Princeton scores a touchdown for vets
Some vets are Princeton have launched a program to teach other vets how to run for office. This is an explicitly non-partisan effort. It looks pretty good, judging only by its website. Veterans Campaign was initiated by a group of graduate students and influential professors at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International ...
Some vets are Princeton have launched a program to teach other vets how to run for office. This is an explicitly non-partisan effort. It looks pretty good, judging only by its website.
Veterans Campaign was initiated by a group of graduate students and influential professors at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Some of the members have military experience, while others have staffed and managed political campaigns. Members hold different ideological and partisan beliefs, but all share the conviction that having more veterans in public office will benefit the United States.
I agree that having vets in office is a good thing. I’d especially like to see some former enlisted run for office. I think the armed services committees of Congress used to benefit enormously from the skeptical questions of former sergeants who had spent time in the mud, and weren’t necessarily awed by generals.
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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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