Withdrawal Symptoms

James K. Galbraith

A chapter in Unbearable Cost, 2006, pp 106-109 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In November 2004, Lt General Ricardo Sanchez came to a luncheon at my professional home, the LBJ School of Public Affairs. I attended and asked some inconvenient questions. It was an inconsequential exchange, but two weeks later I received a surprising invitation. Would I fly to Germany in February and speak to the leadership of the Army V Corps about the operational conditions of Iraq? I have no military experience, and have never been to Iraq, while many in my audience — mostly generals and colonels — had spent over a year there. But of course I went. My unstated assignment was to say some inconvenient things, which may have otherwise gone unsaid.

Keywords: Withdrawal Symptom; Military Power; Military Experience; Professional Home; World Security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230236721_30

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