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Command presence matters
By John S. Rainey C-I contributing columnist
Posted: December 6, 2012 5:49 p.m.
Updated: December 7, 2012 5:00 a.m.
A Nov. 16, 2012, op-ed by Lucian Truscott IV published in The New York Times declares that our post-World War II military leadership has traded true fighting spirit for “talk shows and photo spreads” and “military-spec business suits” and, therefore, has failed to succeed in battle since “the stalemated Korean War.” Truscott’s linkage between alleged military failures and a general officer population of “strutting military peacocks” is readily contradicted by the two men he ...

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