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General Mattis and more on officership

Quite a lineup will be discussing the state of the military officer corps: Marine Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis, commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command; Rear Adm. Phil Wisecup, president of the Naval War College; the prolific writer Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, Jr., deputy JAG USAF; smart retired Army Lt. Gen. Dave Barno, director, Near ...

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Quite a lineup will be discussing the state of the military officer corps:

Quite a lineup will be discussing the state of the military officer corps:

Marine Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis, commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command; Rear Adm. Phil Wisecup, president of the Naval War College; the prolific writer Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, Jr., deputy JAG USAF; smart retired Army Lt. Gen. Dave Barno, director, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University; and Dr. John Nagl, president of CNAS.

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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. Twitter: @tomricks1
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