Comments on: Brain drain?

By: Consul-At-Arms

Consul-At-Arms — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:38:49 +0000

@Chap,
They’re not barriers so much as a very rigorous screening process. There are a Hell of a lot more applicants every year than there is funding for new hires. They can be very choosy, so they are.

By: Chap

Chap — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:36:55 +0000

Consul,

That’s one reason I keep beating on ya for your department’s barriers to entry

By: James Fehr

James Fehr — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:16:57 +0000

For some insight into his thinking you might find his review of Brian Turner's war poetry book, Here Bullet useful, also he has a new wife and baby.

By: Consul-At-Arms

Consul-At-Arms — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:19:00 +0000

Currently working my way through Nagl’s book also.

Twenty years is a long time. I’m still troubled that, during wartime, we’re letting so many people out of the military, but that’s the logical consequence of our peacetime personnel policies, under which our military still operates. Given that this is “The Long War,” that may even make sense.

With a little luck, soon-to-be “Mister” Nagl will soon find himself appointed to a position where his former “superior officers” answer to him. Something where the word “Secretary” (and not with a small “s”) is in the job title.

By: Flatlander

Flatlander — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:10:24 +0000

I thought we read here recently that Petraus chaired a recent Army promotion board, which presumably would have shifted advantage to the skilled warfighters/COIN school, no?

By: snuffyny

snuffyny — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:42:57 +0000

Though it was a work of fiction, Anton Myrer’s “Once An Eagle” thoroughly details the difference between a “real soldier” and one who is a but a politician in uniform. The only difference is the time frame… and I think that it has been ever so. It’s life.