Paratroopers practice assembling into a stack to clear a building at the Joint Readiness Training Center on Fort Polk, La., Jan. 13, 2012. Each paratrooper is assigned to watch for threats from a different direction. The paratroopers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
The Army's Vision Thing: The Biggest Service Struggles To Define Itself -- Aol Defense
The U.S. Army has always struggled with what the elder George Bush once called "the vision thing." Now that struggle is boiling over.
At the latest of a series of conferences on the future of the Army, junior officers openly debated with top generals over how to sell the service to the Congress, the country, and its own war-weary soldiers wondering whether to get out. Should the Army seek the clarity of a new crusade to replace counterinsurgency in the Middle East? Or should the service present itself as the nation's jack of all trades, humbly ready to take on any mission?
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