Reorganization?

For my latest at 1945 I draw some water from an old well:

The services still drive procurement, and procurement is the biggest problem facing the Pentagon right now. Training and doctrine are similarly in the hands of the services, and while significant steps have been made to integrate these processes across the services, bureaucratic divides leave gaps in communication and planning.

Weighed against the costs of bureaucratic division is what the services provide: long-term continuity of culture, planning, and tradition that structures the U.S. defense enterprise and provides a foundation for the future. 

The idea of a major revision of the services is not new. The story of the founding of the U.S. Air Force is well known, but the birth of the U.S. Space Force is a far lesser-known story, despite its recency. Yet the Space Force significantly modified how the Department of Defense does business.

In 2014, this author proposed abolishing the U.S. Air Force and folding its assets into the Army and Navy.

A recent op-ed by Harrison Kass suggested doing the same thing to the U.S. Marine Corps. Both arguments rested in large part on redundancy: Why does the United States need four air forces and two armies?

And why does the U.S. Space Force require its own special warfare capabilities? Such questions may have answers, but the people associated with the organizations should provide them.

Of course nothing serious will happen because this administration cannot engage Congress even on areas where Congress might be broadly sympathetic. Governing is hard and no one in the Trump administration has any interest in doing it.