Stavridis continues to roll

POST: NATO Nominee Calls for Expanded Goldwater-Nichols, By Michael Bruno, Ares, 6/2/2009

Stavridis already having nice impact on his way to NATO. He is is arguably the smartest active-duty admiral on the planet right now. I knew him way back when, before he became flag, and he always stood out as this brain-among-brains, which is why people--like me--who admire him a lot are so happy to see him reach such heights in his career (two combatant commands: first SOUTHCOM where he did some truly innovative, very SysAdmin stuff; and now NATO, where, quite frankly, he is a better outcome than Petraeus would have been, so it's great all around that Petraeus got pushed into CENTCOM [against his will, just a bit, by circumstances . . . in which I played a small role]).

While I am not a great fan of the Goldwater-Nichols approach, I welcome as many stirring spoons in the pot as possible.

The key bit:

A move to apply the joint-forcing concept beyond the U.S. military continues to gain incremental ground, with the next expected military leader of NATO endorsing an inter-agency reorientation among U.S. agencies.

"Today, our military functions extremely well in the joint world," U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis testified this morning in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I believe the next step toward increasing effectiveness of our national security apparatus is to institute similar provisions that encourage an interagency approach."

(Thanks: Brad Barbaza)

Comments

[William R. Cumming]

Believe it or not there was once a strong civil security organization under the NATO Treaty. Totally ignored by US Government and foreign and domestic policy types. Who were the real drafters of the NATO treaty or was it "imposed" by US!

I advocate we pull out of NATO but only if Russia allowed to join!