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    <title>What is a better way to say ‘Thank you for your service’? (Task &amp; Purpose)</title>
    <dc:date>2023-11-11T02:35:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
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    <title>USAWC Civil-Military Relations Center</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-24T21:33:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
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    <title>Outgoing Syria Envoy Admits Hiding US Troop Numbers; Praises Trump’s Mideast Record (Katie Bo Williams | Defense One)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-13T15:04:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" “We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey said in an interview. The actual number of troops in northeast Syria is “a lot more than” the roughly two hundred troops Trump initially agreed to leave there in 2019. "]]></description>
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    <title>Breaking Ranks in a Civil-Military Crisis: Strategic Communication to Register Dissent (Daniel Maurer | Just Security)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-08-28T15:33:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.justsecurity.org/72164/breaking-ranks-in-a-civil-military-crisis-strategic-communication-to-register-dissent/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The problem is defining what a “constitutional civil-military crisis” really means – both literally (what part of the Constitution is under duress or strained?) and practically (what should the parties to the civil-military relationship do, if anything, with that information?). Martin L. Cook, a professor of military ethics at the Naval War College, makes it plainer: “The foundation of the American professional military ethic lies in the oath to the Constitution [but] few officers have even read it, let alone possess a deep historical grasp of the meaning and central values it represents.” As a result, he says, “Officers of vast experience and the best of good will disagree fundamentally in their understanding of the scope and limits of the requirements of military professionalism in relation to civilian leadership.” "]]></description>
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    <title>Esper concerned over federal agents dressed like military troops in U.S. cities (Lara Seligman | Politico)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-07-22T16:56:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/21/esper-federal-agents-military-protests-376381</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" After nationwide protests over racial injustice and police violence erupted in June, Esper expressed concern that in some cases, federal law enforcement officers were being confused with troops because of their similar uniforms, said Jonathan Hoffman, chief Pentagon spokesperson. Esper urged efforts to more clearly distinguish between the two, Hoffman said.

" "We saw this take place back in June when there were some law enforcement that wear uniforms that make them appear military in appearance," Hoffman said. Esper has told administration officials that "we want a system where people can tell the difference." "]]></description>
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    <title>Why soldiers might disobey the president's orders to occupy US cities (Marcus Hedahl, Bradley Jay Strawser | The Conversation)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-14T18:04:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" We see the founders’ fears realized when President Trump refers to the military as “my generals.” We see it again when a largely peaceful demonstration was violently ended by authorities to create a moment of political theater, rather than out of public safety concerns.

" By refusing to follow orders to deploy to U.S. cities, members of the armed forces could actually be respecting, rather than undermining, the very reasons that ultimately ground the principle of civilian control in the first place. After all, the framers always intended it to be the people’s military rather than the president’s. "]]></description>
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    <title>Top General Apologizes for Being at Trump Church Photo Shoot (Gordon Lubold, Nancy A. Youssef | Wall Street Journal)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-11T15:36:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-general-apologizes-for-being-at-trump-church-photo-shoot-11591885273</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" ‘My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics’ "]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://newrepublic.com/article/158136/military-veterans-police-sheepdog-problem">
    <title>The Police’s “Sheepdog” Problem (Jasper Craven | The New Republic)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-11T14:03:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newrepublic.com/article/158136/military-veterans-police-sheepdog-problem</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" And while former service members have long been hailed as prototypical cops, the available data disagrees. The Marshall Project found that veteran cops in Miami and Boston were more likely than nonserving officers to have faced use-of-force complaints. The news nonprofit also calculated that one-third of fatal police shootings in Albuquerque, New Mexico, between 2010 and 2014 involved military veterans. A 2018 study of the Dallas police department found that veteran cops were more likely to fire their guns, regardless of their deployment history. 

" In addition to a slew of recent high-profile killings of black Americans by cops with prior military service, the Marshall Project report concludes, “Veterans who work as police are more vulnerable to self-destructive behavior,” with little mental health screening or assistance; veterans preference in law enforcement recruiting also translates to adding more white cops out of proportion to most of the populations that they police. “Policing is not combat, it’s not a war,” said Joe Smarro, a Marine veteran of Iraq and San Antonio police officer who is now working to train fellow cops in de-escalation, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention. “It’s an entirely different world, an entirely different mindset. Yet the preparation is parallel to the military.” "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations military-service police-state</dc:subject>
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    <title>Aggressive Tactics by National Guard, Ordered to Appease Trump, Wounded the Military, Too (Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper | New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-11T00:16:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/national-guard-protests.html?referringSource=articleShare</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" * Senior Army leaders — in an effort to prevent what they feared would be a calamitous outcome if President Trump ordered combat troops from the 82nd Airborne Division holding just outside city limits to the streets — leaned heavily on the Guard to carry out aggressive tactics to prove it could do the job without active-duty forces.

