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Looks like we’re getting some pushback.  First, from Robert Spalding III at Foreign Affairs (subscription):

Robert Farley (“Ground the Air Force,” December 19, 2013) is so far wide of the mark that he brings to mind the difference between the miss-by-a-mile bombs of World War II and the precision-guided bombs of today that fly through windows. The defense establishment is certainly in need of new ideas. But getting rid of the U.S. Air Force will do nothing to make the Pentagon more efficient or effective. In fact, such a move would do grave damage to our national security.

 

And from Robert Killebrew at War on the Rocks:

There might be some merit in reducing the Department structure, since the offices of the civilian secretaries tend, like all bureaucracies, to grow.  Yet the civilian secretaries, of independent service branches, play a role in the civilian-military connection.  In our post-WWII history there has been a constant sort of Brownian motion between the civilians and the uniforms in DoD, and that’s not liable to stop, no matter how the deck chairs get rearranged.  For the political cost of making major changes, and the disruption of a distinctively American unified service culture, it seems to me that it would be a lot of smoke for not much steam.

I should have a full response to the Spalding piece up by Monday or Tuesday.

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