Army Magazine and AUSA News Articles about the Chief of Staff of the Army
This year’s Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting and Exposition will highlight the Army’s efforts to transform, modernize and restructure for the future fight.
Facing unprecedented global volatility, rapidly evolving technology and changes in the character of warfare, the U.S. needs all components of its Total Army, the service’s top officer said.
An Army Olympian and a new initiative to encourage professional writing across the force are the August highlights of the Association of the U.S. Army’s “Army Matters” podcast.
First up, on Aug. 14, is a podcast featuring Staff Sgt. Leonard Korir, who competed in the men’s marathon in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. He completed the Aug. 10 event with a time of 2 hours, 18 minutes and 45 seconds.
Retired Gen. Gordon Sullivan, the 32nd Army chief of staff and former president and CEO of the Association of the U.S. Army, was laid to rest May 10 at Arlington National Cemetery.
Sullivan died Jan. 2. He was 86.
Speaking during the service in Memorial Chapel at Fort Myer, Virginia, Mark Sullivan summed up his father in three words: “Great American soldier.”
“That’s what he was,” Mark Sullivan said. “If you take it all away—the rank, the awards—what we have is the heart and soul of a great citizen, a great servant, a great soldier.”
With about six months to go, the Army is on pace to meet its recruiting goals for the fiscal year, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said.
“While I don’t want to be overconfident because we have six more months in the fiscal year, if we continue to perform as we have, there’s an excellent chance we’ll meet our recruiting goal this year of 55,000 soldiers and 5,000 in the delayed entry program,” Wormuth told the House Armed Services Committee.
In today’s complex and volatile world, the Army must transform—and transform quickly, the service’s top leaders testified April 10 on Capitol Hill.
“The world is more volatile today than I have seen it in my 36-year career,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George said. “A spark in any region can have global impacts. Meanwhile, the character of war is changing rapidly. Our Army is as important as ever to the joint force. We must deter war everywhere and be ready to respond anywhere.”
While the Army must transform for the future, it also must move with urgency to contend with today’s increasingly volatile and complex
The Army must move with urgency as it faces an increasingly “volatile” world and rapidly evolving technology, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George said.
On today’s battlefield, “there is no place to hide,” George said during remarks March 7 at the McAleese Defense Programs Conference in Washington, D.C. “Everything and everyone can be seen, whether by a satellite, a phone or the Internet of Things, and what can be seen can be killed.”
Today’s Army demands leaders with physical and moral courage, said retired Gen. Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the 39th Army chief of staff.
The Army must move with a sense of urgency as it contends with an increasingly volatile and complex world, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George said.
“The difference today is the tech disruption we’ve had, the volatility is completely different, and just how fast things are spinning on the tech side,” George said Feb. 6 during an Association of the U.S. Army Coffee Series event. “I think it’s completely different from what we’ve seen, and there’s a lot of implications with that and how we do business and how we change.”