" * Guard leaders issued a flurry of ad hoc orders that put thousands of Guard troops in face-to-face conflict with fellow Americans.

" * Some of the Guard troops were just out of basic training, and others had no experience in controlling disturbances in the streets. Troops were allowed to drive heavy vehicles on the streets without the usual licensing. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations military-service police-state</dc:subject>
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    <title>‘What I saw was just absolutely wrong’: National Guardsmen struggle with their role in controlling protests (Daniel Lippman | Politico)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-10T14:38:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/national-guard-protests-309932</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Politico spoke to 10 National Guardsmen who have taken part in the protest response across the country since the killing of George Floyd while in police custody. Many Guardsmen said they felt uncomfortable with the way they were used to handle the unrest because demonstrators lumped them in with the police. They felt that while they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, their presence at times intimidated Americans from expressing their opinions and even escalated the tension. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations police-state</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/politics/protests-trump-helicopters-national-guard.html?smid=tw-share">
    <title>Pentagon Ordered National Guard Helicopters’ Aggressive Response in D.C. (Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eric Schmitt | New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-06T17:51:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/politics/protests-trump-helicopters-national-guard.html?smid=tw-share</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Senior Pentagon officials, including Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were trying to persuade President Trump that active-duty troops should not be sent into the streets to impose order, and that law enforcement and National Guard personnel could contain the level of unrest. "

" On Monday night, both Mr. McCarthy and the Army’s chief of staff, Gen. James C. McConville, pressed Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, to increase his forces’ presence in the city, according to a senior Defense Department official. "]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/03/trump-military-george-floyd-protests/">
    <title>Trump's Military Threats Against Protesters Could Be the Beginning of the End of American Democracy (John Allen | Foreign Policy)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-04T17:23:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/03/trump-military-george-floyd-protests/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" There had evidently been a debate within the president’s inner circle about the efficacy of attempting a national statement to create a sense of unity in this moment of crisis. Clearly, the argument in favor of such a statement did not carry the day. The president has failed to show sympathy, empathy, compassion, or understanding—some of the traits the nation now needs from its highest office. Perhaps sensing this moment as an opportunity for an easy victory after his appalling leadership failure in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, the president came down hard: hard on the governors and mayors he’d labeled as weak, the same ones he’d left to fend for themselves during the pandemic, and hard on the Americans in the streets against whom he is preparing to dispatch “thousands upon thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement.” At the end of his speech, offhandedly saying something about going to pay homage to a national shrine, the president departed back into the White House. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations police-state</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:aff524a0f254/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00374">
    <title>Paradoxes of Professionalism: Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in the United States (Risa Brooks | International Security)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-04T07:33:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00374</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The U.S. military's prevailing norms of professionalism exhibit three paradoxes that render the organization poorly suited to meet contemporary challenges to its nonpartisan ethic, and that undermine its relations with civilian leaders. These norms, based on Samuel Huntington's objective civilian control model, argue that the military should operate in a sphere separate from the civilian domain of policymaking and decisions about the use of force. The first paradox is that Huntingtonian norms, though intended to prevent partisan and political behavior by military personnel, can also enable these activities. Second, the norms promote civilian leaders’ authority in decisionmaking related to the use of force, yet undermine their practical control and oversight of military activity. Third, they contribute to the military's operational and tactical effectiveness, while corroding the United States’ strategic effectiveness in armed conflict. These tensions in Huntington's norms matter today because of intensifying partisanship in society and in the military, the embrace by civilian leaders of objective control and their concomitant delegation of authority in armed conflict to the military, and growing questions about the causes of the inconclusive outcomes of the United States’ recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is time to develop a new framework for military professionalism. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:7a3e7829179d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://saideman.blogspot.com/2020/06/one-of-worst-days-in-american-civil.html?m=1">
    <title>One of the Worst Days In American Civil-Military Relations (Stephen Saideman)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-04T07:31:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://saideman.blogspot.com/2020/06/one-of-worst-days-in-american-civil.html?m=1</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" SecDef Mark Esper referred to Minneapolis as a "battlespace" which only  makes sense if ... American citizens are the adversary. "

" One of the key players on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Tom "Harvard maybe overrated" Cotton called on the US regular troops to entry the fray holding back nothing and giving no quarter--which means killing those who surrender.  "

