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Col. G.I. Wilson & Maj. Donald Vandergriff • 79modern_business_strategy/wilson/boyd_symposium_1997.htm31 R. Slater, Jack Welch and the GE way (1st ed.), (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999), 97.32 Lisa Burgess, “Army Captains Offered up to $35,000 to stay,” Stars and Stripes, September 19,2007, http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,149817,00.html33 Chet Richards, A Swift, Elusive Sword: What if Sun Tzu and John Boyd Did a National Defense Review,(Washington, D.C.: Center for Defense Information, May 2001)34 James Bennett, “So Many Officers Too Little to Do,” Washington Monthly, (Washington, D.C.:Washington Monthly, February 1990), 4. Though this article was written 18 years ago, unfortunately,nothing has changed.35 U.S. Army, “OPMS: Issues and Answers,” (unpublished briefing, Washington, D.C., U.S. ArmyHuman Resources Command, February 2006), S-2.36 Donald E. Vandergriff, “An Invisible Revolution Sparked 3rd ID’s Success,” Voice of the Grunt,(October 2003)37 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_Combat_Team38 U.S. Army, “Army Force Generation,” Army Knowledge Online, http://www.army.mil/aps/07/addendum/h.html39 U.S. Army, “The COHORT System: Is it meeting the Army’s Needs?”, (Washington, D.C., U.S.Army, June 6, 1988), 3. This was the last Army effort at unit manning at the company and battalionlevel from 1980-1990. “In its basic form, COHORT model sought to create an environment inwhich soldiers would feel a more genuine attachment to their fellow soldiers and to their units.”Though considered successful by those who participated, and by the results of unit performance,the U.S. Army abolished the program at the end of the Gulf War citing that it was too difficultto maintain.40 John Tillson, “Impact of Tempo,” pp. 13-15.41 Mark Lewis, “Time to Regenerate: A GenX Response to Dr. Wong’s Monograph,” (Arlington, VA:November 2000).42 http://www.shsu.edu/~mls_www/Opportunities/smp/smp.html43 http://www.amu.apus.edu/44 R. A. Lutz, Guts (1st ed.), (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1998), 196-197.