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I'm curious what Lind's political affiliation is? Wasn't he an advisor to Sen. Gary Hart? Not that it would matter much, his work stands on it's own. I've just started reading Manuver Warfare...great stuff.

Unfortunately, I read Robert Coram's book "Boyd", which painted the entire group as being pro-Democrat and anti-Reagan. I'm hoping this was just Coram's little wet dream as it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Lind is very right wing. He actually admits to being a monarchist when you can pin him down.
He started working for Senator Taft in 1969 and eventually went to work for Hart who was once considered a conservative Democrat before that creature went all but extinct. He currently works for the Free Congress Foundation. He is a Patrick Buchanan conservative. The Military Reform Caucus was actually pretty bipartisan. Newt Gingrich started to make a name for himself there as well.

Coram paints a picture of guys who were against reckless spending, lying, blatant corporate greed, and people who substituted spending for a real strategy (think Department of Education's solution to most problems. Sadly, DOD has a similar default all too often. Don't believe me, check out www.d-n-i.net). Those are not Dem or Pub issues, they are American issues. I admire President Reagan as much as anyone on this site, but if you sit down and look at the numbers, you will see he was ill served by some of his subordinates.