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That crackling sound you heard last week was the U.S. military shedding more of its cold war carapace. When Bill Clinton and Defense Secretary William Cohen announced that Army General H. Hugh Shelton would become the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, they were in effect introducing the country to the prototype of the new American soldier...
That's because the 6-ft. 5-in. Shelton already commands a force that the rest of the military must learn to emulate: the small (47,000 strong), highly mobile Special Operations Command, which includes Green Berets, Navy seals and other elite commandos from all branches of the military. With just 1.4% of U.S. troops, Special Ops responds to the kind of hit-and-run warfare--skirmishes, insurgencies and terrorism--that lie ahead for the nation. As Shelton recently warned Congress, the U.S. military must "transcend traditional force-on-force applications" if it is to remain "relevant...
Cohen agrees, but that's just one of the reasons he chose Shelton to succeed the current Chairman, Army General John Shalikashvili, who retires in October. Another is Shelton's squeaky-clean demeanor, which became a prerequisite after the Defense Secretary was forced to abandon his first choice for the job, Air Force General Joseph Ralston, because of the disclosure that the general had had an affair more than a decade ago. This time Cohen knew he needed a winner. After just six months as the lone Republican in Clinton's Cabinet, Cohen was already being typed as too timid...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Green Beret commander Henry Shelton is next up to run the gauntlet in hopes of emerging as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, having been recommended for the post by William Cohen. If confirmed, Shelton,55, would be the first Special Operations officer to serve as the country's military advisor supremo. The ground commander for the 1994 U.S. invasion of Haiti and the head of the Special Operations Command, Shelton is by all accounts a no-nonsense muti-service military man in a multitask world. Which fits the agenda that awaits him: smoothing...
DIED. REID SHELTON, 72, powerful baritone who originated Broadway's bighearted and deep-pocketed Daddy Warbucks in Annie; following heart surgery; in Portland...