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PBS NewsHour
January 1, 2018
As of Monday, openly transgender people are allowed to serve in the U.S. military, despite President Donald Trump tweeting last July that he would “not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity.” We take a second look at a report on what the shift in military policy could mean forÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 17, 2017
And Trump avoided the draft, while retired Marine Colonel Gary Anderson calls Mattis “the finest combat leader we've produced since Korea.” Mattis also is a fiscal conservative. This is not a bad thing to have for someone running the Pentagon. It also may make Mattis skeptical of some of Trump's promiseÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 13, 2017
By Col. Gary Anderson, USMC (Ret.) Best Defense guest columnist. If we woke up tomorrow and found that none of our laptops, iPhones, iPads, or personal assistants worked, what would we do? I suspect that many millenials would go into brain freeze. They have literally never been off the web. HoweverÃâà...
The National Interest Online
October 27, 2017
The Journal story elicited an outburst from nattering nabobs in the press and on the internet. Former Naval War College military faculty member Colonel Gary Anderson held forth in the pages of the Washington Times, in a column sure to make you feel like the luckless patient in that old George Carlin joke.
Newsweek
August 14, 2017
The man retired Marine Colonel Gary Anderson calls “the finest combat leader our military has produced in decades'' looked like an “old graduate ..... 08_25_Generals_07 Col. H. R. McMaster, Commander of the 3rd ACR readies to lead members of the S-3 Scout Platoon of Remmington Troop whileÃâà...
Foreign Policy
September 26, 2014
By Col. Gary Anderson, USMC (Ret.) Best Defense guest columnist General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, knows that the Obama ... As a colonel commanding a camp on Okinawa in Japan in 1998, I became upset with a policy banning Okinawans from using the only recreationalÃâà...
