The Intellectual Warrior

摘要

Leonard G. Shurtleff-I can offer an anecdote which illustrates General Alfred M. Gray Jr.'s style of command. While I was American Ambassador to the Congo-Brazzaville in 1989, we received an official instruction that members of our six-man Marine security-guard detachment would not be permitted to attend embassy social events where representatives of "criteria countries" (the Soviet Union, East Germany and other Soviet Bloc states of Central Europe, and the People's Republic of China) would be present. This would mean that my wife Christine and I could not invite our Marines to attend the annual Fourth of July reception where all of our diplomatic colleagues, representing countries with which the United States had diplomatic relations, would be present. At these national-holiday affairs, all Americans in-country are always invited.