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Syria Crisis Underlines Pentagon’s Move to the Back Seat

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09.13.2013 at 09:37pm

Syria Crisis Underlines Pentagon’s Move to the Back Seat by Thom Shanker, New York Times.

As President Obama considers an attack on Syria, any strike would be carried out by a Defense Department and military transformed by the commander in chief.

The civilian policy makers and generals who led Mr. Obama toward a troop escalation in Afghanistan during his first year in office — a decision that left him deeply distrustful of senior military leaders — have been replaced by a handpicked leadership that includes Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff…

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