Ralph Peters believes that senior Army leadership encourages written criticism from its junior leaders ("Fighting and writing," October). I wonder what Army he served in. The small numbers of junior officers who are fortunate enough to have served under progressive, open-minded commanders probably have had good fortune in publishing. However, based on my soda-straw view of the big Army, publishing is OK so long as the young officer endorses the senior leadership "groupthink."

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2005/12/1830470