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<title><![CDATA[Gary Anderson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/29927.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Gary Anderson]]></description><category domain="29927">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps Being Destroyed From Within]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/17/us-marine-corps-destroyed-within/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My first official act as the Marine Corps officer instructor at the Naval ROTC at Vanderbilt University in 1979 was to blow up a classroom.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A First Draft for Secretary Hegseth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/01/17/a_first_draft_for_secretary_hegseth_1085560.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As your incoming Secretary of Defense, I am going to be brutally frank: the effectiveness and efficiency of our armed forces is at a low point not seen since the Carter administration.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Trump Can Do for the Military]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/11/11/what_trump_can_do_for_the_military_1071280.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump correctly realized that this election was about domestic 'kitchen table" issues and not foreign policy or military readiness. He alluded to the fact that there was much wrong with the Pentagon and vowed to fix it. The voters were interested in other issues, and he did not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Today's Generals and Admirals, Children of a Lesser God]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/05/28/todays_generals_and_admirals_children_of_a_lesser_god_1034268.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was 2012 when I first realized that our current group of four star military leaders are largely inept at best and incompetent at worst. I was serving as a Department of State advisor in Afghanistan, and it became obvious that the four star American who commanded all NATO forces (ISAF)...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Biden Crossed the Rubicon?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/has-biden-crossed-the-rubicon/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The raid on Mar-a-Lago was worse than a crime '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' it was a blunder.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Argument for Good Guys With Guns]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/an-argument-for-good-guys-with-guns/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No phrase is hated more by the anti-gun cartel than '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It challenges the narrative that guns in America are inherently bad and that the Second Amendment is obsolete. But the truth of that phrase was emphasized on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Need a Parents' Bill of Rights]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/parents-bill-of-rights/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When a school board in Long Beach decided to build an all-sex locker room, it cavalierly informed parents afterward.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Return of Malaise]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-return-of-malaise/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Republicans try to take back the Senate and House in 2022, they would be well advised to reprise the concept of malaise.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Military's Milley Disease]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/21/the-militarys-milley-disease/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[General Mark Milley represents everything that is wrong with America's senior military leadership today.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Heck of a Job on Border Security, Kamala]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/15/heck-of-a-job-on-border-security-kamala-harris/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who watched the Obama Administration closely knows that Joe Biden failed at just about every special assignment given to him by his president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Test for Privatization in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/test-privatization-afghanistan</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is one remote area of Afghanistan that might well serve as a laboratory for privatization - the provision of construction security for the Ring Road in the remote northwestern region.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Take Out ISIS With a Large-Scale Raid]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/10/12/the-right-way-to-take-out-isis-is-a-large-scale-raid/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gary Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Going beyond airpower to take down ISIS doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have to mean a new US occupation of Middle East territory. The best answer may well be a large-scale raid.A recent poll showed that over 70 percent of the American people believe that taking out ISIS will eventually require US combat...]]></description>
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