Fire All The Generals

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno talks with U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, commanding general for Regional Command South, on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 7, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Ashley Bell

How To Fix The Army: Sack All The Generals -- Allen McDuffee, Danger Room

Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis doesn’t have faith in Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno.

Or the rest of the U.S. Army’s generals, for that matter.

Writing in the August issues of The Armed Forces Journal (“Purge the generals“), Davis argues that it’s high time to sack the Army’s senior leaders for what he sees as an institutionalized epidemic of astonishing failures that not only go unreported, but are typically rewarded. All of it, he says, is creating a self-perpetuating culture of abysmal performance that won’t go away until the generals do.

“Over that past 20 years, our senior leaders have amassed a record of failure in major organizational, acquisition and strategic efforts,” Davis writes. “These failures have been accompanied by the hallmarks of an organization unable and unwilling to fix itself: aggressive resistance to the reporting of problems, suppression of failed test results, public declaration of success where none was justified, and the absence of accountability.”

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My Comment: Should we fire the politicians first?