{"id":525,"date":"2007-10-13T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T16:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/10\/13\/the-army-airs-some-laundry\/"},"modified":"2007-10-13T12:03:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T16:03:52","slug":"the-army-airs-some-laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/10\/13\/the-army-airs-some-laundry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Army Airs Some Laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"

This New York Times article<\/a> gives a much needed glimpse into the internal conversations going on at Ft. Leavenworth:<\/p>\n

“home to the Combined Arms Center, a sprawling Army research center that includes the Command and General Staff College for midcareer officers, the School of Advanced Military Studies for the most elite and the Center for Army Lessons Learned, which collects and disseminates battlefield data.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s far too short of an article (I’d loved to have seen a New Yorker-length treatment of the matter) and I don’t doubt for a minute that availability of the officers was carefully managed. But even with those limitations, it’s a good read. Take, for example:<\/p>\n

[H]e questioned whether Americans really wanted a four-star general to stand up publicly and say no to the president in a nation where civilians control the armed forces.<\/p>\n

For the sake of argument, a question from the reporter was posed: If enough four-star generals had done that, would it have stopped the war?<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yeah, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d call it a coup d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122etat,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Colonel Fontenot said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you want to have a coup d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122etat? You kind of have to decide what you want. Do you like the Constitution, or are you so upset about the Iraq war that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re willing to dismiss the Constitution in just this one instance and hopefully things will be O.K.? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think so.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This New York Times article gives a much needed glimpse into the internal conversations going on at Ft. Leavenworth: “home to the Combined Arms Center, a sprawling Army research center that includes the Command and General Staff College for midcareer officers, the School of Advanced Military Studies for the most elite and the Center for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t