" Making it appear that way, General Mark Milley walked around the protest/police riot* area, wearing his BDU's--the uniform officers wear when engaged in operations, not the usual spiffy uniform worn when advising the President.  So, even if Milley was not in command, he appeared to be so.  "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations police-state</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:2748b5c58a61/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.globaldispatchespodcast.com/trump-has-assembled-a-team-of-generals-so-whats-the-problem/">
    <title>Trump has Assembled a “Team of Generals.” So What’s the Problem? (Mark Goldberg | Global Dispatches)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-04T07:27:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.globaldispatchespodcast.com/trump-has-assembled-a-team-of-generals-so-whats-the-problem/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Top military brass have served in civilian roles But never before have so many generals been tapped to serve at once and in top positions in the government. And this is out of the ordinary precisely because the American political system has historically shunned it for reasons that my guest Alice Hunt Friend describes. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:ae2a4c992c27/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://duckofminerva.com/2020/06/dear-civ-mil-community-the-retired-generals-are-speaking-we-should-listen.html">
    <title>Dear Civ-Mil Community: The (Retired) Generals Are Speaking &amp; We Should Listen (Carrie A. Lee | Duck of Minerva)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-04T07:21:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://duckofminerva.com/2020/06/dear-civ-mil-community-the-retired-generals-are-speaking-we-should-listen.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" But what the civil-military community gets wrong is that by saying any and all involvement is bad for military non-partisanship is also to say that there is no situation in which retired military officers, with three and four decades of service to and leadership of this country, should be allowed to fight for their profession. Instead, we should be thinking about the situations in which retired officers who speak out may actually preserve rather than degrade the norms of non-partisanship. This, I would argue, is exactly one of those times. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:b2d52dd139bf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://warontherocks.com/2019/07/its-time-to-crowd-source-questions-about-civil-military-relationships/">
    <title>It’s Time to Crowd-Source Questions About Civil-Military Relationships (Dan Maurer | War on the Rocks)</title>
    <dc:date>2019-07-31T15:20:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://warontherocks.com/2019/07/its-time-to-crowd-source-questions-about-civil-military-relationships/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" To those ends, I’ve asked some leading civilian-military relations thinkers to provide their own Edge-like “unanswered questions” — those that animate their studies, drive their research, and continue to draw their attention. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:219ec3095ca7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/15/generals-vs-policy-wonks/">
    <title>How the Generals Are Routing the Policy Wonks at the Pentagon (Lara Seligman | Foreign Policy)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-17T03:56:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/15/generals-vs-policy-wonks/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Civilian oversight of the military “was already weakening in the last administration, and I think it basically fell off a cliff,” said one former Defense Department official who requested anonymity. “It sucks to work in an office where nobody listens to you.” "

...

" The end result, experts worry, is that civilian control of the military is being undercut. This fundamental concept, required by law in the United States, dates to the country’s earliest days, when the Founding Fathers wrote it into the Constitution. At the core of civilian control of the military is a strong civil service, which acts as the “brain trust and historic memory of national security policy” through changes in administrations, said Mara Karlin, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who served in the Pentagon from 2004 to 2009 and then again from 2012 to the end of the Obama administration.

" “At the end of the day, as we all know thorny national security issues don’t just involve the military; political-military considerations invariably bleed into them,” she said. “If the senior military’s leadership views are going to be just constrained to military advice … who is thinking about issues from that broader perspective?” "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:61711c8de59f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/for-trump-and-his-generals-victory-has-different-meanings/2018/04/05/8d74eab0-381d-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html">
    <title>For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings (Greg Jaffe | Washington Post)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-06T14:45:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/for-trump-and-his-generals-victory-has-different-meanings/2018/04/05/8d74eab0-381d-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Trump’s words, both in public and private, describe a view that wars should be brutal and swift, waged with overwhelming firepower and, in some cases, with little regard for civilian casualties. Victory over America’s enemies for the president is often a matter of bombing “the s--- out of them,” as he said on the campaign trail. "

...

