Lack of CENTCOM Strategy Difficult for DoD, Says TSG’s Jones
- November 7, 2019
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Syria – Military Times interviewed experts including The SPECTRUM Group’s Major General Michael Jones, USA, Ret., on the U.S.’s recent and abrupt troop withdrawal from Syria and strategic decisions in the broader CENTCOM region.
From the article:
“There doesn’t appear to be much strategy going on at all, aside from piecemeal political decisions,” said Mike Jones, a retired Army major general who served as CENTCOM’s chief of staff.
“If there was some kind of apparent strategy, then maybe I could make some sense of it. And of course, that’s very frustrating, because what the military would love to have is some coherent policy and strategy that it could work from, rather than just discrete planning endeavors to account for whatever the latest idea is.”
General Jones (Ret.) co-leads The SPECTRUM Group’s Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Team.