the bureaucracy is more resilient than even the most powerful secretary,\u201d said Arnold Punaro, a retired Marine Corps major general, consultant and member of the Defense Business Board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a point of reference, Marty Dempsey became the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in April, 2011, so he can be reasonably blamed for the unprecedented increase in the size of the Joint Staff, and now he’s talking about cuts like some great savior. And, for what did he increase the staff’s volume? Our strategy in the war against terror during his tenure has been to withdraw from Afghaistan, how big of a staff do you need for that?<\/p>\n

Like I said last night, they need to fire those flag officers officers who have entrenched themselves in their private fiefdoms and successfully avoided any meaningful employment, i.e., deployments and command. And the prince of all Generals, Marty Dempsey should be the first to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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