
At his formal swearing-in ceremony as the 23rd Secretary of the Army, Mark Esper said the service’s most daunting task is to fulfill its current obligations while preparing to fight future wars.“The Army is at a critical inflection point in its history, not unlike what it faced at the end of other long wars, except the one we’ve been fighting in now for 17 years hasn’t ended,” Esper said. “In my first few weeks as secretary, it is clear to…