Future of the US Army

[Shek]

If you have time, here's the transcript to an American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research event "The Future of the US Army." There were three panels, all of which were very interesting. It's a good read if you have the time to go through it.

http://www.aei.org/events/filter.,ev...transcript.asp

Panel I: Strategy and Missions
Eliot A. Cohen, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS
Gen. John M. Keane, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Col. Robert Killebrew, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, U.S. Army (Ret.)

Panel II: Force Size, Force Structure, and Force Posture
Michèle Flournoy, CSIS
Frederick W. Kagan, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution
Maj. Gen. David C. Ralston, director of force management, G-3, U.S. Army
Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, U.S. Army (Ret.)

Panel III: Doctrine, Training, and Equipping
Brig. Gen. David Fastabend, Futures Center, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
Gen. Barry McCaffrey, U.S. Army (Ret.), U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Maj. Donald Vandergriff, U.S. Army
Michael Vickers, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

[sniperdude411]

I just wrote a research paper about this kind of thing, more devoted to bombs and snipers and such.