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Best Defense rules for military leadership

No. 23: Don’t spank your subordinate officers.  It is just a bad idea. Meanwhile, “BN Runner,” a smart reader and commenter, asks how this woman (who was just suspended as commandant of the drill sergeants’ school at Fort Jackson, S.C., not clear why) could be a command sergeant major in today’s Army and never have ...

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No. 23: Don't spank your subordinate officers.  It is just a bad idea.

No. 23: Don’t spank your subordinate officers.  It is just a bad idea.

Meanwhile, “BN Runner,” a smart reader and commenter, asks how this woman (who was just suspended as commandant of the drill sergeants’ school at Fort Jackson, S.C., not clear why) could be a command sergeant major in today’s Army and never have deployed?

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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