Originally posted by Hortlund
No they dont. A guest professor or whatever critizises Bush. The army war college has repeatedly said that the views of the guest professor are his alone, and does in no way represent the views of the army or the war college.
But the director doesn't totally distance himself, or the college either, does he?
"This piece of work, like many others, certainly should be considered in the debate being taken place on national security policy," the institute's director, retired army colonel Douglas Lovelace, said.
He said it had "a fairly strong foundation of support among the academic faculty". "
And from here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8435-2004Jan11.html"But retired Army Col. Douglas C. Lovelace Jr., director of the Strategic Studies Institute, whose Web site carries Record's 56-page monograph, hardly distanced himself from it. "I think that the substance that Jeff brings out in the article really, really needs to be considered," he said. "
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"Many of Record's arguments, such as the contention that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was deterred and did not present a threat, have been made by critics of the administration. Iraq, he concludes, "was a war-of-choice distraction from the war of necessity against al Qaeda." But it is unusual to have such views published by the War College, the Army's premier academic institution."
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"Record, a veteran defense specialist and author of six books on military strategy and related issues, was an aide to then-Sen. Sam Nunn when the Georgia Democrat was chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
In discussing his political background, Record also noted that in 1999 while on the staff of the Air War College, he published work critical of the Clinton administration."