" For America’s generals, more than 17 years of combat have served as a lesson in the limits of overwhelming force to end wars fueled by sectarian feuds, unreliable allies and persistent government corruption. “Victory is sort [of] an elusive concept in that part of the world,” said Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland, who led troops over five tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. “Anyone who goes in and tries to achieve a decisive victory is going to come away disappointed.” "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:6ce967634f3d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/war-making-age-imperial-presidency-war-without-war-powers-not-new-american-way.html">
    <title>War Making in the Age of the Imperial Presidency: War Without War Powers (the Not-So-New American Way) (Danny Sjursen @ Naked Capitalism)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-06T17:39:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/war-making-age-imperial-presidency-war-without-war-powers-not-new-american-way.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" It’s a remarkably old story actually.  Ever since V-J Day in August 1945, Congress has repeatedly ducked its explicit constitutional duties when it comes to war, handing over the keys to the eternal use of the U.S. military to an increasingly imperial presidency.  An often deadlocked, ever less popular Congress has cowered in the shadows for decades as Americans died in undeclared wars.  Judging by the lack of public outrage, perhaps this is how the citizenry, too, prefers it.  "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:3ec483e77aee/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/john-kelly-and-the-language-of-the-military-coup?mbid=social_twitter">
    <title>John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup (Masha Gessen @ The New Yorker)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-20T21:47:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/john-kelly-and-the-language-of-the-military-coup?mbid=social_twitter</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don’t have to strain your imagination—all you have to do is watch Thursday’s White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump’s phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson. The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations police-state</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:023bb3865750/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/09/climate-change-enabling-us-military-play-greatly-enlarged-domestic-role.html">
    <title>Climate Change Enabling US Military to Play Greatly Enlarged Domestic Role (Naked Capitalism)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-18T15:53:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/09/climate-change-enabling-us-military-play-greatly-enlarged-domestic-role.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" This seems awfully understated. The endgame, if climate change is not addressed, is a US with the military effectively in charge as it becomes more difficult to deal with increasing numbers of people who become permanently displaced as a result of climate change. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>global-warming military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:e1d279b12b46/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/world/asia/trump-afghanistan.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;referer=">
    <title>Angry Trump Grilled His Generals About Troop Increase, Then Gave In (Mark Landler, Maggie Haberman, New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-22T01:55:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/world/asia/trump-afghanistan.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;referer=</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The generals kept pushing for more troops, but Mr. Trump insisted on knowing why the other two options were deemed not feasible. On Aug. 10, the president summoned his team to his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., where he was on a less-than-tranquil vacation.

" The generals told the president that a complete pullout would leave Afghanistan in danger of becoming another haven for the Islamic State, as happened in Iraq. And Mr. Pompeo’s reservations about a major role for the C.I.A. undercut the counterterrorism strategy. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:696c78ff5d25/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.govexec.com/defense/2017/07/analysis-dangerous-politicization-military/139679/">
    <title>Analysis: The Dangerous Politicization of the Military (Andrew Exum @ The Atlantic)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-24T21:12:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.govexec.com/defense/2017/07/analysis-dangerous-politicization-military/139679/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" All of this Americans have grown to consider normal, and all of it reinforces the idea that the U.S. military is a special, privileged class of men and women within our society.

" Here’s the danger in that, and in the president’s words this past weekend: If you keep treating the U.S. military like a privileged class—a class of men and women above the citizens it swore to defend—it will start acting like it. America has already taken on some characteristics of a banana republic of late, with long-standing ethical rules ignored (with the tacit blessing of the Congress) and the president’s relatives given positions of power within the government. So a next logical step would be a military like that of Egypt, or Turkey, or Pakistan, where the military officer corps is a political-economic actor that operates not only out of service to the citizenry but also to protect its own craven political and economic interests. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:877de6e0f5f9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-military-20170602-story.html">
    <title>Trump doesn't micromanage the military - but that could backfire (W.J. Hennigan, Brian Bennett | Los Angeles Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-12T18:00:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-military-20170602-story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" In nearly five months in office, President Trump has yet to meet or speak with either his Iraq or Afghanistan commander, even as his administration weighs deeper and longer-term involvement in both conflicts and asks Congress for a vast increase in defense spending.

" Trump’s hands-off approach to America’s longest wars demonstrates how much control his administration has entrusted to Defense Secretary James N. Mattis, a retired four-star Marine general, and commanders on the ground. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:73fe9f3f08ba/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/us/politics/trump-macdill-air-base.html">
    <title>Trump’s Mix of Politics and Military Is Faulted (Michael R. Gordon | New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-08T03:25:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/us/politics/trump-macdill-air-base.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" “When President Trump suggested that it was good to support him and said he was so thankful for the support of the military, it showed that he doesn’t understand what the military in a freely elected democracy is supposed to be doing,” said Mark Hertling, a retired Army lieutenant general.

" “The military takes an oath to defend the Constitution, not certain politicians,” he added. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://apple.com/iphone/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:666822a3392a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/military-times-survey-july-donald-trump-hillary-clinton">
    <title>By and large, the military thinks Trump and Clinton are total losers ( George R. Altman, Leo Shane III | Military Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-06T13:28:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/military-times-survey-july-donald-trump-hillary-clinton</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" More than 61 percent indicated they are "dissatisfied" or "very dissatisfied" with Trump as the Republican nominee, including 28 percent of those who intend to vote for him. More than 82 percent said the same about Clinton, the Democratic nominee, with 30 percent of those pledging to vote for her voicing displeasure with the choice. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:82a98884190b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/03/civilian-control-of-the-military-is-over-welcome-to-civilian-subjugation.html">
    <title>Civilian Control of the Military is Over, Welcome to Civilian Subjugation (Gregory D. Foster | Naked Capitalism)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-16T04:33:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/03/civilian-control-of-the-military-is-over-welcome-to-civilian-subjugation.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" And no, the military doesn’t win wars anymore. It hasn’t won one of note in 70 years. The dirty wars in the shadows it now regularly fights are intrinsically unwinnable, especially given our preferred American Way of War: killing people and breaking things as lethally, destructively, and overwhelmingly as possible. It’s an approach — a state of mind — still largely geared to a different type of conflict from an era now long since past and to those classic generals who are always preparing for the last war. That’s why today’s principal adversaries have been so uniformly effective in employing asymmetric methods as a form of strategic jujitsu to turn our presumed strengths into crippling weaknesses.

