Eating soup with a knife

Anyone of you FCPers get a chance to read Lt. Col. John Nagl's work based off his Oxford dissertation? Looks good. Follow the link to a recent slate.com article. The article resonates a bit with my sister and bro-in-law. The former is a chief financial officer for one of the new City Center condos in Vegas, and the latter -- a 1st Sgt. -- was just sent over to Iraq for his second tour.

Upon departure from Las Vegas, he was interviewed by a local television station and said, "This is what we train for. This is what we do." I don't know if Fred Kaplan would think of a 1st Sgt. as "mid-level officer" material, but there are a certain amount of tours the American public might expect our soldiers to partake in so as not to drive them, their experience and intellect included, from the ranks. I digress.