I've been a little light on my posts lately. I've been kind of busy. Or maybe I just have a derth of interesting things to say. But I'm going to get back on the wagon.
I will start with my thesis topic. Or rather, the lack of a thesis topic. I'm in my final class of my masters degree and all I need now to actually HAVE a masters degree is a thesis. Yep, only 100 pages of my pontification is holding me back.
So, I can write about anything I want, port security, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, cyber security... But I keep going back to the balance of civil and military relations. I have a friend who works/worked/works for GEN McCrystal - yeah, no comment on that one other than, way to overreact Obama. I've also been studying up on the Korean War which includes when Truman sacked MacArthur for going too far up the Korean Penninsula. So these military folks got the boot, but what happens to folks in the State Department when they run afoul. Did Ikenberry get even a sideways glance when he released a public memo to cover his arse? Nope. It's curious, it really is. And I think I could write a few pages about it.
It's either that or how Clausewitz would raise a baby. Because I tell you what, raising a baby is like going to war, everything taken individually = very easy, put it all together, not so easy.
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I like the concept very much. On both accounts. Good luck.
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