National Security

The Pentagon’s Technology Chief Is an Utter F*cking Fool

PROFESSOR GRIFT

If you spout the right shibboleths, you can rise high in the ranks of the defense establishment despite being dangerously ignorant. Michael Griffin, case study.

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For the past 17 years, as the U.S. military has invaded, bombed, and attempted to pacify a fair-sized swath of the map, the assortment of military theorists, practitioners, profiteers, chroniclers and critics known as the “defense community” has engaged in a navel-gazing debate about its future.

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