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stimulating. Davis had hoped for a procurement process be increased. book, one that "will stand up for the
maximum critical mass of 55-40 And what was the end result? A next five to ten years. I want it to be
participants at both conferences. But 58 consensus that the chairman of the the baseline document. . . that all
showed up for fhé second €0¤f€f€f1€€ at joint Chiefs needs to be stronger, and arguments will start with our book."
UK, many of them VIPs who more or that defense planning mechanisms Whether the consensus produces
l less invited themselves. need to be fined-tuned. concrete changes will probably be
2 In the first conference, at Harvard, Davis compared the chairman of jCS determined during the first half of
,. "academic-typepeople`? like Davis to the chairman of a university 1985, Davis said. "I`ve said all along
talked to the practitioners, who committee. "Professors are prima that defense reorganization was so
"corrected the scholarly tendency to donnas; so are admirals and generals. inherently controversial that change
veer off into the abstract," he said. You can't walk into a board room in was only possible in (a President's)
That conference focused on what the academia or government and say "this honeymoon — and then only if the
United States could learn from other is what we're going to do.' There is President wants to make it an issue."
countries. But Davis said there was an entrenched bureaucracy in Much depends on who is defense
little that could be applied from the government and in academia. And each secretary, should Weinberger leave,
experience of other countries, mainly of the branches of the military are Davis said. Then, too, Reagan has not
because of the unique constitutional wary of proposals that might expressed an interest in tackling
emphasis in the U.S. on the distinction jeopardize their autonomy. organizational issues — unless they are
between civilians and the military. "The task of trying to impose money savers. "These recommenda-
During the second conference at UK, orderly centralization — synthesis — tions are not necessarily money savers,
academicians corrected the has always run up against basic but they are a way to get more
practitioners' tendency "to stay too neuroses," Davis said. "Change is not efficiency; a more rational policy,"
close to the tree that they can’t see the impossible, but it happens at glacial Davis said.
forest," Davis said. That meeting speed." "It hinges largely on who their [ the
focused on such areas as chain of Davis believes that the conferences Reagan administration] key
· COfIII`I`13l`lCl lSSLl€S, lDLlClg€[ PIOCCSS Hfld HIC PHIT of 8. HCW COHSEHSUS f3VOI'lI`1g appointments 8l'€." Pleased HI the
weapons process issues and strategy reorganization, and that they will success of his initial venture, Davis said
I making. The summary paper was "help prod it along." he is hoping to persuade the Ford
delivered by former Defense Secretary One tangible result of the project is Foundation to finance another, similar
james Schlesinger, who put forward an a book, scheduled for publication in project — this one on the linkage of
agenda for reforming the system. Spring 1985, which incorporates the State Department and National
Among Schlesinger's recommendations papers from the two conferences and Security Council.
were that the hiring system be other contributions. Entitled
revamped, the structure of the joint Reorganizing American'; Defenrer: Maria Braden ir an arrociate proferror
Chiefs of Staff changed, and the Leaderrhip in War and Peace, the in the Sc/200/ of journalirm and a writer
flexibility of the nation`s military volume is a key part of the project. for the UK Rerearch Foundation.
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