The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem.
We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.
I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.
The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.
In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.
As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, 'Oh, there's a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.'
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.
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