Gentile doubts SysAdmin

ARTICLE: Let's Build an Army to Win All Wars, By Gian P. Gentile, Joint Forces Quarterly, Issue 52, 1st quarter 2009

As you can guess (with a title like that or if you know where he's coming from), Gentile is skeptical of the Army's ability to do SysAdmin, grouping Tom with John Nagl (good company):

Retired Army lieutenant colonel John Nagl, author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, is so cocksure of the efficacy of Army combat power that he believes it will have the ability not only to dominate land warfare in general but also to "change entire societies." Reminiscent of Thomas Barnett's Pentagon blueprint argument of building new societies on the Western model where they do not currently exist in the proverbial Third World is Nagl's concept for reorienting the long-term strategic mission of American ground forces.

(Thanks: waveman850)