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Bonham Carter and Elwes on working with Director Trevor Nunn and the cast of Lady Jane...
Directed by Trevor Nunn...
...their Senate speeches, Nunn and Goldwater charged that interservice hostility risks defeat in battle. Although the services in each of the six regional commands are supposed to report to a single commander-in-chief (in the Pacific, a Navy admiral; in Europe, an Army general), in practice they remain virtually autonomous. To his colleagues in the Senate, Nunn declared, "I regret to report to you that we have unified commanders but divided commands...
...Force, for instance, is chronically unwilling to provide air cover for ground troops in the field, and the Navy is reluctant to buy ships to transport the Army. Turf battles surface most glaringly in actual combat. The invasion of Grenada in 1983 was a walk-over, said Senator Nunn, but only because the defenders were few and poorly armed. Coordination among the services was abysmal. Nunn cited the case of one Army officer who, unable to reach the Navy because of incompatible communication systems, had to use his AT&T credit card to phone his office in North Carolina...
...lives--was attributed partly to signals lost or mixed up in the endless command chain. Bureaucracies inevitably breed officers who have little better to do than trip over one another. The U.S. fought World War II with 101 three-star generals and admirals; now there are 118. Observed Nunn: "It takes more admirals and generals to wage peace than...