Transforming resource management to support an Army at war: the Army's chief financial officer examines three priorities for best use of the nation's money.
The Public Manager › Vol. 36 Nbr. 4, December 2007
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Transforming resource management to support an Army at war: the Army's chief financial officer examines three priorities for best use of the nation's money.
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All managers, in both the public and private sectors, recognize that money is an essential element for meeting institutional objectives. While it might seem a bit of a stretch, the case can be made that money is an important weapon for today's Army. General Dave Petraeus, now senior U.S. military commander in Iraq, popularized this concept of money as a weapon when he commanded the 101st Airborne Division in the initial ground campaign of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In that role, he recognized that cash could be used on the battlefield to achieve positive results with local communities (building schools and clinics, buying intelligence, and so forth), and he later described money as the most powerful ammunition at his disposal in fighting the war. General Petraeus, of course, had a real-time, tactical perspective on money. As the Army's chief financial officer, I view money as a weapon in a more strategic sense, as something the Army uses to deliver require...See the full content of this document
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