Key Army leaders believe the service’s personnel system needs an overhaul. But the effort to do so likely would encounter considerable resistance from “an ingrained, unspoken culture” that affects the process, the Association of the U.S. Army reported. A panel of experts addressed the issue during an Oct. 18 discussion before an audience at AUSA’s annual exposition in Washington, D.C.
Leonard Wong, a military-strategy professor at the Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, cited “those discreet things that influence decision-making, that quietly affect our behavior that we never speak about.” These factors amount to “cultural lines of defense,” Wong added.
Ultimately, Wong said, the chances for necessary change rest upon the shoulders of the Army’s senior uniformed leaders.
