State Dept. planning to field a small army in Iraq

nmap · 08-01-2010, 10:49

The U.S. Army gets to supply equipment. Contractors will do the rest. The U.S. State Department will run the show.

What could possibly go wrong?

LINK

Dozer523 · 08-01-2010, 12:36

Any statement that includes the phrase "blurring the line between . . ." makes me nervous.

Sigaba · 08-01-2010, 12:49

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Originally Posted by Dozer523

Any statement that includes the phrase "blurring the line between . . ." makes me nervous.

FWIW, I agree.

This blurring of the lines was suggested by SecDef Gates to the state department. He laid out the case for the blurring in a piece for the May/June 2010 issue Foreign Affairs. That essay is available here. (FWIW, I find his discussion of SF problematic.)

Transformation is just around the corner...

ZonieDiver · 08-03-2010, 14:43

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Originally Posted by nmap

The U.S. Army gets to supply equipment. Contractors will do the rest. The U.S. State Department will run the show.

What could possibly go wrong?

LINK

I hope it is not anything like this:

**Box** · 08-03-2010, 20:52

sounds like politik-speak for "we're all out of ideas"