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The Joint Force Must Accelerate Change, General Says

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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.--In the coming years, the U.S. military will not face wars with clearly defined beginnings and ends, so it must become more versatile and adaptable, according to the commander of U. S. Joint Forces Command and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation. "This is the greatest rethinking in a century," Marine Gen. James Mattis told the AFCEA, U.S. Naval Institute co-sponsored Joint Warfighting 09 conference here yesterday. "We've got to adapt now, we've got to continue…

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