The army is so short of officers it now has to promote 98% of its captains to major. The folks who ought to be moving up the ranks of senior noncoms are being pushed through OCS. And 20% of the recruits get in only by waiving some of the enlistment standards. This is really, really, really bad news.
The Army is so short of officers it now has to promote 98% of its captains to major. The folks who ought to be moving up the ranks of senior noncoms are being pushed through OCS. And 20% of the recruits get in only by waiving some of the enlistment standards. This is really, really, really bad news.
Yes, having wrecked the civil service, Team Bush is well on its way to breaking the army. It took twenty years of back-breaking work for the Barry McCaffrey/Wes Clark generation of West Point grads to rebuild the Army after Vietnam. Now all that work is going to have to be done again.
How could anyone with an ounce of patriotism in his body not hate the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Rumsfeld Axis of Vandalism?
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com
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