Rahm Emanuel: US military needs a revolution

Rahm Emanuel rolled out his latest policy proposal on Sunday, arguing that the U.S. military needs reform to compete in modern warfare.

In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, the former Chicago mayor wrote that the wars in Ukraine and Iran show that the Pentagon must “revolutionize” its approach to armed conflict.

Drawing parallels to the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, which reorganized the Defense Department and streamlined the military chain of command, Emanuel added that “there’s no time to waste” to implement new reforms.

“The issue isn’t reawakening the ‘warrior spirit’ in our soldiers, as President Trump likes to claim,” the former chief of staff to President Obama wrote. “Nor is it simply that the military needs more resources, though that may be true in many circumstances. Rather, it is whether we are comprehensively prepared for future battlefields.”

He continued, “It has been the nation’s policy for decades to ensure the military is able to fight two wars simultaneously. But given how the world is evolving technologically and geopolitically, we must be able to fight two types of wars — conventional and unconventional — at the same time and in the same theater.”

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022,........

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