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Harvard’s criticism reflected a more widespread dissatisfaction with the educational rigor of ROTC. Princeton President Harold W. Dodd, for example, believed that its ROTC program was too segregated from civilian instruction...
...Science and Tactics, presented the College with a three-pronged proposal to reform ROTC. He suggested that summer training extend to at least 12 weeks, that the campus four-year program be whittled down to three years, and that the College institute “an expanded program of civilian instruction in ROTC classes,” The Crimson reported...
...much more consequential arc of the preceding 57 months. The nearly five years that separated D-day from the war's outbreak provided time for America the Unready to draft, train and deploy an invasion force of some 3 million men; time to season those untested civilian soldiers in North Africa and Italy; time to stockpile in Britain nearly 5 million tons of munitions, thousands of aircraft and an armada of 6,483 ships; time for British and U.S. bombers to cripple Germany's industrial plant and snarl its rail lines; time for the Soviets to bleed the Wehrmacht white...
...ornate mansion known as China House, which serves as the headquarters of Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.). The Iraqis pointed guns at Chalabi's guards and ordered them to load the police vehicles with the office's computers, documents and files. Outside, a group of Americans dressed in civilian clothes watched with approval while smoking Cuban cigars and drinking sodas taken from Chalabi's office fridge. An I.N.C. official tells TIME the Americans identified themselves as FBI and CIA but refused to show identification. "The Americans were sitting there, egging on the Iraqis," says the official. "They...
...government." The FBI investigation, sources say, will probably involve dozens of agents and a full arsenal of investigative techniques, possibly including court-authorized searches and wiretaps. The probe will examine whether U.S. officials illegally transmitted state secrets to the I.N.C. The investigation could ultimately reach high-ranking civilian officials at the Pentagon and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) who have dealings with Chalabi and his organization...