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Franks is clearly shrewd about avoiding battles he cannot win. Too shrewd, some say. When the Bush Administration wanted Jim Wilkinson, a former Bush campaign aide, to be Franks' spokesman--a job that has traditionally gone to a uniformed officer--the general went along, though many in the military complained...
And like any good soldier, the general knows when to keep his head down. Rumsfeld loves the spotlight; Franks is only too happy to stay out of it. "Franks thought that Schwarzkopf cut way too high a profile during the Gulf War," says a military subordinate who has worked on...
Everyone knows the story about the boy from Midland, Texas, who overcame the handicap of low expectations. But it belongs more to Tommy Franks than to George W. Bush. Franks was born in the tiny town of Wynnewood, in south-central Oklahoma, but moved as an infant with his mechanic...
It was in dusty Midland that Franks learned some of life's simplest pleasures: shooting birds and riding motorcycles, smoking cigars and drinking margaritas. After high school, he headed to the University of Texas, but he dropped out and enlisted in the Army. He began as a lowly private in...
He marched steadily up the Army's often unglamorous promotional ladder, serving in Texas, Korea, Germany and the Pentagon, and eventually earning two degrees. He won a reputation early on as an innovator in combat arms, serving in the few Army units that in those days encouraged experimentation. Retired General...