By Nicholas Murray
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Best Defense department of remedial PME
"It is just not
learning with your partners and your peers and your partners and peers from
other nations. It is also about spending a little time with your family. I
think that is incredibly important."-- General
Raymond Odierno speaking to the graduating class of 2013 at the Army War
College, Carlisle, PA
All of the talk of
the effect of the furlough on the military has missed one important factor.
What is going to happen to our military schools? Well, it's not looking good:
at least, not from the perspective of the Army's Command and General Staff
College at Fort Leavenworth. A curriculum that has already been roundly criticized
as overwhelmingly bloated and far too focused on teaching information the
officers should already know is about to get compressed into less time. It is
often claimed that the college is modeled on a good quality graduate school or
should resemble one. Indeed, Gen. Robert Cone (commanding general of U.S. Army
Training and Doctrine Command) wrote in a recent article in Military Review: "There is no reason not
to demand the equivalent of Harvard on the Missouri at Leavenworth...."
That's great, and I agree. However, there is a huge roadblock in the way: the
schedule. ...
