How do we get back to the traditional basics of the miliary?

Enough of the SHARP training already!

I don't think we have the discipline and drive for the basics.

Everyone says: "we need to go back to the basics", "Traditions shouldn't change!" But, what everyone has seem to miss and/or forget - they have! The basics have now changed. What are they now? Whatever we need them to be for the situation we are in apparently, because we are still redefining ourselves as a modern military. Sure, you can reinforce some land nav - provided you don't get issues from range control, and your risk assessment, and logistics are all in order. Yeah, we can take Soldier to the range all day long - provided the Ammo is forecasted 90-days ago (goes back to planning), the range is laid on (God forbid range maintenance days), and vehicles, fuel, food are all in order. Now, lets look the budget cuts that circumvented the modern leader from training.

Here comes the EST 2000, On-line Mandatory training, and simulators (that have glitches and operations are on M, T, W, Th from 0930-1130/1130-1500) Hey, lets go to the field for a week - not when you have Command & Staff, Training Meeting, 1SG meeting, CSM Meeting, Safety Briefing, and oh by the way, Soldiers have to do barracks maintenance and have to be back in before 1600 Friday for that BN awards Ceremony. How dare you plan to train SSG! So, I now formulate the honest question - what basics are we truly going with?

The military has evolved and changed so rapidly we lost ourselves in the mix. Another thread that is rambunctious at best, all concur we need to keep traditions. Uh, too late. Your Stars, Bars and Chevrons before you took them away for whatever purpose and reason they did - where were you at to yell and fuss about keeping them then? Your results are what we have. Now, moving forward we create new standards and forget the old, because we - logistically - can't bring them back to visit them again anyway. Or do we continue to complain and ETS?

It's generally accepted that over the last decade of war, we have placed a lot of standards to the side in order to facilitate the war effort. Over the course of the war, there has been a great deal of institutional change and lessons learned. Now, my question(s) are the following;
If, in the course of our war fighting, which is the primary mission for our Armed Forces, we set certain standards aside as being irrelevant to the war effort, and the mission was a success, does that not indicate that those standards may not be needed?
If so, now that the wars are winding down, why would we reinstate those standards? Is that not just ignoring a decades worth of lessons learned? Is it wise to institute standards that we know are obsolete to the actual mission for the sake of "well, we don't have anything else to focus on without a mission"?
Should we not be examining our performance over the last decade and creating NEW standards based off of lessons learned and not just rehashing what we just got done discarding as irrelevant or not vital to the mission?
Does the end of the current conflicts HAVE to mean going back to the way things were? Can we not move forward instead of backwards?

By my observation, "Back to the basics" is a euphemism for "we aren't funding training right now". Pretty much the opposite of what they say.

The purpose of the Military is to protect the nation by force or threat of force. It's important that the methods of achieving that don't become paradigms. In 50 years or so the Manual of arms may be impossible to do because the Infantry soldier's weapon may be no bigger than an I-phone.

Return to when we were respected and didn't have to change standards because of hurt feelings.

The only traditions of the military is what are the values, what is the mission of the service. What needs to be done. Everything else that happens around that is part of the ever evolving world.