The "Process Of Transformation"

[Gold9472]

The "Process Of Transformation"

By Jon Gold
8/26/2006
Updated: 9/2/2007

I was taking a look at "Rebuilding America's Defenses (http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf)" today, and I noticed the phrase, "Process Of Transformation" is mentioned SEVERAL times.

Page 12
In addition, the process of transformation must proceed from an appreciation of American strategy and political goals.

Page 13
Moreover, the process of transformation should proceed in a spirit of competition among the services and between service and joint approaches.

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While it is certain that new technologies will allow for the closer combination of traditional service capabilities, it is too early in the process of transformation to choke off what should be the healthy and competitive face of "interservice rivalry."

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Finally, it must be remembered that the process of transformation is indeed a process: even the most vivid view of the armed forces of the future must be grounded in an understanding of today's forces.

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In general terms, it seems likely that the process of transformation will take several decades and that U.S. forces will continue to operate many, if not most, of today's weapons system for a decade or more.

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Thus, it can be foreseen that the process of transformation will in fact be a two-stage process; first of transition, then of more thoroughgoing transformation.

Pages 26 & 27
Moreover, the creation of middle-weight, independent units will begin the process of transforming the Army for future contingency needs.

Page 28
Most profoundly, such new units and concepts would give the process of transformation a purpose within the Army; soldiers would be a part of the process and take its lesson to heart, breaking down bureaucratic resistance to change.

Page 29
The process of transformation would be reinvigorated.

Page 37
A gradual increase in Air Force spending back to a $110 billion to $115 billion level is required to increase service personnel strength; build new units, especially the composite wings required to perform the "air constabulary missions" such as no-fly zones; add the support capabilities necessary to complement the fleet of tactical aircraft; reinvest in space capabilities and begin the process of transformation.

Page 38
Finally, the Air Force should use some of its increased budget and the savings from the cancellation of the Joint Strike Fighter program to accelerate the process of transformation within the service, to include developing new space capabilities.

Page 51
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.

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The expense associated with some programs can make them roadblocks to the larger process of transformation - the Joint Strike Fighter program, at a total approximately $200 billion, seems an unwise investment.

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Any successful process of transformation must be linked to the services, which are the institutions within t he Defense Department with the ability and the responsibility for linking budget and resources to specific missions.

Page 58
Much has been written in recent years about the need to transform the conventional armed forces of the United States to take advantage of the "revolution in military affairs," the process of transformation within the Defense Department has yet to bear serious fruit.

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Until the process of transformation is treated as an enduring mission - the worthy of a constant allocation of dollars and forces - it will remain stillborn.

Page 59
Third, and perhaps the most telling, the process of transformation has yet to be linked to the strategic tasks necessary to maintain American military dominance.

Page 60
Although it may take several decades for the process of transformation to unfold, in time, the art of warfare on air, land, and sea will be vastly different than it is today, and "combat likely will take place in new dimensions: in space, "cyber-space," and perhaps the world of microbes.

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This is merely a glimpse of the possibilities inherent in the process of transformation, not a precise prediction.

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Indeed, these capabilities are sufficient to begin an "interim," short-medium-term process of transformation right away, creating new force designs and operational concepts - designs and concepts different than those contemplated by the current defense program - to maximize the capabilities that already exist.

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Until the process of transformation is treated as an enduring military mission - worthy of a constant allocation of dollars and forces - it will remain stillborn.

Pages 60 & 61
This is especially debilitating to the process of transformation, which has become infected with a "lowest common denominator" approach.

Page 61
"Jointless" remains an important dimension of U.S. military power and it will be necessary to consider the joint role of the weapons, concepts of operations and organizations created through the process of transformation.

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Yet, the process of transformation will be better served by fostering a spirit of service competition and experimentation.

Page 62
As argued above, the two-stage process of transforming the U.S. armed forces is sufficiently important to consider it a separate mission for the military services and for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Yet this initial process of transformation must be just the first step toward a more radical reconfiguring of the Army.

Page 63
While initiating the process of transformation in the near term, and while fielding new kinds of units to meet current missions, the Army must simultaneously invest and experiment vigorously to create the systems, soldiers, units and concepts to maintain American preeminence in land combat for the longer-term future.

27 times is the "Process Of Transformation" mentioned. Do you think it's something they cared about?

Do you think America's Defenses have undergone a "Process Of Transformation" since 9/11 happened? Considering America's military is now taking part in two wars, and are on the verge of a third, I think it's safe to say that they have.

Isn't it interesting that a lot of the individuals affiliated with the PNAC, like Dick Cheney (http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5399) for instance, are associated with those corporations that would benefit the most from a "Process of Transformation" in America's Military?

Don't you think we, as citizens of these United States, should REALLY take a look at 9/11? Especially when you consider that the very people that called for this "process of transformation" are still in office today, and have lied to us about everything else?

I think we should. Before it happens again, and the "Process Of Transformation" becomes the "Death Of America."

[Gold9472]

27x it was said. You think they cared about whether or not this "Process Of Tranformation" took place?

[Chana3812]

bunch of fucking psycopaths!

[Partridge]

Wow! If a schoolkid used the same phrase that many times in an essay they'd be told to go buy a Thesarus! :P

That is fucked up though. Especially this bit: "combat likely will take place in new dimensions: in space, "cyber-space," and perhaps the world of microbes."

They are admitting that this 'process of transformation' will "perhaps" include a transition to bio-warfare.

Mircobe: (http://www.answers.com/microbes&r=67) n. A minute life form; a microorganism, especially a bacterium that causes disease.

