Leaders Describe Army’s Transformation in Green Book

Leaders Describe Army’s Transformation in Green Book

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If there’s one word to describe Army Secretary Christine Wormuth’s tenure so far, it’s “transformation.”

“We know we have to change,” she said in an interview in the Association of the U.S. Army’s 2024–2025 Green Book. “We need to go from an Army focused on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism to an Army focused on and ready for large-scale combat operations against near-peer, nation state-level threats.”

To get there, the Army is making “a lot of changes,” Wormuth said, while contending with the most dangerous security environment she has seen in her professional lifetime and relatively flat Army budgets.

“I think we’re going in the right direction, but we have to be realistic,” Wormuth said. “It’s not the autobahn. We’re hiking up the Alps in a rainstorm. But the important thing is, we’re going in the right direction, [and] we have to stay the course.”

Published as AUSA hosts its Annual Meeting and Exposition Oct. 14–16 in Washington, D.C., the Green Book also features exclusive interviews with Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Weimer, Army National Guard Director Lt. Gen. Jonathan Stubbs and Army Reserve Chief Lt. Gen. Robert Harter.

To read the senior leader articles, click here.

Also in the Green Book is a comprehensive update from each of the Army’s nine cross-functional teams on the service’s modernization efforts, a Year in Review of major Army developments, a guide to the Army’s installations and listings of key command and staff, Army Reserve Ambassadors and Civilian Aides to the Secretary of the Army.

George, who has been the Army’s top general for a little more than a year, continues to push the Army to adapt and transform quickly. One key initiative is “transforming in contact,” which puts emerging and new technology in soldiers’ hands so they can experiment, learn and provide feedback that senior Army leaders can use to shape the future force.

“We knew we needed to transform,” George said, “and I’m seeing that everywhere I go, a real culture of transformation, people understanding that the world is very volatile, that technology is rapidly advancing, and we need to do the things that are necessary to make sure that we are advancing, not with it, but ahead of it, and staying ahead of it.”

Premium members of AUSA will receive their copies of the Green Book by mail or email. A limited number of copies will be distributed at the Annual Meeting.

It is available for download here.

For more information on the Annual Meeting, click here.