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"Beware a 12-division strategy for a 10-division Army," Shinkseki warned at his retirement ceremony, an event attended by neither Rumsfeld nor Wolfowitz. It was a public rebuke that sent a shiver through the officer corps, and made clear that professional dissent - however carefully considered and delivered by a...
Finally, ballistic missile defense is very, very expensive. The non-partisan Government Accountability Office estimates that $107 billion was spent on missile defense by 2007, and another $49 billion will be spent if the program continues until 2012. The yearly $10 billion program budget alone is more than twice the...
• Since leaving the Corps he's spent time formally assessing the capabilities of the Iraqi military as well as trying to figure out where U.S. policy has gone wrong in Afghanistan.
• Since leaving the Corps, Jones has worked on energy issues as head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy and served on the boards of Boeing and Chevron.
• Jones' 40 years in a Marine uniform began as a platoon commander in Vietnam and ended with a pair of plum assignments - commander of the Marine Corps and NATO military chief. He retired from the Corps in 2007.