Army Promotion

Spencer Ackerman: The Colonels and 'The Matrix'
Counterinsurgents noted glumly that Nagl never received a promotion to full colonel. Even with Petraeus at the helm of the promotions board, some wonder whether a colonel named HR McMaster, who successfully implemented a ...

Chinese Servicemen’s Views of USAF Airmen and Education
No later than 18 months after their promotion, company-grade officers must go to junior-officer schools to take a six-week course. Then, for every step up, they must attend military schools, some as long as 12 weeks, some as short as ...

Media Roundup: Campus, Catholics, California and more…
A soldier claimed Wednesday that his promotion was blocked because he had claimed in a lawsuit that the Army was violating his right to be an atheist. Attorneys for Spc. Jeremy Hall and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation refiled ...

Book Review: River Run Red; The Fort Pillow Massacre, Andrew Ward
As his ministers’ memoranda piled up on his desk, he agreed to meet Frederick Douglas [famous abolitionist, born a slave] to discuss the massacre and the unequal pay and promotions accorded black troops by the Union army. ...

Our Crusading Army
The Army is accused of being too Christian-based. So says a Specialist in Kansas who’s suing the government gunslingers for allegedly blocking a promotion because of his atheist beliefs. It appears to have all started when Specialist ...

This Isn't Television
Suddenly, there seemed to be a movement of new girlfriends and wives touting the show as the equivalent of the Bible in the world of the Army wife and an even greater backlash of more seasoned wives turning up their noses to point out ...

The Anti-Empire Report
And last year the Washington Post informed us that Chester Crocker, former Assistant Secretary of State and current member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, noted that we have to be able to cope with ...

Laugh! It’s the British Raj (Book Review)
The boy’s father is a lowly sergeant, his mum a long suffering army wife, and their blimpish Colonel ever seeks promotion to higher rank. Wee Charlie, innocently battling Life’s monsters, has his own world where adults intrude in ways ...

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Where Are The Leaders?
Map all of this on to the black comedy unfolding in our nation’s capital and it appears that we have elected an army of well-meaning people who has a value system based on self-promotion, survival and keeping the boss happy. ...