It may seem heartening that then-Central Command’s Gen. James Mattis’s famous quip, “If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition,” is reflected, less pithily, in the writings of the chief of staff of the Middle East’s largest military. While a student at the U.S. Army War College in 2005, Egypt’s Sedki Sobhy observed, “U.S. military presence in the Middle East and the Gulf is only one instrument in this campaign [against terror],” and “the United States should pursue its strategic goals in the region through socioeconomic means.” Mattis now manages a militarized foreign policy … Continue reading Training the Man on Horseback: The Connection Between U.S. Training and Military Coups
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Training the Man on Horseback: The Connection Between U.S. Training and Military Coups
It may seem heartening that then-Central Command’s Gen. James Mattis’s famous quip, “If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition,” is reflected, less pithily, in the writings of the chief of staff of the Middle East’s largest military. While a student at the U.S. Army War College in 2005, Egypt’s Sedki Sobhy observed, “U.S. military presence in the Middle East and the Gulf is only one instrument in this campaign [against terror],” and “the United States should pursue its strategic goals in the region through socioeconomic means.” Mattis now manages a militarized foreign policy … Continue reading Training the Man on Horseback: The Connection Between U.S. Training and Military Coups