By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Mar 10, 2008 7:17:36 EDT
Mention "roles and missions" around the Pentagon, and brows furrow as the battle cry goes out: Protect the turf!
A new report from a House panel on the topic hopes to jump-start the arduous process of breaking down those sorts of walls — not only within the Pentagon, still operating largely under a Cold War construct that is grappling with new concepts such as cyber-warfare, but in an intelligence community that is dealing with the complexities of tracking shadowy terrorists around the world, and a State Department that is shifting gears from "genteel diplomacy" to demanding volunteers for provincial reconstruction teams.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/03/military_rolesandmissions_030708w/
HASC Press release at http://armedservices.house.gov/apps/list/press/armedsvc_dem/RMrelease030708.shtml
Report at http://armedservices.house.gov/pdfs/Reports/HASCRolesandMissionsPanelReport.pdf
