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  Norwich University
Sullivan, who led a distinguished military career, is a 1959 graduate of Norwich and currently serves as the Chairman of the university's Board of Trustees.
General Sullivan is the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Association of the United States Army, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sullivan was commissioned a second lieutenant of Armor after being awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Norwich University in 1959.
www.norwich.edu /about/news/2004/sullivan.html   (523 words)

  
 DateThe Hollow Defense Debate An Army General Weighs In, September 1, 1998
In Reference #1, General Gordon Sullivan, a former Chief of Staff of the Army, argues that the military's readiness and modernization problems are caused by budget cuts.
General Sullivan says declining readiness is due to "lack of money." Note how he asserts, "Failure to increase defense budgets may hasten the hollowing of our forces.
Maybe, if General Sullivan and the high priests of management science had realized there are loyal and competent officers and NCOs who stay for reasons other than money, promotions, and positions of power, we wouldn't have the some of problems we have today.
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Attended by several high level active duty personnel, civilians, representatives from the local business community and soldiers, the reception was held in honour of General Gordon R Sullivan, President and Chief Operating Officer of the AUSA and the former Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
Gen Gordon Sullivan (Retd.) is not new to Kuwait.
The General remarked, “We were one of the very strong voices that helped bring about this very important change in the pay structure.” Apart from that the AUSA has played a considerable role in providing support for better housing for the soldier and his family, medical facilities and not forgetting increased educational opportunities.
www.arabtimesonline.com /arabtimes/kuwait/view.asp?msgID=7102   (619 words)

  
 CRS 95-1170F Revolution in Military Affairs?
By 1984, the Chief of the Soviet General Staff was expressing his concern that the emergence of "automated reconnaissance and strike complexes," including new control systems and very accurate long-range precision weapons, would bring the destructive potential of conventional weapons closer to that of weapons of mass destruction.
General Gordon Sullivan, until recently Army Chief of Staff, was one of the main proponents of carefully examining how the Army should move away from a Cold War orientation and doctrine.
Sullivan consistently fostered an approach to the future that deliberately avoided prematurely setting fixed doctrine or acquisition goals until a clearer picture of the future Army was available.
www.fas.org /man/crs/95-1170.htm   (12100 words)

  
 General Gordon R. Sullivan - Strategic Studies Institute
GENERAL GORDON R. SULLIVAN, Chief of Staff, United States Army, was commissioned a second lieutenant of Armor and awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Norwich University in 1959.
General Sullivan also served in assignments on the Army Staff in Washington, DC, including a tour as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans and as the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army.
In June 1991, General Sullivan became Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil /pubs/people.cfm?q=214   (499 words)

  
 Keynote Speakers Inc. Gordon Sullivan : General Sullivan is the president and chief operat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
He assumed his current position at the Association in February 1998 after serving as president, Coleman Federal in Washington, D.C. Born in Boston, Massachusetts on 25 September 1937, Gordon Sullivan was commissioned a second lieutenant of Armor and awarded a bachelor of arts degree in History from Norwich University in 1959.
He is the co-author, with Michael V. Harper, of Hope Is Not a Method (Random House, 1996), which chronicles the enormous challenges encountered in transforming the post-Cold War Army through the lens of proven leadership principles and a commitment to shared values.
Gordon Sullivan is a trustee of Norwich University and serves on the boards of several major corporations, including Newell-Rubbermaid, Shell Oil and Getronics Government Solutions, L.L.C. He is also a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States and the George C. Marshall Foundation and the Chairman Emeritus of the Marshall Legacy Institute.
www.keynotespeakers.com /speaker_detail.asp?id=1254   (521 words)

  
 THE CHALLENGE OF INFORMATION WARFARE Major General Wang Pufeng
U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Gordon Sullivan holds that the information era is changing the army and will change the means of war fundamentally.
Generally speaking, a military with capacity but no means to use it cannot become a true combat power.
This is an important action to be carried out according to the general strategic plan and in coordination with strategic and combat counterattacks.
www.fas.org /irp/world/china/docs/iw_mg_wang.htm   (3115 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Hope Is Not a Method: Books: Gordon R. Sullivan,Michael V. Harper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Leading the charge on this front were General Gordon R. Sullivan, chief of staff from 1991-95, and one of his key strategic planners, Colonel Michael V. Harper.
Sullivan apparently has little experience outside of the military, and it shows.
Sullivan and Harper, with pinpoint accuracy, identify the principles which make good companies great, and great companies, untouchable.
www.amazon.ca /Hope-Not-Method-Gordon-Sullivan/dp/076790060X   (998 words)

