Four-Star Panel Argues For Strategic Landpower In Face Of Shifting Pentagon Priorities

By Tony Bertuca / October 23, 2013 at 5:21 PM
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno, accompanied by Adm. William McRaven, the chief of U.S. Special Operations Command, and Gen. John Paxton, the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, forcefully made the case today for focusing on strategic landpower -- a concept that they warned was quickly becoming endangered at the Pentagon. The three, who appeared together on a panel at the annual Association of the United States Army convention in Washington, stressed the importance of traditional landpower amid...

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