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lefarkins.blogspot.com - 1/7/2009
Trouble at the Army War College
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Ezra highlights 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 ...
Strategic Collapse at the Army War College
pajamasmedia.com - 1/14/2009
Strategic Collapse at the Army War College
— pajamasmedia.com — A faculty member publicly defends Hamas while students are not allowed to read texts on militant Islam.... (more) Strategic Collapse at the Army War College

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Fiasco at the Army War College
ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 1/7/2009
Fiasco at the Army War College
— ricks.foreignpolicy.com — 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 ... (more) Fiasco at the Army War College

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ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 1/8/2009
Fiasco at the Army War College: The sequel
— 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 ... (more) Fiasco at the Army War College: The sequel

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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 Farley and Klein) things aren’t going so smoothly. An SSI clampdown would be very bad for the country. Effective government requires serious, professional, independent research. The US political system, to be frank, often ...

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Tom Ricks Blackballed at Army War College — Taylor Marsh
BY 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. Did faculty members at the Army War College curtail their criticism of the Iraq war for fear of institutional retaliation? [...] ...