Defense News
By Joe Gould
November 10, 2015
WASHINGTON — According to expert testimony on Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Defense Department is straining under a lumbering, outmoded and top-heavy command structure in dire need of an overhaul to compete with faster-moving adversaries and eliminate government waste.
Partially to blame is the committee’s last major overhaul of the Defense Department, the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act.
Two former staffers who midwifed Goldwater-Nichols, now leading thinkers on national security, urged lawmakers to address some of the law’s problematic results: James Locher, a Joint Special Operations University senior fellow, and John Hamre, CEO of the Center For Strategic And International Studies and chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee — plus Jim Thomas, of the Center For Strategic And Budgetary Assessments.
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