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47. Nathan Hodge, “How a Plugged-In DC Think Tank Published a General’s Brutal Intel Critique.” Wired , January 8, 2010 http://www.wired.com/2010/01/how-a-plugged-in-dc-think-tank-published-a-generals-brutal-intel-critique/

48. Politico ’s Laura Rozen, “Mil intel report sig of more defiance by the generals?” Politico, January 6, 2010 (http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0110/Mil_intel_report_sign_of_more_defiance_by_the_generals_.html?showall).

49. Thomas E. Ricks, “Travels with Paul (I): A time to build.” Foreign Policy, January 13, 2011 (http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/13/travels_with_paula_i_a_time_to_build).

50. Paula Broadwell with Vernon Loeb, All In: The Education of General Petraeus. New York: Penguin Books, 2012 (http://www.amazon.com/All-In-Education-General-Petraeus/dp/B00F6IM5CW).

51. Tara McKelvey, “Too Close for Comfort? Tom Ricks and the military’s new philosophical embeds.” Columbia Journalism Review, September 9, 2009 (http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/too_close_for_comfort.php?page=all&print=true).

52. Center for a New American Security, “CNAS Releases Afghanistan Policy Brief by Andrew Exum.” Center for a New American Security, October 20, 2009 (http://www.cnas.org/media-and-events/press-release/cnas-releases-afghanistan-policy-brief-by-andrew-exum#.UyH0GfldUtM).

53. SWJ Editors, “CNAS Releases Afghanistan Policy Brief.” Small Wars Journal, October 20, 2009 (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/cnas-releases-afghanistan-policy-brief); Frontline, “Obama’s War: Interview with Andrew Exum.” PBS, August 5, 2009 (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/interviews/exum.html).

54. Frontline, “Obama’s War,” op. cit.

55. Nathan Hodge, “How the Afghan Surge Was Sold.” Wired, December 3, 2009 (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/how-the-afghan-surge-was-sold/).

56. Andrew Alexander, “Undisclosed conflict in a review of Jon Krakauer’s book on Pat Tillman.” Washington Post, November 15, 2009 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/13/AR2009111303346.html).

57. Exum blogged at Abu Muqawama, his nom de guerre. See: Abu Muqawama, “On Defense Policy Analysts and Conflicts of Interest.” January 12, 2012 (http://www.cnas.org/blog/on-defense-policy-analysts-and-conflicts-of-interest-5862#.U6slwvldXyG).

58. Nathan Hodge, “Coalition of the Shilling.” The Nation, March 11, 2010 (http://www.thenation.com/article/coalition-shilling).

59. Joan Vennochi, “The press had a crush on David Petraeus, too.” Boston Globe, November 18, 2012 (http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/11/18/david-petraeus-seduction-media-pays-off/uMaGeGBIgV7LxjhsOS5H7M/story.html).

60. Jon Lee Anderson, “The Petraeus Illusion.” The New Yorker, November 13, 2012 (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/11/the-petraeus-illusion.html).

61. SWJ Editors, “CNAS Releases Afghanistan Policy Brief.” Small Wars Journal, October 20, 2009 (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/cnas-announces-new-research-agenda-and-website).

62. Center for a New American Security, “CNAS Announces 2014 Next Generation National Security Leaders.” Press release, Center for a New American Security, February 11, 2014 (http://www.cnas.org/next-generation-2014-release#.UyD8SfldXiE).

CNAS leaders are still finding high-level positions at the White House: in 2014, CNAS CEO Robert Work was nominated by President Obama to be Deputy Secretary of Defense after just a year as CNAS CEO; before that, he was Under Secretary of the Navy (Center for a New American Security, “CNAS CEO Robert Work Nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense.” Press release, Center for a New American Security, February 7, 2014 [http://www.cnas.org/CNAS-CEO-Robert-Work-Nominated-Deputy-Secretary-Defense#.UypQ1vldUtM]).

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is on the board of directors, as are former BAE Systems CEO Linda Hudson and former senator Joseph Lieberman (Center for a New American Security, “CNAS Announces Changes to Board of Directors.” Press release, Center for a New American Security, November 4, 2013 [http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/press/Board%20Changes%20PR%20(10.04.13).pdf]).

Michèle Flournoy is scheduled to serve as interim CEO of CNAS until its board selects a successor for Work; she has also decamped as a “senior adviser” for Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) “growing Public Sector” portfolio (Center for a New American Security, “CNAS CEO Robert Work Nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense.” Press release, Center for a New American Security, February 7, 2014 [http://www.cnas.org/CNAS-CEO-Robert-Work-Nominated-Deputy-Secretary-Defense#.U0WG1_ldVqV]).

Andrew Exum became a consultant for BCG (Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, “Ethics Matter: The Future of War, with Andrew Exum.” Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, December 12, 2013 [https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/calendar/data/0467.html]; Boston Consulting Group, “Former DoD Under Secretary Michèle Flournoy Joins BCG as Senior Adviser.” Press release, Boston Consulting Group, July 16, 2012 [http://www.bcg.com/media/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?id=tcm:12-109698]).

Tom Ricks, over on the “The Best Defense,” is trying to make sense of the new “anti-COIN” movement, with longtime COIN backer David Kilcullen (Thomas E. Ricks, “Kilcullen speaks: On COIN going out of style, his recent book, Syria, and more.” Foreign Policy, February 12, 2014 [http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/02/12/kilcullen_speaks_on_coin_going_out_of_style_his_recent_book_syria_and_more]).

And Hillary Clinton, of course, is still in the picture.

63. See Janine R. Wedel, Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market. New York: Basic Books, 2009, pp. 165-176.

64. See the “Neocon Core” graphic (http://janinewedel.info/shadowelite.html).

65. Wedel, Shadow Elite, op. cit., pp. 177-191.

66. This quote from Stubbs is in: Paul Stubbs and Janine Wedel, “Policy Flexians in Global Order: Contexts, Cases and Consequences,” Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance , Alexandra Kaasch and Kerstin Martens, eds., forthcoming. See also Charles Morris, The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets. New York: Public Affairs, 2009.

67. See: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/think-tank-fund

68. See Paul Stubbs, “‘Managing’ Consultancy: charisma, competence and translation in transnational spaces,” Paper for American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Montreal, November 2011 (http://www.scribd.com/doc/71677033/Stubbs-Managing-Consultancy-Charisma-competence-and-translation-in-transnational-spaces) (accessed 2 January 2013); Paul Stubbs, “Blitz Statement on the Role of NGOs” (http://www.moneynations.ch/topics/euroland/text/paulblitz.htm) (accessed 2 January 2013); Paul Stubbs, “Flex Actors and Philanthropy in (Post-)Conflict Arenas: Soros’ Open Society Foundations in the Post-Yugoslav Space,” Politi č ka misao/Croatian J. of Political Science , vol. 50, no. 5, 2013, pp. 114-138); and Paul Stubbs and Janine Wedel, “Policy Flexians in Global Order: Contexts, Cases and Consequences,” in Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance , Alexandra Kaasch and Kerstin Martens, eds., forthcoming.

69. Paul Stubbs and Janine Wedel, “Policy Flexians in Global Order: Contexts, Cases and Consequences,” Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance , Alexandra Kaasch and Kerstin Martens, eds., forthcoming.