Adding to my previous post, Einstein is supposed to have said "Idiocy is repeating the same thing in the hopes of a different outcome." That applies to adding another bureaucratic layer.
Good lord. More rearranging the deck chairs. How many more commands do we need? We already have SOF as a separate command and I lived through the J Staff, Canada Command. CEFCOM, CJOC, and all the rest. Now the Army’s restructuring. Enough is enough. Stop messing around and rearranging things and get on with business.
In this case... It is mot really adding any bureaucracy. In fact, it should strip away some bureaucratic shackles in terms of collaboration on things like IADS & EW... Or critical topica like Force Generation of enablers.
It makes 0 sense that Force Generators for operational outputs currently reside in otherwise fully bureaucratic/administrative L1s. I'm thinking here of CF MP Gp in the VCDS shop or CAF Health Svcs Gp in Chief of Military Personnel (to which 1 Cdn Fd Hospital & the "Army's" Field Ambulance units belong). Placing more Force Generation/operational emphasis on these orgs just sounds like a good idea. & It lets VCDS /CMP focus as well (& my RUMINT is a merger of CMP & ADM(HR-CIV) so that all HR is finally in 1 L1?)
Awesome. More generals. More staff in Ottawa. The increasing size of the NDHQ staff - which is hardly subject to the personnel shortages afflicting the rest of the Canadian services - is a sure sign that things will speed up and improve. After all, if 135 generals and admirals, and a couple hundred EXs brought us this far, imagine how much further another couple dozen generals, admirals and EXs will take us!
Just speculating here, but cut all the colonels/generals/admirals/EXs by 50%, give some actual live responsibility to their juniors, and stop rewarding not making mistakes! The last dozen officers in charge of recruiting have failed, but they didn't make mistakes, so...no career impact. Reward success. If hard men and women rise as a consequence, insufferable assholes who ride roughshod over those who get in their way, this is a good thing. Embrace achievement in all its messy glory.
So does this superseded CJOC and other directorates or is just part of everyone else now?
As far as I know this is complementary. However I have sent an email with a few questions.
Adding to my previous post, Einstein is supposed to have said "Idiocy is repeating the same thing in the hopes of a different outcome." That applies to adding another bureaucratic layer.
Good lord. More rearranging the deck chairs. How many more commands do we need? We already have SOF as a separate command and I lived through the J Staff, Canada Command. CEFCOM, CJOC, and all the rest. Now the Army’s restructuring. Enough is enough. Stop messing around and rearranging things and get on with business.
In this case... It is mot really adding any bureaucracy. In fact, it should strip away some bureaucratic shackles in terms of collaboration on things like IADS & EW... Or critical topica like Force Generation of enablers.
It makes 0 sense that Force Generators for operational outputs currently reside in otherwise fully bureaucratic/administrative L1s. I'm thinking here of CF MP Gp in the VCDS shop or CAF Health Svcs Gp in Chief of Military Personnel (to which 1 Cdn Fd Hospital & the "Army's" Field Ambulance units belong). Placing more Force Generation/operational emphasis on these orgs just sounds like a good idea. & It lets VCDS /CMP focus as well (& my RUMINT is a merger of CMP & ADM(HR-CIV) so that all HR is finally in 1 L1?)
Awesome. More generals. More staff in Ottawa. The increasing size of the NDHQ staff - which is hardly subject to the personnel shortages afflicting the rest of the Canadian services - is a sure sign that things will speed up and improve. After all, if 135 generals and admirals, and a couple hundred EXs brought us this far, imagine how much further another couple dozen generals, admirals and EXs will take us!
Just speculating here, but cut all the colonels/generals/admirals/EXs by 50%, give some actual live responsibility to their juniors, and stop rewarding not making mistakes! The last dozen officers in charge of recruiting have failed, but they didn't make mistakes, so...no career impact. Reward success. If hard men and women rise as a consequence, insufferable assholes who ride roughshod over those who get in their way, this is a good thing. Embrace achievement in all its messy glory.