The Defense Department agrees with the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves that the chief of the National Guard Bureau should be elevated to four-star status and named a senior advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and through him, the Secretary of Defense, reports CongressDaily’s Megan Scully, who obtained a copy of the DOD review document used to brief Congressional staffers Wednesday. DOD apparently also agrees with the commission that the NGB chief should not have a seat on the JCS, however it doesn’t express wholehearted agreement with much else, according to Scully. The DOD position likely will further inflame the National Guard Caucus. (More in our report at right, “No Joy for Caucus or DOD.”)
The future U.S. bomber force could provide a way for the Pentagon to simultaneously deter conflict with peer adversaries in two geographically disparate theaters, said Mark Gunzinger, the director of future concepts and capability assessments at AFA's Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, during a March 21 event. But doing so…