The Pentagon is muscling in everywhere. It’s time to stop the mission creep.

By Thomas A. Schweich

We no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense into a striking number of aspects of civilian government….

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