“Our military leaders have seen too many half-baked ideas for the use of military force advanced in the Situation Room by hairy-chested civilians who have never seen combat or fired a gun in anger.”
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
“The Militarization of the Presidency”
Armed Forces Journal
July 2012
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