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General Flynn’s critique: the comments

There were a lot of good comments posted in the last 24 hours in response to my post yesterday on the report by Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn and his posse on how military intelligence in Afghanistan has gots to change. If you haven’t pored through them, you should. But first you should read the report.

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There were a lot of good comments posted in the last 24 hours in response to my post yesterday on the report by Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn and his posse on how military intelligence in Afghanistan has gots to change. If you haven’t pored through them, you should. But first you should read the report.

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. @tomricks1
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