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If you thought the Dept. of State was bad in Afghanistan in 2009...
There are some pretty terrible horror stories in Rajiv Chandrasekaran's new book, but while reading the new John Lewis Gaddis biography of George F. Kennan, I learned that U.S. diplomats interned by the Germans for six months after the war broke out in 1941 were not paid for those six months because they "had not been working."
Harsh!
My review (of sorts) of the Chandrasekaran book can be read via my column in last week's World Politics Review.
There seems to be a great
There seems to be a great deal of controversy concerning the release of this book. On Amazon, there are currently a total of Nine reviews. There are Five 5 Star Reviews and Four 1 Star Reviews..... Why the polar opposites on review responses on Amazon?
This seems to tell me that there is something terribly wrong with that has been exposed... people are digging in on a defensive response to some kind of blow-back that may occur concerning the distribution of this book.
Looking forward to seeing it discussed more in the news, on TV and in your blog Dr. Exum.
Perhaps someone can get Rajiv Chandrasekaran on Charlie Rose Show?
"...is that in some ways, the
"...is that in some ways, the conduct of the Obama administration and the U.S. military in 2009 represents the ideal for strategic decision-making in terms of both process and the relationship between the military and its civilian masters."
Then we need a new cookbook. And we have for some time.
Process is highly overrated, and comes from the cult of the academic, and the cult of expertise.
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