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...Central Command (CENTCOM) is one of the strangest organizations in the U.S. military. It has no troops to call its own, just responsibility for a huge arc of turf, from the Horn of Africa to Pakistan, that is home to some of the world's most dangerous neighborhoods. Franks' job--held in the past by such men as Norman Schwarzkopf and Anthony Zinni--is to meet and befriend the civilian leaders of each of the region's 25 countries in case the U.S. needs to drop in on short notice to clean things up. When that time comes, the general...
...wasn't long before Franks was a marked man. After he served in Desert Storm, directing helicopter and ground units, the Army's high command gave him the job of remaking the service for the post--cold war world. "He has an uncanny ability to look at complex situations and go from concept to application," says Sullivan, who launched the effort. A steady stream of plum assignments came Franks' way in the 1990s, culminating in the Central Command, and his fourth star, in July...
...cleared Franks of the other allegations. "I've been on the plane and seen Cathy excuse herself many times when he was briefed on something above her classification," a Centcom officer says. "It seems very petty." Franks and his wife sit next to each other on his aging 707 command plane--there are four stars on his headrest and four hearts on hers. "It's cute," says a fellow passenger. "When she doesn't travel, he likes to leave that seat empty...
Franks will climb aboard his command plane for Qatar this week, and he won't be back for a while. At lunchtime last Friday hundreds of Centcom troops and staff gathered out behind Franks' headquarters while listening to the country music of Neal McCoy. He's a Texas country-and-western star who traveled with Franks to visit the troops in Afghanistan over Thanksgiving. Before McCoy and his band began their hour-long set, Franks got up, microphone in hand, and belted out a version of an old Charley Pride tune called (Is Anyone Going to) San Antone? As Franks...
...mustard gas. Disagreement may look like treason. Due process may appear to be an unaffordable luxury. The First Amendment may seem optional. The peacetime fail-safe checks and balances (Congress and courts keeping the presidency honest) may strip themselves down to a military principle--deference to the chain of command, and to the Com-mander in Chief...