European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Eating Reform of Pentagon command Structure by Jim Stewart Cox news service some of the pentagons staunchest de fenders now believe the defense Structure would collapse if War came that such a brutal assessment comes from conservatives nominal supporters of the Pentagon has added fuel to a renewed debate on whether to reorganize the military for the first time in 30 critics Are worried that although the armed forces have regained their Pride following the Vietnam no new strategies have evolved from the Pentagon to face today changing the reformists Point to the Gap Between what the defense department spends approaching billion a Day and what it gets for the they Are frustrated when it takes a unified com Mand of american troops composed of every Branch of service except the coast guard four Days to overrun a tiny Island held by a handful of cuban engineers when the search and destroy tactics and weapons of Vietnam produce a stalemate at Best in Al and they worry about which consumes a staggering amount of time each year with arguing an Nual defense concern Over headlines about hammers is giving Way to the realization that while attention has focused on Nickels and billions Are slipping quietly out the Back our Chain of command in the specified and unified commands is dangerously our bureaucracy is we have too Many Field Grade and weapons procurement is a can of retired army Bruce Palmer told a Navy War College Reform study my perception is that the Structure would collapse if we went to War said a for Mer acting army chief of somebody would have to step take charge and make some drastic the forces arguing for change Are formidable Many members of including Sam and Les chairman of the House armed services committee the former chairman of the joint David Jones six former secretaries of de sense and a Host of retired opposed Are the White House and the current service secretaries and joint chiefs of three resolutions that would Reform the joint chiefs of staff have been introduced in the House this hearings May begin in the late summer or if the Issue comes to a it promises to be a titanic proud service traditions and the individual loyalties of every congressman would make it one of the toughest fights youd Ever care to see in said Frank minority staff director of the Senate appropriations rivalries Between the services Are rooted in during the Spanish american the feud grew so bitter that the army commander refused to let the Navy be represented at the formal until shortly before world War army aircraft were prohibited from flying More than 100 Miles out to sea in support of naval among the think analysts and congressional study groups looking at the reorganization none has attracted As much attention As Edward a senior analyst at the Georgetown Center for strategic and International a intellectual conservative who said he some times travels to combat situations just for the expert Lutwak wrote a the Pentagon and the Art of which was a sellout in Page 16 the stars and stripes june 1985