[AuGmENTor]

They might as well call it, "Gearing up to take over the world." Or, "World Domination for fun and profit (Mostly for profit)" I am the only person alive that wants to be a damn hermit? (A hermit with a sattelite and electricity HEHE)

[Partridge]

They might as well call it, "Gearing up to take over the world." Or, "World Domination for fun and profit (Mostly for profit)"

Well, it basically admits as much right there in the text...


Page 59
Third, and perhaps the most telling, the process of transformation has yet to be linked to the strategic tasks necessary to maintain American military dominance.

[Gold9472]

This one stood out for me...

Until the process of transformation is treated as an enduring military mission - worthy of a constant allocation of dollars and forces - it will remain stillborn.

[Gold9472]

Does the "War On Terror" sound like an "enduring military mission"?

[Gold9472]

A war that "won't end in our lifetimes"...

[AuGmENTor]

Yeah man I had never thought of it that way. And they're doin it right under our noses in Times New Roman, and we're watching them do it. WTF, I guess what will be will be.

[Gold9472]

Doing what under our noses... calling for something like a "New Pearl Harbor" so that the "revolutionary change" they want, brings about an "enduring military mission" before it becomes "stillborn"?

[AuGmENTor]

Yes that's EXACTLY what I mean. These documents exist. How can people know this and support out government?

[Gold9472]

Yes that's EXACTLY what I mean. These documents exist. How can people know this and support out government?

"people know this"... you mean these (http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11935) people?

[AuGmENTor]

"people know this"... you mean these (http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11935) people?Yes, that's who I mean.

[Chana3812]

Sad, but true ..... America is full of dumb asses

[Gold9472]

Rumsfeld: 9/11 Created 'Sense of Urgency' for Transformation

http://www.blackanthem.com/News/International_21/Rumsfeld_9_11_Created_Sense_of_Urgency_for_Transfo rmation2654.shtml

By Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service
Dec 9, 2006 - 4:14:55 PM

Blackanthem Military News, WASHINGTON, D.C. – The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and concerns that another similar attack might follow, gave Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld "a tremendous sense of urgency" in pushing his transformation effort, he told Pentagon workers today.^

Rumsfeld said today at his 42nd and last town hall meeting as defense secretary that the Sept. 11 attacks underscored the importance of the transformation program he announced Sept. 10, 2001.

"Anyone who lives through Sept. 11 and then sees in their mind's eye the prospects of a Sept. 11 times two or three or four, six months out, has to ask themselves, 'What ought we be doing today to prevent that coming (attack) six months from now?" Rumsfeld said to the audience of hundreds of servicemembers, civilian employees and contractors at the Pentagon and a worldwide TV audience watching on the Pentagon Channel.

"What can we do to prevent it from happening?" he asked. "What can we do to mitigate its effects were it to happen?'

Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Rumsfeld said the national security apparatus is still too slow and unresponsive to meet the country's urgent security needs, but that progress is happening.

The secretary referred to a report that Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once gave President Bush on DoD's transformation effort. On a scale of 1 to 10, Pace gave it an 8 in terms of attitude and culture and a 4 for progress.

As he prepares to leave office, Rumsfeld said he'd upgrade the number for progress to a 5.

"The important thing is that there has been ... a change in people's approach" and a recognition that the way people operated in the 20th century isn't good enough in the 21st century, he said.

"We're simply going to have to be wiser and more agile and more skillful, and we're going to have to be able to do different things," Rumsfeld said. "We're being challenged asymmetrically by irregular warfare, by people who operate totally differently than the way people operated in World War II."

That's a challenge Rumsfeld acknowledged still isn't well understood in the United States. But he said it's increasingly recognized in DoD.

"I think the major sign of progress is the fact that the senior people in this department today are overwhelmingly people who understand that and who are attracting people in their activities who also understand it," he said.

This creates an energy and impetus that propels the "transforming process," a term Rumsfeld said describes the effort better than "transformation."

"'Transformation' leads you to believe you started untransformed and suddenly you're transformed, which isn't the case, because the world's not static. It's dynamic; it's changing," he said. "And we need to continue to transform as we go along."

Rumsfeld shared Pace's assertion that for the United States to meet the challenges posed by violent extremists, other governmental institutions involved in the effort must also undergo a transforming process. He noted that most of them, like DoD, were formed "in the aftermath of World War II for a very different world and a very different set of circumstances."

"This first conflict of the 21st century is so different, just enormously different from the World War II conflict," he said. "And yet the institutions -- the committees of Congress, the subcommittee system in Congress, the turf fights over jurisdiction that exist and the micromanagement of the bureaucracy -- in so many instances leads to a situation where the bureaucracy can't respond."

Rumsfeld said that overcoming these barriers and promoting change has been a big driver throughout his term as defense secretary. "I have felt just an enormous sense of urgency these years," he told the audience. He paused for effect, then added with a smile, "Some of you may have noticed."

[Gold9472]

bump

[Chana3812]

good bump = transformation !!

[Gold9472]

Screwloosechange has attempted to "debunk (http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2007/09/just-asking-questions.html)" this article. Of course, they only addressed one question. Lackadaisically I might add. I responded with...

Make sure everyone reads what the "process of transformation" is really about starting with "Chapter V: Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" pg. 50

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So could someone please explain how this all has been significantly accelerated by the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan?

Part of the "process of transformation" called for a "constant allocation of dollars," and the only way they would achieve that is through an "Enduring Military Mission". Something like a war that won't end in our lifetimes, like say... the "War On Terror" perhaps? Gee, how much has been spent on the military since our invasions? What's the Iraq War estimated to cost the taxpayers? $1Trillion?

Get a clue.