New Study Points Out Chasm Between Army Operators And Acquirers

By Sebastian Sprenger / December 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM
A still-unreleased Army study points to an internal Army rift between soldiers fighting the nation's wars and the acquisition officials working to supply them with weapons and equipment in a timely manner, according to a service source. This "enmity," as the source described it in relating the study's finding to Inside the Army , is partly the result of "perceptions" that have formed in both camps over years of simultaneously fighting wars overseas and scrambling to maneuver the pitfalls of...

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