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Was The Caine Mutiny really fiction?

Apparently Capt. Holly Graf thought that after months of abusing subordinates as fucking stupid idiots and such that their objections to her could be dismissed as simply the “groupthink” of a handful of disgruntled officers in the wardroom.

By Thomas E. Ricks

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March 4, 2010, 7:48 AM

Apparently Capt. Holly Graf thought that after months of abusing subordinates as fucking stupid idiots and such that their objections to her could be dismissed as simply the "groupthink" of a handful of disgruntled officers in the wardroom.

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Apparently Capt. Holly Graf thought that after months of abusing subordinates as fucking stupid idiots and such that their objections to her could be dismissed as simply the “groupthink” of a handful of disgruntled officers in the wardroom.

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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