“The fight against acronyms, adjectives and adverbs is one Kirby attacked with a handful of examples. ‘The world isn’t a dangerous place. It’s a ‘dynamic and complex international environment” Kirby mocked. ‘We didn’t tell people we were reducing to one the number of carriers in the Middle East. We told them we were responding to a ’1.0 carrier presence requirement in the CENTCOM AOR.” Faced with declining resources and a growing gap between the military and the American people, officers must communicate better, the email implored.”
