WAR COLLEGE COMMAND GOES TO 7-YEAR POW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100120088-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 88
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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. Jonraal-Bulletin 5~ wrica _ -. with,the- job of tfie .running the- wllege:
him toward- conflicting paths. The tele----ammea~ata~y. -
over hardware as a focus of studyfor
the 380 commander-level officers .who
annually enroll in the school's graduate"
level program. , .
- Stockdale went on to stress. that war is
a ``basically illogical business" and should
be studied as such. He compared it to a
duel or brawl on a national level, adding
that human emotions under stress are a
better gauge of how nations react than
logic:
` ~ Stockdale was lauded by Adm. James
.1.. Holloway 3rd. chief of naval oiler-
- ations, as a man whose performance
from colleagues aiid'old friends,on how to, _ -While a prisoner of war has earned him a
perform the' job.. CTne old friend.. he,said, "permanent- place. among ,all ;naval he-
just'sent:hm atelegram saying that he is row-" - ? ~' "'
`Siockdale, ~ who -ivon the Medal of
Honor for his leadership of US. prisoners
during the seven: years he spent in a
North Vietnamese prison, had previously
been director of the Strategy, Plans and
Policy Division: of-the Office of the Chief
of.- Naval Operations. ~ ' : .
Ca1Gng his new command "the realiza-
tion of dreams that have gone on for at
least lp years," , he said he planned no
drastic~changes-in, tl:e-War Coilege cur-
riculum. -
He Said he-had already received advice
off new orders 2o:comina.^d the. hlav~'s , 4uotes from the first president of the War
- 4ti._ tolle a wha stressed the value cf histo
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