Check out this at one of my favorite naval blogs. It's a typical daily schedule for your typical admiral on staff duty in the U.S. Navy. Do you know how many flag officers it takes to run the U.S. Navy? You can go to the Naval Register to find out: a search just for active duty two-star admirals returns 73 names. The total number of admirals exceeds the number of warships in the fleet.
Secretary Gates wants to cut "more than a hundred general-officer and flag-officer positions out of the roughly 900 currently on the books." Meanwhile, the US Naval Institute blog is filled with multiple entries on leadership at the highest levels of the Navy and the lack thereof.
The thing about leadership is that it's one of those less-is-more kind of things.
Secretary Gates wants to cut "more than a hundred general-officer and flag-officer positions out of the roughly 900 currently on the books." Meanwhile, the US Naval Institute blog is filled with multiple entries on leadership at the highest levels of the Navy and the lack thereof.
The thing about leadership is that it's one of those less-is-more kind of things.