PRESS BRIEFING - Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell briefs the press at the Pentagon, July 14, 2010, on a range of topics, including the upcoming military exercise between the United States and South Korea. DoD photo by Cherie CullenPentagon Fine-Tunes Media Strategy On Afghan War -- Washington Post
The Pentagon is amping up efforts to explain its war strategy in Afghanistan to an increasingly war-weary public.
The push, which is timed to get ahead of a major review of the policy beginning this December, is outlined in an internal memo by Douglas. B. Wilson, the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. The new plan is built around a big increase in briefings from field commanders in Afghanistan to the Pentagon press corps, and mirrors the media strategy used when Gen. David H. Petraeus was commanding in Iraq in 2007, said defense officials.
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My Comment: No one wants to be another General McChrystal.
2 comments:
outstanding suit Geoff. Italian made? maybe with Berlusconi sign. Who knows...
Yup .... it definitely is a sharp suit.
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