" Instead of a strategically effective military, what we have is quite the opposite: heavy, disproportionately destructive, indiscriminately lethal, single-mindedly combat-oriented, technology-dominant, exorbitantly expensive, unsustainably consumptive, and increasingly alienated from the rest of society. Just as important, wherever it goes, it provokes and antagonizes where it should reassure and thereby invariably fathers the mirror image of itself in others.

" Not surprisingly, the military today doesn’t secure and preserve peace, a concept no longer evident in Washington’s store of know-how. Those in uniform and in positions of civilian authority who employ the military subscribe almost universally and uncritically to the inherently illogical maxim that if you want peace, you had best prepare for war. The result is that the force being prepared (even engorged) feeds and nurtures pervasive militarism — the primacy of, preference for, and deference to military solutions in the conduct of statecraft. Where it should provide security, it instead produces only self-defeating insecurity. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:87e4afc4dd49/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.jfsc.ndu.edu/library/publications/bibliography/civilian_control-military.asp">
    <title>Civilian control of the military publications (Joint Forces Staff College)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-14T19:34:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jfsc.ndu.edu/library/publications/bibliography/civilian_control-military.asp</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/thinktanked/post/petraeus-fallout-shows-diminishing-separation-between-think-tanks-and-government/2012/12/03/c2cc5958-3d70-11e2-8a5c-473797be602c_blog.html?wprss=rss_thinktanked">
    <title>Petraeus fallout shows diminishing separation between think tanks and government (Allen McDuffee | Washington Post)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-03T20:44:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/thinktanked/post/petraeus-fallout-shows-diminishing-separation-between-think-tanks-and-government/2012/12/03/c2cc5958-3d70-11e2-8a5c-473797be602c_blog.html?wprss=rss_thinktanked</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Following up on a report from The Washington Post that said several prominent think tankers held permanent office space at Gen. David Petraeus’s headquarters in Kabul and provided advice to field commanders that sometimes conflicted with orders from the commanders’ immediate bosses, Justin Elliott of ProPublica shows how several think tank scholars have engaged in this program — perhaps none more than Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute and his wife Kimberley Kagan of the Institute for the Study of War, who spent a total of about 270 days in Afghanistan under Petraeus and about 128 days under Gen. John Allen. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>think-tanks military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:d737af7b3330/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/full-spectrum-operations-in-the-homeland-a-%E2%80%9Cvision%E2%80%9D-of-the-future">
    <title>Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future (Kevin Benson, Jennifer Weber, Small Wars Journal)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-09T01:49:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/full-spectrum-operations-in-the-homeland-a-%E2%80%9Cvision%E2%80%9D-of-the-future</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In case you think the military will be caught with its pants down when you start your “insurrection”: ]]></description>
<dc:subject>insurrectionism military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:814719a04df2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=781732&amp;single=1&amp;f=21">
    <title>Obama's Pentagon and C.I.A. Picks Show Shift in How U.S. Fights (Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt, New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-28T18:11:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=781732&amp;single=1&amp;f=21</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The result is that American military and intelligence operatives are at times virtually indistinguishable from each other as they carry out classified operations in the Middle East and Central Asia. Some members of Congress have complained that this new way of war allows for scant debate about the scope and scale of military operations. In fact, the American spy and military agencies operate in such secrecy now that it is often hard to come by specific information about the American role in major missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Libya and Yemen. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:6164cdf615d9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/26114/">
    <title>A war monger review, looking at the articles advocating a US war with Libya (Fabius Maximus)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-22T08:16:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/26114/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>military-civil-relations think-tanks</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:da8c5bf5941b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.congress.org/news/2011/03/07/when_military_talks_many_listen">
    <title>When military talks, many listen (Emily Cadei, Congress.org)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-08T16:28:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.congress.org/news/2011/03/07/when_military_talks_many_listen</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The most recent effort was organized by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, a group of business, nonprofit and foreign policy leaders. The group sent a half-dozen retired admirals and generals to Capitol Hill last week to visit the offices of House and Senate members who serve on the Appropriations and foreign policy committees. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:f298cf6f3b31/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/05/this_week_at_war_the_powell_doctrine_is_dead">
    <title>The Long Death of the Powell Doctrine (Robert Haddick @ Foreign Policy)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-04T00:52:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/05/this_week_at_war_the_powell_doctrine_is_dead</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The Mullen Doctrine accepts that every day for the foreseeable future, U.S. military forces will shoot at, or will be shot at, by somebody somewhere in the world. Given this seemingly permanent state of war, Mullen says that politicians, soldiers, and the public will need to engage in an open-ended discussion that will constantly adjust how the country employs its military forces. Mullen assumes that the public now accepts that low-level warfare is an enduring fact of life. If he is wrong about this, the Powell Doctrine could rise from the grave. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:bc0b9f470d52/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.jcs.mil/speech.aspx?ID=1336">
    <title>Admiral Mullen lecture at KSU, 2010 March 3</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-04T00:49:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jcs.mil/speech.aspx?ID=1336</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[vague statement moving away from strict Powell Doctrine]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:1cd338eac420/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/us/04mullen.html">
    <title>Joint Chiefs Chairman Readjusts Principles on Use of Force (Thom Shanker, New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-04T00:46:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/us/04mullen.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" In a careful recalibration of well-known principles set forth years ago by a predecessor, Gen. Colin L. Powell, Admiral Mullen said the military “must not try to use force only in an overwhelming capacity, but in the proper capacity, and in a precise and principled manner.” "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:2bea9c422a90/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014380984_libyanofly03.html">
    <title>White House pressed to intervene in Libya (Jonathan S. Landay, Seattle Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-04T00:36:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014380984_libyanofly03.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" McCain, a Vietnam War-era Navy pilot, dismissed suggestions by U.S. commanders that enforcing such a zone would be costly and complicated.

