Streamlined command structure reforms are under way.
But that pales in comparison with Mr. Serdyukov's goals: eliminating nearly 200,000 officers, including 200 generals; reducing the central headquarters staff by 60 percent; and adopting a streamlined command structure that, like the United States Army, focuses on deployable brigades rather than larger division structures.
Available games include Minions, which is reminiscent of a streamlined Command and Conquer, a platform game called Buggle Stars, and updates to Flash Element TD and Desktop Tower Defense.
In the area of disaster response, recommendations by the 9/11 panel to strengthen and streamline command-and-control procedures during major disasters had mixed success, commissioners found.
Congo recalled dozens of officers to the capital, Kinshasa, and streamlined the command structure.
The measures include ending conscription, reducing the Bundeswehr, or armed forces, to 163,000 from 250,000 and streamlining the command structures.
His plan called for reducing the force size to 163,000 from about 250,000 today, streamlining the command structure, closing military bases and freezing conscription.
General Miller also recommended streamlining the command structure at the prisons, much as was done when military intelligence and military police units were merged when he took command of Joint Task Force Guantánamo in November 2002.
Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White also picked up on the theme of transforming the American military, saying the Army needed to streamline its command structure to give field officers more authority, possibly by eliminating divisions.
While Mr. Guttenberg has also proposed slashing the size of the armed forces, or Bundeswehr, and streamlining the command structure to produce a more nimble military, it was his decision to press for an all-volunteer force that ran into the headwinds of history.
The Pentagon today gave additional indications of how it might restructure its forces, urging the services to operate jointly to respond more effectively in the opening hours of a conflict and saying that the Army needed to streamline its command structure, possibly by eliminating divisions.
