Army Promotion

An army strained to the limits in Iraq--my take
Also see these earlier posts: discontent with senior officers; troop shortages; lowering promotion standards; flood of officers leaving army; strained military; Gary Hart on the strained army; and recruiting problems. ...

Left High and Dry
... Lt. Colonel to Brigadier, who form the bulk of the Army now, are suffering due to the critical deficiency. The applicants outnumber the availability of the posts. As a result, deserving officers are rejected for a higher promotion. ...

The Latest War Profiteer is 22-Years-Old. 22!
With the award last January of a federal contract worth as much as nearly $300 million, the company, AEY Inc., which operates out of an unmarked office in Miami Beach, became the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan’s army and ...

Thoughts On The Eliot Spitzer Sex Scandal by Pastor Chuck Baldwin
promotion–perhaps even their very position. Adultery is the cause of countless divorces and the source of many children’s and teenagers’ societal malfunction. It is a curse on our country. No one abhors adultery more than I do. ...

Change at top of Central Command puts US Army back in charge, for now
Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted the unusual circumstances facing Dempsey, who recently was nominated for promotion to four-star rank, but in a different job — as commander of US Army Europe. It is not clear whether Dempsey ...

An Anatomy of The Obama Doctrine
They envision a doctrine that first ends the politics of fear and then moves beyond a hollow, sloganeering democracy promotion agenda in favor of dignity promotion, to fix the conditions of misery that breed anti-Americanism and ...

Young Efraim
Its rise from obscurity once seemed to make it a successful example of the Bush administration’s promotion of private contractors as integral elements of war-fighting strategy. But an examination of AEY’s background, through interviews ...

Other Items
The above is the opening paragraph of Paul Kane's 42 Democrats Vow a Drawdown in Iraq If They Win Seats (Washington Post) and it is cited by angry visitor who is furious with you (me) for your non-stop promotion of this plan and ...

Young Efraim
In January, American officers in Kabul, concerned about munitions from AEY, had contacted the Army’s Rock Island Arsenal, in Illinois, and raised the possibility of terminating the contract. And officials at the Army Sustainment Command ...

Rumsfeld eyes new posts for top generals: Commander during s
Further, Sanchez's promotion would showcase the nation's highest-ranking Hispanic officer and his compelling personal story of growing up poor in south Texas and using the military as an escalator out of poverty, at a time when the Army ...