The irony of the blistering attack that Brad R. Carson, the Defense Department's top personnel official, endured last week at his confirmation hearing to become under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness is that many of his "Force of the Future" ideas might survive the likely demise of his own nomination. Even as Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee pilloried Carson, accusing him of exceeding his authority and ignoring the committee and its oversight responsibilities, no senator vigorously attacked or threatened to rollback any individual Force of the Future initiate that Defense Secretary Ash Carter has implemented in the past year, a senior Defense official noted.
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