" "I love the military," he told the Atlantic Council, a policy institute, on Tuesday. "But they always seem to find reasons why you can't do something rather than why you can." "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:9bcc3890d47b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iOW6Zcu1z41QgPDaItXos-WNc5jw?docId=CNG.c0c06f1b1c9dca765600f1cf404394f0.231">
    <title>Pentagon cautious but not against Libya no-fly zone (AFP)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-04T00:32:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iOW6Zcu1z41QgPDaItXos-WNc5jw?docId=CNG.c0c06f1b1c9dca765600f1cf404394f0.231</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Gates and top US military officer Admiral Mike Mullen showed little enthusiasm for a possible no-fly zone in Libya or other armed intervention in public remarks over the past two days, saying it would be dangerous, complex and politically risky. "

" On Tuesday, Mullen said shutting down Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's air force would be "extraordinarily complex" while Gates asked whether it made sense for the United States to launch military action "in another country in the Middle East." "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:0efd8877d290/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/03/201133232122196533.html">
    <title>Obama says Gaddafi must leave (Al Jazeera)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-04T00:28:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/03/201133232122196533.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The Pentagon is making it clear it does not want war, even as senators passed a resolution urging the UN to act on setting up a no-fly zone.

" A statement on Wednesday by Defence Secretary Robert Gates illustrated the administration's effort to rein in "loose talk" about military options to force Gaddafi from power. It was an acknowledgement that, short of an unlikely military offensive by a US-led coalition, the options for international action to stem the violence are highly limited.

