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Jack Dragoni

Veterans News and Views

Jack Dragoni attended Boston College and served in the U.S. Army in Berlin and Vietnam. He resides in Chaffee, Missouri.

National military strategy changes

Thursday, July 9, 2015

General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be retiring soon, and before his departure he gave a briefing at the Pentagon discussing the first update since 2011 of the National Military Strategy. According to Dempsey, the update was necessary because since the last update, "global disorder has trended upward while some of our comparative advantages have begun to erode."

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