DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT STRATEGY

Is the military shortchanging its war colleges - and its future?

Author(s): Laura Peterson Date: July 9, 2006 Page: E4 Section: Ideas

LAST SEPTEMBER, in a speech commemorating the 60th anniversary of the National War College in Washington, D.C., alumnus and former Secretary of State Colin Powell warned students that they would graduate into a world facing radically different threats, and ideas about how to fight them, than when he entered the school 30 years ago, at the height of the Cold War. Yet teaching military officers how to negotiate such changes is what the institution was established to do, Powell reminded them. It was at the National War College that he learned to think beyond the boundaries of his infantry training, to understand "the role of diplomacy" and "nasty, dirty, noisy politics."
Powell embodies, for many, the thoughtful warrior-the soldier able to think critically about his country's actions and draw......

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