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Army Must Focus On Connecting And Surviving In The Current Environment, VCOS Says

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Monday, March 2nd, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--The Army must focus on improving how it connects, survives and builds its systems to meet the challenges of an environment of persistent engagement, according to the Vice Chief of Staff. The focus needs to be on "connectivity, commonality and survivability," Gen. Peter Chiarelli told the Association of the United States Army Institute for Land Warfare Winter Symposium here Feb. 26. In increasingly dynamic operations that can change and escalate in minutes, it is the…

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