This is not a matter of academic, technical or military standards. It is an issue of this nation's copryright laws. Nagl stated, "This is not the academic way, but soldiers are not academics; it is my understanding that this longstanding practice in doctrine writing is well within the provisions of “fair use” copyright law."
("Desperat People with Limited Skills") This may be his understanding, but if he did take it upon himself to find out if this is in fact true and had cited his legal sources (or military guidelines pertaining to such) it would have ended the issue.
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