" "Let's just call a spade a spade: A no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the air defenses," Gates told a congressional panel. The Pentagon could get the job done if ordered by the president, he said, but he noted that an attack would require more air power than a single US aircraft carrier, which typically carries about 75 planes. "It is a big operation in a big country," Gates said. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:9abd80999fc0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49838.html">
    <title>Defense leaders fear fear military-civilian 'disconnect' (Philip Ewing, Politico)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-21T19:47:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49838.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Top Defense Department officials and other leaders began talking quietly last year about a “gap” or “split” between the military and the general population. But in recent weeks, they’ve been expressing those concerns more often and more boldly. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:c0056d5179ee/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122904017.html">
    <title>Why ROTC shouldn't be on campus (Colman McCarthy @ Washington Post)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-26T02:26:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122904017.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:3eb2e7cba30f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101223/ap_on_re_us/us_gays_in_the_military_rotc">
    <title>Colleges reconsider ROTC after 'don't ask' repeal (AP)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-26T02:26:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101223/ap_on_re_us/us_gays_in_the_military_rotc</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" "They don't really need these schools," said Michael Desch, a political science professor at Notre Dame and an ROTC expert. "It would be symbolic in terms of having the Ivies and other elite schools sort of come back in the fold." "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:7cf1b6d1ae69/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/alvin-felzenberg/2010/12/30/obama-should-return-rotc-to-elite-universities.html">
    <title>Obama Should Return ROTC to Elite Universities (Alvin Felzenberg @ US News &amp; World Report)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-26T02:24:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/alvin-felzenberg/2010/12/30/obama-should-return-rotc-to-elite-universities.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:966da775c2d9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AtlanticPoliticsChannel/~3/wLUiz88eX-c/click.phdo">
    <title>On the Military Revolving Door (James Fallows, The Atlantic)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-31T19:00:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AtlanticPoliticsChannel/~3/wLUiz88eX-c/click.phdo</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[commenter: "I don't really considering it retiring when you leave on a Friday and are sitting at the same desk on Monday with a slightly different colored badge, and I refuse to pretend that this is anything but a farce. If anything, you can tell who the real slugs are because they are the ones that don't come back as contractors. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:ef6f14d9a06f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://mobile.boston.com/art/25//news/nation/washington/articles/2010/12/26/defense_firms_lure_retired_generals/?single=1&amp;p=2">
    <title>From the Pentagon to the Private Sector (Bryan Bender, Boston Globe)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-31T18:59:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mobile.boston.com/art/25//news/nation/washington/articles/2010/12/26/defense_firms_lure_retired_generals/?single=1&amp;p=2</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" From 2004 through 2008, 80 percent of retiring three- and four-star officers went to work as consultants or defense executives, according to the Globe analysis. That compares with less than 50 percent who followed that path a decade earlier, from 1994 to 1998. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:bce3e5264173/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/22203/">
    <title>Our growing domestic insurgency: Revolt of the generals (Fabius Maximus)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-18T10:50:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/22203/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Slowly over the past five years evidence has accumulated that our military leaders have grown so powerful that they can — and increasing do — challenge the nation’s civilian leaders for control of foreign policy (rather than jointly set it, as they have since WWII). "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:4085f53e40c7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1590">
    <title>Military Professionalism and Dissent (Bernard Finel)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-18T10:49:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1590</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The first is, perhaps, a bad policy decision. The second is a bad moral and legal decision. Military professionals do absolutely have a duty to dissent against the latter, but while they may raise objections through the chain of command, they have a duty to obey the former. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:15180057932b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2010/09/breaking-ranks/">
    <title>Breaking Ranks? (Paul Yingling @ Small Wars Journal)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-18T10:47:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2010/09/breaking-ranks/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Milburn’s second proposition elevates the military to a fourth branch of government with veto power over the actions of the other three. ... Unlike the other branches of government, there are no means to override the veto of Milburn’s morally autonomous officers. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:3afc399a51d2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/09/29/richard_kohn_fires_a_warning_flare_about_a_joint_force_quarterly_article">
    <title>Richard Kohn fires a warning flare about a Joint Force Quarterly article (Richard Kohn @ The Best Defense)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-18T10:45:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/09/29/richard_kohn_fires_a_warning_flare_about_a_joint_force_quarterly_article</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" If attempted by more than one officer, or as the product of discussion, disobedience becomes conspiracy and revolt, not exactly moral by any stretch of the imagination. Indeed, put into practice, what Milburn proposes would not only unravel the good order and discipline of the armed forces, but destroy all trust between the military and its bosses -- elected and appointed civilian leaders -- and its client: the American people. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:fc46389ef4b7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/22257/">
    <title>The insurgency widens – another crack in civilian control of our military (Fabius Maximus)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-18T10:43:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/22257/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" An important step in the evolution of an insurgency comes when it steps out of the shadows.  When its members assert their beliefs in public — going from assertion of special circumstances to statement of specific rights.  That’s necessary for it to bid for the widespread support needed to overturn the existing political regime.  With the Milburn article in JFQ we may have passed that milestone.  After that come alliances with powerful elements, and the compromises necessary for eventual victory.   And another nail hammered into the Constitution’s coffin. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:7ef7ed6d92fe/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ndu.edu/press/breaking-ranks.html">
    <title>Breaking Ranks: Dissent and the Military Professional (Andrew R. Milburn: Joint Forces Quarterly 59)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-18T10:40:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ndu.edu/press/breaking-ranks.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Just as civilian leaders have an obligation to challenge military leaders if the latter appear to be pursuing a strategy that undermines policy, military leaders are committed to challenge their civilian masters if the policy appears to be unconstitutional, immoral, or otherwise detrimental to the institution. Civilian control of the military does not obviate this obligation and should not be viewed simply as a unilateral and hierarchical relationship with clear boundaries. This is especially important now in this era of complex operations that blur the boundaries between military strategy and policy."]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:3718819d99ee/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/secdef-wars-remain-an-abstraction-for-most-americans/63973/">
