[JohnLongIsland]

what i have concluded from all of this is that the entrenched bureaucracy of the pentagon is not any different than the entrenched bureaucracy of the state department.

[RobbyS]

Military people are just like people in other large organization. Remember what they did to Bill Mitchell. Morer to the point, remember what they did to Secretary Forresthal. They drove him nuts. In 1954, General Ridgeway wanted a different kind of Army than the Administration. He lost out because he was up against IKE. Both hard men, but Ike was CINC.

[MNJohnnie]

what i have concluded from all of this is that the entrenched bureaucracy of the pentagon is not any different than the entrenched bureaucracy of the state department.

Or the CIA's. Excellent post.