Gates in touch with the future but increasingly out of step with Pentagon's "big war" crowd

ARTICLE: "Pentagon Seeks Authority to Train and Equip Foreign Militaries," by Thom Shanker, New York Times, 16 April 2008, p. A8.

The task previously owned by State (til 2003), but let's get real: DoD should be in charge of training foreign militaries, so program rights extended and made permanent by Congress. The give was promised to shift some DoD bucks to pay for State Department-led joint program to build up civilian expertise for SysAdmin work. Watch State run that idea into the ground.

But I thought, in the vein of Army Chief of Staff General Casey, that the U.S. wasn't going to make future efforts to train foreign militaries like in Iraq? That's why we don't need a military advisory corps suggested by Nagl?

Hmmm.

Seems like the one-off crowd loses again. I just wish the Pentagon could get its story straight.

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[Louis Heberlein]

Did anyone else notice the lack of discussion about SysAdmin related topics by presidential candidates and media .... despite the information community background chatter that they are becoming a major topic to Washington bureaucratic elite? Hmmmn!