ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 1/7/2009
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I blurbed his book, he blackballed me
Did faculty members at the Army War College curtail their criticism of the Iraq
war for fear of institutional retaliation?
That seems to
be the bottom line in a situation I stumbled across just a few days ago. A
friend passed along a 2005 e-mail ...
pajamasmedia.com - 1/14/2009
ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 1/8/2009
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ricks.foreignpolicy.com —
I've heard from another defense expert worried about
academic freedom at the Army War College. Mark Perry...
, author of several books on defense issues, wrote to say that a series of experiences two years ago at the college so concerned him that he ...
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Fiasco at the Army War College: The sequel
news.yahoo.com - 1/7/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
WASHINGTON The Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family
members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan...
wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as "John Doe." Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., was sending a personal letter to all ...
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Army apologizes for hurtful message to survivors - ...
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Trouble at the Army War College
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... Tom Ricks' post on trouble at the Army War College. The Army War College, like its Navy counterpart, employs primarily civilian academics to produce research and to furnish senior officers with a strategic perspective. The Naval War College, for example, was an important cog in the project to produce the ...
Tom Ricks Blackballed at Army War College
Taylor Marsh —
... Ricks tells a disturbing tale that reveals a lot about the cost of criticizing the Iraq war, just as Bush trumpets it as his great success. ...
Trouble at the War College
Matthew Yglesias —
... I’ve been impressed that throughout the disastrous Bush years, the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute has continued to host work by scholars who’ve been critical of the Bush administration — in some instances (Jeffrey Record) scathingly so. But according to Tom Ricks (via ...
Army War College toned down its Iraq war criticism under pressure from Rumsfeld.
Think Progress —
... and war in Iraq “unnecessary.” Today, former Washington Post reporter Thomas Ricks writes that Steven Metz, chairman of a department at the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, said that the school eventually had to censor itself because of pressure from the Pentagon: ...
We “Won” the War in Iraq?
Unqualified Offerings —
... : We won the war and lefty [sic] journalists like [Thomas] Ricks just can’t stand that fact. (The less-than-gifted Macsmind is upset by Rick’s Foreign Policy blog post, where Ricks details the pressure exerted on skeptics at the Army War College to shut up in the lead-up to invading Iraq.) . If we have won, why aren’t the troops all being decreased and brought home in significant numbers every 1-2 months? And what do the pro-war cheerleaders define as “winning?”
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