Captain Douglas K. Zimrnerman, U.S.
Army, Military Review, (Feb. 1988)
USACGSC, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 66027-
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The U.S. Army, for more than a decade, has been trying to put more active duty soldiers in combat units, fewer in rear-echelon supply and maintenance outfits-"more tooth, less tail."
Captain Zimrnerman, a systems analyst, argues that this policy-cou- pled with low reserves of men and materiel and unrealistic Pentagon mobi- lization plans-has made it unlikely that...