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...force would permit the Army to cut its 10 divisions to six and the Marines its three divisions to two, according to some defense experts. Air Force fighters could fall from nearly 1,000 to 400, and the Navy's carrier fleet could shrink from 12 to 10. Lawrence Korb, a top Pentagon official during the Reagan years, agrees with McPeak's estimate that scaling back to a force for "one war plus deterrence" could save about $50 billion annually, or about 20% of the defense budget...
...tours in Vietnam, second in his class at the Army's Command and General Staff College. But Powell's finest hours were in the Pentagon. Serving as military aide to a series of top civilian officials, he impressed each one with his loyalty, intelligence and political skill. Lawrence Korb, an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, calls Powell "as astute a politician as I've met." After serving as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser, Powell rejoined the Army in 1989. But within a year George Bush promoted him to become, at 52, the youngest ever Chairman...
...ever come to light. Working for Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Powell did have a small role in the Iran-contra scandal, facilitating the transfer from Army stocks of one of six missile shipments to Iran. His unrevealing congressional testimony about the affair seemed "completely out of character," says Korb. But even Lawrence Walsh, the Iran-contra special prosecutor who criticized Powell's testimony in an August 1993 report for being "at least misleading," says now that "Powell didn't say anything that was knowingly false . I myself don't think it is a significant matter...
...annual cost of all three schools approaches $1 billion. "I just don't think they're worth the money we're spending on them," says Lawrence Korb, a former Pentagon personnel chief and ex-Navy officer. "It's hard to justify the cost given the other sources we have for officers." Korb, who is not an academy grad, and other critics suggest that the academies should become multiservice, postgraduate schools, where officers-to-be train for a year or so before commissioning, like the military academies of Britain and France...
...academy graduates will have to compete against their ROTC and OCS colleagues for "regular" commissions, meaning academy graduates will initially hold "reserve" commissions, offering less protection against involuntary discharges. That's likely to depress interest in the academies even more. "Why should someone go through four years of hell," Korb asks, "when someone who doesn't go there can get a regular commission more quickly...