    <title>SECDEF: Wars 'Remain An Abstraction' for Most Americans (James Fallows @ Atlantic)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-04T18:37:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/secdef-wars-remain-an-abstraction-for-most-americans/63973/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gates: "Even after 9/11, in the absence of a draft, for a growing number of Americans, service in the military, no matter how laudable, has become something for other people to do.  In fact, with each passing decade fewer and fewer Americans know someone with military experience in their family or social circle. "
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<dc:subject>military-civil-relations military-service</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:091f6086e804/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/the_surge_of_ideas/">
    <title>The Surge of Ideas (Michael Flynn, Institute for Policy Studies)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-15T00:43:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/the_surge_of_ideas/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" In recent years there has been a tendency for like-minded think tanks and military officers to jointly pursue policy objectives, sometimes in direct conflict with the stated preferences of the president and his advisers. According to some observers, this trend raises questions about the appropriate role of both military officers, who are part of a chain of command, and think tanks, which present themselves as “non-partisan” appraisers of public policy. "
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<dc:subject>think-tanks military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:547b25c5f2aa/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1092">
    <title>The Second Wave: Evidence Grows of Far-Right Militia Resurgence (Larry Keller, Southern Poverty Law Center)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-20T14:43:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1092</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Militia rhetoric is being heard widely once more, often from a second generation of ideologues, and conspiracy theories are being energetically revived or invented anew. "Paper terrorism" — the use of property liens, bogus legal documents and "citizens' grand juries" to attack enemies and, sometimes, reap illegal fortunes — is again proliferating, to the point where the government has set up special efforts to rein in so-called "tax defiers" and to track threats against judges. What's more, Patriot fears about the government are being amplified by a loud new group of ostensibly mainstream media commentators and politicians."
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<dc:subject>militia-movement military-service social-movements military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:bb689316174c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oath-keepers18-2009sep18,0,4937225.story?track=rss">
    <title>Organizer sees need to sound an alarm (Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-18T01:44:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oath-keepers18-2009sep18,0,4937225.story?track=rss</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Although Cardwell welcomes all concerned citizens to his meetings, the Oath Keepers' main message targets military and public safety personnel, active and inactive. It reminds them that they swore allegiance to the Constitution, not to politicians or bureaucrats. As such, they have the right to refuse orders they deem unlawful. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>military-service libertarians military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:ccaba3743877/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://oathkeepers.org/oath/about/">
    <title>Oath Keepers</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-28T04:48:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://oathkeepers.org/oath/about/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you, the American people, are forced to once again fight for your liberty in another American Revolution, you will not be alone. We will stand with you. There is at this time a debate within the ranks of the military regarding their oath. Some mistakenly believe they must follow any order the President issues. But you can rest assured that many others in the military do understand that their loyalty is to the Constitution, and understand what that means."
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<dc:subject>libertarians military-service gaaaah military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:71318dd5ef89/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/05/0082488">
    <title>Jesus Killed Mohammed: The Crusade for a Christian Military (Jeff Sharlet, Harper's)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-23T20:47:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/05/0082488</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When Barack Obama moved into the Oval Office in January, he inherited a military not just drained by a two-front war overseas but fighting a third battle on the home front, a subtle civil war over its own soul. On one side are the majority of military personnel, professionals who regardless of their faith or lack thereof simply want to get their jobs done; on the other is a small but powerful movement of Christian soldiers concentrated in the officer corps."
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<dc:subject>military-service religion military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:511208d8a4ae/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newsweek.com/id/202734?from=rss">
    <title>The Fight Over Evangelizing Military Chaplains (Kathryn Joyce, Newsweek)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-23T20:44:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/202734?from=rss</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Although President Obama addressed the Muslim world this month in an attempt to undo the Bush administration's legacy of militant Christian rhetoric that often antagonized Muslim countries, several recent stories have framed the issue as a wider problem of an evangelical military culture that sees spreading Christianity as part of its mission."
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<dc:subject>military-service religion military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:bf162649a242/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.goarmy.com/chaplain/index.jsp?iom=E040-ITBP-ACCH-02012009-NA-09021-TEXT01">
    <title>Army Chaplain Corps</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-23T02:11:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.goarmy.com/chaplain/index.jsp?iom=E040-ITBP-ACCH-02012009-NA-09021-TEXT01</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["U.S. Army Chaplains serve both God and country by bringing their unique gifts with which they are endowed by God, to the Soldiers of our nation in the broad, challenging, diverse, and ever changing environment of the Army. ... Qualified and sent by their religious bodies, trained by the U.S. Army, and led by the God that they serve, Army Chaplains are expected to exercise dynamic and influential spiritual leadership, without violating their faith or conscience. Army Chaplains are the 'soul and conscience' of our nation's Army."
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<dc:subject>gaaaah military-service religion military-civil-relations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:8aaafe934f88/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://donkeyod.blogspot.com/2006/10/sacrifice-of-few-by-bob-herbert.html">
    <title>Sacrifice of the Few (Bob Herbert @ New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-10-14T16:34:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://donkeyod.blogspot.com/2006/10/sacrifice-of-few-by-bob-herbert.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But there is a definite edge in his voice, an undercurrent of bitterness, when he talks about the tiny percentage of the American population that is shouldering the burden of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:c8b731fc5cc1/</dc:identifier>
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