[sinanju]

I thought ol’ Bob S. McNamara did exactly that back in the sixties?

[Doe Eyes]

From the article:

"In ordering the cuts, Gates said the military had succumbed over the years to “brass creep,” by adding a disproportionate number of jobs at the top. The number of four-star generals and admirals today, for instance, is roughly the same as in 1971, during the Vietnam War, even though the number of active-duty troops has shrunk by half."

[Graybeard58]

I thought ol’ Bob S. McNamara did exactly that back in the sixties?

In 1965 we had 17 general officers living on our air base........Directly across the Potomac from the pentagon.