  
 USIA News Report
Yasmin Waheed; Lt. General Jehangir Karamat, commander of 2 Corps; Major General Ali Kuli Khan Khattak, Director General of Military Intelligence; Brigadier Khalid Maqbool, Pakistani Defense and Military Attache to Washington; and Colonel Jason Greer, U.S. Army attache to Pakistan.
The general met with R. James Woolsey, Director of Central Intelligence, March 30 and with Togo West, Jr., Secretary of the Army, on March 31.
Later on March 31, Waheed was awarded the Legion of Merit, Degree of Commander, by his U.S. counterpart, General Gordon Sullivan, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.
www.globalsecurity.org /intell/library/news/1994/24840639-24843713.htm   (380 words)

  
 63rd Military Police Corps Anniversary Military Police - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Other speakers included Major General Donald Ryder, Provost Marshal General of the Army and commander of the US Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID), who spoke on the current state of CID at the opening day of the conference, and General Barry McCaffrey (Retired), who spoke at the conference dinner.
General McCaffrey, former US drug czar, recognized Brigadier General Thamer for his leadership and his Baghdad police force for their great courage.
General McCaffrey described the connection between drugs, crime, and terrorism, explaining how drug money goes to fund numerous illegal operations across the world, to include terrorism.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IBW/is_2_4/ai_n7179054   (684 words)

  
 NPR : Retired General Advocates a Larger Army
NPR : Retired General Advocates a Larger Army
Morning Edition, December 7, 2006 · Retired Gen. Gordon Sullivan, a former Army Chief of Staff, says the U.S. has stretched troop levels almost to the limit with operations in Iraq.
Sullivan tells Steve Inskeep that he thinks the U.S. should increase the size of the regular Army by about 100,000 soldiers.
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 GOP.com | Republican National Committee :: Remarks By The Vice President At The Association Of The United States Army ...
As General Sullivan probably remembers, while serving as Secretary of Defense I kept in my office a portrait of a predecessor and a personal hero, General George C. Marshall, who served, of course, more than 40 years on active duty and retired with five stars on his shoulder.
The current generation of our armed services will witness many changes in the years to come -- improvements in the tactics, strategies, and technologies of warfare -- all with the goal of building a more modular, standardized, and flexible force.
In this new generation we are seeing once again that the American soldier in battle places the mission first, never accepts defeat, never quits, and never leaves a fallen comrade.
www.gop.com /News/Read.aspx?ID=5829   (2873 words)

  
 Norwich University
Recently, General Gordon Sullivan, '59, visited the campus to contribute to the cause.
During his visit, Sullivan was videotaped discussing artifacts from his collection that will be on display in the museum and recalling memories about his time on The Hill.
In general, Petersen said, the University plans to utilize technology all throughout the exhibits by offering short films, audio technology and possibly interactive research stations that will enhance the museum experience for visitors.
www.norwich.edu /about/news/2006/sullivan_interview.html   (520 words)

  
 Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - The Revolution in Military Affairs and its Interpreters: Implications ...
General Gordon Sullivan, then Chief of Staff of the US Army, and his coauthor, LTC Anthony Coroalles, pointed out: "With this capability, commanders can now blend previously separate and discrete operations into a single and seamless whole."
General Gordon R. Sullivan and LTC Anthony M. Coroalles have focused on this aspect of the challenge of change, specifically, its accelerating pace, qualitative character, and complexity.
Gordon R. Sullivan and James M. Dubik, Land Warfare in the 21st Century (Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 1993).
fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /documents/rmapap.htm   (3476 words)

  
 The State | 12/12/2006 | Larger Army needed, retired general says   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Saying the Army is “maxed out” fighting simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, former Army chief of staff Gordon Sullivan said Monday the service needs to boost its active-duty ranks by 100,000 soldiers.
Conceding his proposal isn’t cheap, Sullivan said the United States is spending only 4 percent of its gross domestic product on defense while fighting two wars.
Sullivan said the Army could recruit more troops by bumping up its recruiting goal by 20,000 each of the next five years.
www.thestate.com /mld/state/entertainment/visual_arts/16218537.htm   (342 words)

  
 Yorkshire CND - US generals go to war on Euro-retreat - 20/5/01
When President George W Bush visits the United States navy academy at Annapolis later this week, his speech on changing America's military strategy is certain to be cheered to the rafters by a new generation of white-gloved officer graduates.
This has upset US generals and provoked warnings from both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill that defence budgets will be blocked if reforms are not properly discussed.
Admiral Dennis Blair, head of the US Pacific Command, has publicly doubted that Chinese missiles could threaten his bases while General Gordon Sullivan, army chief of staff from 1991 to 1995, said the Bush administration's preference for space defence in place of ground forces was "easy but erroneous".
cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/generals.htm   (701 words)

  
 MG Dubik
In 1992, he became a special assistant to General Gordon Sullivan, Chief of Staff, United States Army where he also held a fellowship with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Major General Dubik deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina with 1st Cavalry Division where he was the Deputy Commanding General Multinational Division North and Task Force Eagle.
While the commanding general of the 25th Infantry Division, he helped develop identify the training infrastructure changes that are necessary to train a transformed force.
www.jhuapl.edu /POW/bios/dubik.htm   (621 words)

