Friday, August 5, 2011

Gen. James Cartwright, maverick who ?jolted the system,? is honored at Marine Barracks

On Wednesday, the Pentagon lost perhaps its foremost thinker on cyber warfare, Gen. James E. Cartwright, who is retiring as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after 40 years of service in the Marines.

At a farewell ceremony under a gray, drizzly sky at the parade field of the U.S. Marine Barracks, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his outgoing deputy, William J. Lynn III, paid tribute to an officer Panetta called ?one of the military?s most original thinkers,? who ?possesses a unique blend of technical and strategic brilliance.?

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