| Once Again, The Challenge to the U.S. Army During a Defense Reduction: To Remain a Military Profession |
Feb 2012 |
47 pages |
| Authors:
Don M Snider; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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 | The U.S. Army has been through three reductions-in-force since the inception of the All-Volunteer Force. The first one, roughly 1972-78, actually birthed the All-Volunteer Force. The second one occurred in the late 1990s after the end of the Cold War when the U.S. Army was reduced by approximately one-third in both force structure and budget (Total Obligational Authority). The third one is just now beginning in 2011-12 as the Army ... |
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| Leadership for Military Professions: A Real Strategic Means for America |
Oct 2011 |
4 pages |
| Authors:
Don M Snider; FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INST PHILADELPHIA PA
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| The Telegram is a publication of the Hertog Program in Grand Strategy, jointly sponsored by Temple University s Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy and the Foreign Policy Research Institute and made possible by a grant from the Hertog Foundation. INTRODUCTION. As a participant this year in the Consortium on Grand Strategy, a collaboration between Temple University's Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy and the Foreign ... |
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| The Army's Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict |
Oct-2009 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Don M Snider; Paul Oh; Kevin Toner; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The purpose of the Army's Ethic is stated clearly in Field Manual (FM) 1, The Army. It is to maintain [the Army's] effectiveness. The implication is as clear as it is true-without such an ethic, the Army cannot be effective at what it does. As is well-documented in the literature of professions, their ethics provide the primary means of social direction and control over their members as they perform their ... |
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| The Army's Ethic Suffers Under Its Retired Generals |
Jan-2009 |
4 pages |
| Authors:
Don M Snider; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The recent New York Times article on how Barry McCaffrey handled his conflicting loyalties as a retired Army general, defense industry rain-maker, West Point professor, and respected public voice of CNN and NBC, highlights once again an unsolved and haunting problem for the current strategic leaders of the Army Profession. The problem is how to assist retired general officers in fulfilling their role of moral exemplars of the Profession just ... |
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| Jointness, Defense Transformation, and the Need for a New Joint Warfare Profession |
01-Jan-2003 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Don M Snider; MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT NY
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| This article reviews the evolution toward jointness since the Goldwater-Nichols Act in 1986, relates that progress to the newer initiative of defense transformation, and derives a need for a new joint warfare profession. What has been meant by "jointness" is not agreed upon; it is not a term in the Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. In this analysis the term is used to mean the effective integration of the ... |
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| Emergence of the Joint Officer |
Jan 1996 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Howard D Graves; Don M Snider; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| Both the form and substance of professional military education (PME) have been subjected to basic and revolutionary reforms in recent years. The farsighted Goldwater-Nichols Act, though hotly debated and strongly resisted at the time of its passage, mandated and catalyzed this change. Initially the law had little appeal to the military departments. Today each service accepts, indeed embraces, these reforms because their contribution to the effectiveness of joint warfare outweighs ... |
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| The US Military in Transition to Jointness. Surmounting Old Notions of Interservice Rivalry |
Jan 1996 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Don M Snider; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIRPOWER JOURNAL
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| This article addresses a portion of the latter question by maintaining that major progress towards true jointness has been made since the Goldwater-Nichols legislation of 1986, particularly within functions of the military departments that are considered inputs to military capabilities (i.e., in manning, equipping, and training). When one considers progress in these areas, which has occurred largely out of the public eye, in the correct context, as provided for by ... |
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