{"id":65045,"date":"2017-11-08T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65045"},"modified":"2017-11-07T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T03:41:00","slug":"caste-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65045","title":{"rendered":"Caste Forth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2017\/10\/exclusive-former-west-point-professors-letter-exposes-corruption-cheating-and-failing-standards-full-letter\/\">the failure of leadership<\/a> at the academy.<\/p>\n<p>But enough hammering on the Army.\u00a0 Let\u2019s talk about the Navy, with<a href=\"http:\/\/gcaptain.com\/editorial-red-red-us-naval-leadership-not-command\/\"> two collisions this year, what\u2019s happening to its leadership?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Makes one wonder: do we need a professional officer corps?\u00a0 Would senior non-coms be enough to teach new recruits the basics, leaving strategy and tactics to a small group of experts?\u00a0 Do we need military officers worrying about diversity and career opportunities for women \u2013 aren\u2019t there enough people in academia, the media and politics doing that already?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not an academic question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Former professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point writes about the failure of leadership at the academy. But enough hammering on the Army.\u00a0 Let\u2019s talk about the Navy, with two collisions this year, what\u2019s happening to its leadership? Makes one wonder: do we need a professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65046,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65045\/revisions\/65046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}