My friend, I was hoping that you'd weigh in on this. Apologies for the late reply. Days now require more than 24 hours around here.
As we've discussed many times and are in full agreement of, the part of the natsec community that deals in influence continues to have their head, "where the sun doesn't shine." To make matters worse, they mouth the words about heart and minds but continue to throw, now billions behind defense contractors full of BS, faking expertise and doing more sales than contributing anything of value to the NSS.
For all the required study of Clausewitz and Sun Tzu, they never act on what they taught. Here are my comments to a new Atlantic article about the Afghan withdrawal that all sides seem to want to immorally, "play politics with." The original post is from Brian Steed, a friend and Narrative Strategies colleague who now teaches in retirement at CGSC/ Command and General Staff College.
My friend, I was hoping that you'd weigh in on this. Apologies for the late reply. Days now require more than 24 hours around here.
As we've discussed many times and are in full agreement of, the part of the natsec community that deals in influence continues to have their head, "where the sun doesn't shine." To make matters worse, they mouth the words about heart and minds but continue to throw, now billions behind defense contractors full of BS, faking expertise and doing more sales than contributing anything of value to the NSS.
For all the required study of Clausewitz and Sun Tzu, they never act on what they taught. Here are my comments to a new Atlantic article about the Afghan withdrawal that all sides seem to want to immorally, "play politics with." The original post is from Brian Steed, a friend and Narrative Strategies colleague who now teaches in retirement at CGSC/ Command and General Staff College.
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