{"id":3231,"date":"2009-10-15T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2009-10-16T19:40:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T19:40:20","slug":"featured-at-the-atlantic-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3231","title":{"rendered":"Featured at the Atlantic Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

My\u00a0post below, with minor alterations,\u00a0has just been re-published at the Atlantic Council<\/strong> <\/a>on their blog, courtesy of managing editor,\u00a0Dr. James Joyner<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

State Department Must Reform or Die<\/a><\/p>\n

Much appreciated, Dr. Joyner!<\/p>\n

ADDENDUM<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Karaka Pend<\/a><\/strong> ties related posts on the inadequacy of the State Department together:<\/p>\n

The State Department has a mission, if they choose to accept\u00a0it.<\/a><\/p>\n

Karaka<\/strong> also points to this TNR<\/strong><\/em> op-ed by Dr. Steve Metz<\/a><\/strong> of SSI<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

The Civilian Surge Myth<\/a><\/p>\n

….No one welcomes this more than the military. In the absence of civilian capacity, soldiers end up managing public services like trash collection, or trying to teach democracy and good governance. At a major conference on irregular conflicts last month, I listened as a decorated Marine colonel heading for command in Afghanistan talked of how that conflict would unfold when<\/em> the civilian surge was in place. As a Pentagon official heard this, he told me, “The military is looking to off-load nation building; they are so desperate to do that–and so eager to enshrine the lessons from the Iraq counterinsurgency–that they have convinced themselves of\u00a0the necessity and plausibility of a civilian surge.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ADDENDUM II. – COURTESY OF SCHMEDLAP<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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My\u00a0post below, with minor alterations,\u00a0has just been re-published at the Atlantic Council on their blog, courtesy of managing editor,\u00a0Dr. James Joyner. State Department Must Reform or Die Much appreciated, Dr. Joyner! ADDENDUM: Karaka Pend ties related posts on the inadequacy of the State Department together: The State Department has a mission, if they choose to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[587,321,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantic-council","category-blogosphere","category-blogroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}