Famous article

[Administrator]

In 1971, then Army Col. Robert D. Heinl Jr. penned what remains today one of the most famous articles published in Armed Forces Journal’s 144-year history. “The collapse of the armed forces” was a damning assessment of the morale, discipline and battle-worthiness of the U.S. military. Heinl wrote: “the trouble of the services … is above all a crisis of soul and backbone. It entails — the word is not too strong — something very near a collapse of the command authority and leadership George Washington saw as the soul of the military forces. This collapse results, at least in part, from a concurrent collapse of public confidence in the military establishment.”

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2007/03/2536721