Military Opposes Reforms

A new study proposing to overhaul the Pentagon by reorganizing the military’s top chain of command drew criticism from the Defense Department. The report by the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies, which will be formally released next month, proposes the reorganization as a way of trying to eliminate long-standing rivalries among the four services. Many of the proposals are similar to reforms advocated in earlier studies, most of which said inter-service rivalries waste money and make for poor military advice to civilian leaders.