When he talks about military affairs, voters know he is not just regurgitating briefing notes.
Indeed, a virtual cottage industry has developed around the topic in Chinese literature on military affairs.
Moreover, even when it comes to strictly military affairs, soldiers are not necessarily more prescient than civilian policy makers.
Howard Teicher, former Senior Director of Political-Military Affairs at the National Security Council.
The second is that the judgment of soldiers is inherently superior to that of civilians when it comes to military affairs.
That quote comes from military affairs author and expert Roger Cirillo in reference to the difficulties people who advocate change face.
Mark Kimmitt, U.S. assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs chaired the "contact group" of two dozen nations and five multi-national organizations.
For a lot of that time he's been involved with military affairs.
To be sure, Charles Moskos, a sharp observer of military affairs, points out that the budget makes no provision for more manpower.
It will be months before policy analysts chime in with their thoughts on this new method of force projection in military affairs.
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Their successors have allowed only limited civilian control over military affairs.
The intervention in Libya therefore is a way to reassert to Europe, but particularly to Germany, that France still leads the Continent on foreign and military affairs.
So far Wahid has treated the problem at a remove: last week he ousted the army spokesman, who had questioned his right to intervene in military affairs.
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Whether they receive government benefits or not, though, veterans tend to pay closer attention to military affairs than other voters and they lean Republican in most elections.
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In the 1990s, the Pentagon stopped buying new military systems, and as a result the revolution in military affairs is being implemented with weapons that often seem more suited to museums.
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Military Affairs Correspondent Jamie McIntyre contributed to this report.
But few have laid out the catalogue of blunders in such damning fashion as Patrick and Andrew Cockburn, two brothers, both journalists, known respectively for their work on Middle Eastern and military affairs.
As he demonstrates, it is not necessary to be a dove or an anti-militarist to believe that, in some circumstances, it is appropriate and vital for politicians to immerse themselves in the details of military affairs.
If thoughts now turn to Jordan, it is in the realm of political transformation and not in military affairs, where Jordan can make a major contribution to stability that can pave the way to a future peace.
Train, active in foreign and military affairs for four decades as a citizen and writer (he's the author of such financial books as The Money Masters, which profiled Templeton), has a rsum suited to so sweeping a cause.
Neville Chamberlain, who was neither, starved the army and navy on the theory that the revolution in military affairs of his time made the only defense feasible that of a "Fortress Britain" protected by the Royal Air Force -- and then failed in building up the air force.
Among these were: an entrepreneur who had just sold her business for an eight-figure sum, the managing director of an investment bank, a U.S. manager of an international hotel chain, a publishing executive, the owner of a catering firm, and a specialist on military affairs in the Middle East who works at the UN.
Though U.S. military public affairs officers generally have Bachelors Degrees in communications while most have Masters Degrees by their mid-career days, they are typically relegated to the junior-most positions at military commands worldwide.
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McChrystal, rather than rely on his seasoned military public affairs staff, he apparently sought and accepted the advice of a relatively junior and inexperienced civilian "strategic communications" contractor by the name of Duncan Boothby.
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This established formal structures for the creation of links in political, military and economic affairs.
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Mr. Klein is an Israeli journalist who covers military and intelligence affairs for Time magazine's Jerusalem bureau.
In 1946, the standing committees on military and naval affairs combined to become the Armed Services Committee.
Like Mr Gates, he has a deep knowledge of military and intelligence affairs, broad bipartisan support and a streak of stubborn independence.
In eastern Slavonia, Cambodia and East Timor, where a single transitional administrator was responsible for both military and civilian affairs, co-ordination was much easier.
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Rich Goldenberg of the state Division of Military and Naval Affairs.
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