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Chiarelli: Future Success Means Empowering Small-Unit Soldiers, Leaders

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Friday, February 25th, 2011

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By Ann Roosevelt FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--Today's operating environment has inverted the traditional pyramidal of information flowing up to senior leaders, in favor of pushing more information to non-commissioned officers and enlisted soldiers who make game-changing decisions in the battlespace, said Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli. At the Association of the United States Army winter symposium here Wednesday, Chiarelli said the small unit, the squad, and platoon have "become the decisive element of our formations" in the presence of…

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