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Originally Posted by Raellus
In Desert Storm, we stuck to the Powell Doctrine. In Iraq and Afghanistan, we largely ignored it.
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The civilian leadership bears the responsibility for most of of the ignoring, and this fact highlights one of the great weaknesses of our system of government. Continuity can be nearly non-existent. When we vote for a leader based on his charisma and positions on tax cuts, we get no guarantees about his willingness to hear unpleasant things from his officials--including his generals. This applies to the Left and the Right. Generals are stuck working with whatever the elected leadership gives them.
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“We’re not innovating. We’re selectively imitating.” June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.
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