rssSmall Wars Journal Editor: Everybody Cool It With the Afghanistan Negativity
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 9:06 am
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The editor of Small Wars Journal, one of the most influential defense policy blogs around, is getting tired of the recent nervousness about Afghanistan.
How about a novel approach at this particular point in time – give the Commander in Chief, the National Command Authority, State… and most importantly, the Commanding General and his staff in Afghanistan some efing breathing room to sort this out? The guys on the ground – get it?
Dilegge goes on to wonder whether the proliferation of defense- and region-focused blogs and other media have “really examined the tipping point – the place where we become part of the problem, rather than the solution.” A worthy question. But how would that be determined? And how does a defense-focused blog not focus on a major war, or write about it critically?
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Comment posted August 12, 2009 @ 3:19 pm
Yeah, well, HERE'S a novel approach. Remember back in the darkest recesses of history, back before the unitary commander guy and his Darth VP, when in America the civilian authorities set the policy and the uniformed services carried it out to the best of their ability? Yeah, I know, archaic and antiquated, huh.
Right now, we're still waiting for some kind of actual coherent executable policy to come out of 1600. Without that, the armed services, state and the other agencies will just try to interpret the fuzzy smoke signals and run around trying shit, often at cross purposes. And hey, what could go wrong with THAT strategy?
mikey
Yeah, well, HERE'S a novel approach. Remember back in the darkest recesses of history, back before the unitary commander guy and his Darth VP, when in America the civilian authorities set the policy and the uniformed services carried it out to the best of their ability? Yeah, I know, archaic and antiquated, huh.
Right now, we're still waiting for some kind of actual coherent executable policy to come out of 1600. Without that, the armed services, state and the other agencies will just try to interpret the fuzzy smoke signals and run around trying shit, often at cross purposes. And hey, what could go wrong with THAT strategy?
mikey
Yeah, well, HERE'S a novel approach. Remember back in the darkest recesses of history, back before the unitary commander guy and his Darth VP, when in America the civilian authorities set the policy and the uniformed services carried it out to the best of their ability? Yeah, I know, archaic and antiquated, huh.
Right now, we're still waiting for some kind of actual coherent executable policy to come out of 1600. Without that, the armed services, state and the other agencies will just try to interpret the fuzzy smoke signals and run around trying shit, often at cross purposes. And hey, what could go wrong with THAT strategy?
mikey
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