  
 Brief History of Army ROTC
Army ROTC is not a college major; rather it is a series of elective courses taken in conjunction with a student's progress toward the baccalaureate degree.
General of the Army George C. Marshall, Army chief of staff during World War II, is a graduate of a school (Virginia Military Institute), which is part of the ROTC program.
1993: General J.H. Binford Peay III, an ROTC commissionee at Virginia Military Institute, named new Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, marking the fist time that the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chief of Staff of the Army, and Vice Chief of Staff of the Army have all been ROTC commissionees.
www.princetonreview.com /cte/articles/military/rotchist.asp   (863 words)

  
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In 1960 General George H. Decker, ROTC commissionee at Lafayette College, became the first ROTC graduate named Chief of Staff of the Army.
Air Force ROTC's Official Website ) The first Air ROTC units were established between 1920 and 1923 at the University of California at Berkeley, Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois, the University of Washington, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, chief of staff of the War Department, signed General Order No. 124, establishing Air ROTC units at 77 colleges and universities throughout the nation.
www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Reserve_Officer_Training_Corps.html   (778 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
I see another I have to single out, General Galvin, who served his country with such honor.
Exactly half a century ago, in June of 1942, as General Graves mentioned, we were at war, and I was graduating from school.
Howard D. Graves, USA, Superintendent of the Academy, and his wife, Gracie; Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA, Chief of Staff of the Army; Brig.
bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1993/93010500.html   (3051 words)

  
 Combat Armor badge debate lives on - Letters - Letter to the Editor Armor - Find Articles
However, I was not allowed to award their junior leaders CIBs, who were all Armor officers, even though they led those same infantry soldiers on patrols, combat actions, and conducted the dismounted infantry airmobile insertions and extractions.
The award of a badge for closing with and destroying the enemy can no longer be awarded to one class of persons of a particular favored branch or MOS, while discriminating against another class, but must be based on individual merit.
Would General Marshall, were he Chief of Staff today, have condoned granting a CIB to a male infantryman conducting a raid while denying it to a female military police also conducting a raid?
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAB/is_2_113/ai_114487486   (775 words)

  
 On Point - The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Gordon R. Sullivan, General, CSA, SUBJECT: "Reshaping Army Doctrine," Memorandum for Lieutenant General Frederick M. Franks, Jr., 29 July 1991.
General Gordon R. Sullivan's letter to the field titled "Force XXI," 12 March 1994.
General Gordon R. Sullivan's memorandum titled "Force XXI Experimental Force Prime Directive," 14 February 1995.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/2004/onpoint/biblio.htm   (1591 words)

  
 U.S. Representative - Silvestre Reyes
Washington, D.C. "Congress on the Border" TV Congressman Reyes' weekly television show features General Gordon Sullivan (RET), President of AUSA (Association for the United States Army).
General Gordon Sullivan (RET), President of AUSA (Association for the United States Army)
They also focus on recent legislation successes for our veterans and soldiers, including housing privatization and the 3.5 percent pay raise for military and civilian employees.
wwwc.house.gov /reyes/news_detail.asp?id=724   (215 words)

  
 Techs & Specs - National Insulation Association, Representing the Mechanical and Industrial Insulation Industry, ...
So, before everything we learned is forgotten, we owe the generation moving into the ranks of management the benefit of our experience, good and bad.
Who in our generation can forget the famous question "What did he know, and when did he know it?" These questions ultimately brought down a president.
Six years later, the question "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" led to the election of another president.
www.insulation.org /articles/article.cfm?id=IO030801   (2310 words)

  
 Amazon.frĀ : Side-By-Side: A Photographic History of American Women in Military Service: Livres en anglais: Vickie ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Foreword by Gordon R. Sullivan, General, U.S. Army (Ret); President, Association of the United States Army.
From the legendary Molly Pitcher, who loaded cannons during the American Revolution, to Rhonda Cornum, an army doctor held prisoner of war during Operation Desert Storm, millions of American women have served beside men on the world's battlefields.
GORDON R. SULLIVAN General, U.S. Army (Ret.) President, Association of the United States Army
www.amazon.fr /Side-Side-Photographic-American-Military/dp/1556709447   (782 words)

  
 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
No. 1, according to the testimony of General Shinseki, it took an average of 25 minutes of response time to be able, from the air, to get the cover necessary.
Gen Gordon Sullivan, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; President, Association of the United States Army; Commanding General, 1st Infantry Division.
Crusader was a key part of then Army Chief General Gordon Sullivan's vision to digitize land forces around the power of the microprocessor.
www.washingtonwatchdog.org /rtk/documents/cr/02/jn/19/cr19jn02-146.html   (20032 words)

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