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12-01-2006, 10:21 AM
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New interagency initiative unveiled
This is a several month old initiative launched through the efforts of LTG Petraeus and Assistant Secretary of State John Hillen.
http://www.usgcoin.org/ While it's in its infancy stage, hopefully the strength of personalities will allow for victory over the bureaucracy that has limited a more successful application of all forms of national power. For a longer read on how bureaucracy helped defeat us in Vietnam, here's Robert Komer's classic, "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing": http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R967/ It's one of the must read reports/books from my Strategic Studies program for the PhD candidates, and it's made Tom Ricks (author of "Fiasco") top ten list for books to read to understand Iraq, http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syl...2Aentries%2A=0.
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