Army Finds Some Tenets of Modularity Don't Pass Muster During War

/ June 21, 2010 at 5:00 AM
A key Army concept document, due for release in late summer, is set to take a stab at the service's mantra of modularity, asserting that the concept's central tenet of building formations on-the-fly to execute an ever-changing array of national security missions is detrimental to unit cohesion and combat effectiveness. "Wartime experience has been contrary to the implicit assumptions that underpinned the modular Army's design," states a draft copy of the Army Operating Concept 2016-2028, obtained by Inside the Army...

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