Marriages of convenience don’t often end well.

This 5500 word feature in The National Interest started as a Facebook conversation with Milt Bearden, with whom I coauthored this. Milt, a CIA legend, won his war in Afghanistan. Mine seems to be limping to a sputtering end. Anyway, we have a long history of building partner forces and then kind of leaving them with little thought about what fruit that will bear. We need to. If we are to be a moral example for the world, how we treat others within it matters.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/america’s-foreign-legions-how-we-treat-our-proxies-defines-us-179277?fbclid=IwAR1ew5sQNACC_ZrikDd4LQE3hG0KehNuqiSTu1VH5YRKVUkDZj2ke5wx81M&page=0%2C3