Well done Stan, good article. I responded as follows:

Mark May 6, 2014 at 2:28 pm ·
Rather than add the task of achieving “political objectives by other means” to the already long list of skills required by the officer corps would it not be more intelligent – in the light of near universal failure of national building efforts – to just accept it is not a military task?
A significant contributing factor in the demise of the British military has been the 'can do' response to any challenge by the military to the politicians when it was quite clear the objective could not be achieved. Is the same problem happening in the US?

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Link to finished product.

http://warontherocks.com/2014/05/dem...obayashi-maru/