“Tarnished brass”
That’s the title of a good article about military professionalism in the new issue of World Affairs by Richard Kohn, the great University of North Carolina military historian (and a friend of mine). I was especially struck by this pungent line: Iraq has become the metaphor for an absence of strategy.” Plus an depressing fact ...
That’s the title of a good article about military professionalism in the new issue of World Affairs by Richard Kohn, the great University of North Carolina military historian (and a friend of mine).
I was especially struck by this pungent line:
Iraq has become the metaphor for an absence of strategy.”
Plus an depressing fact I’d never known:
William Westmoreland was the first active duty Army officer to graduate from the Harvard Business School.”
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