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In the military culture, which places a premium on rank in decision making, many senior officers and their inner circles of aides do not bother to seek or follow the advice of more junior public affairs officers, despite their education, experience and training.
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Yet Vietnam undermines these efforts by allowing a tiny party elite to meddle in affairs of state, constantly overriding the advice of government technocrats and economic specialists.
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For over two decades, every incoming U.S. administration has reviewed Arab-Israeli diplomatic options, concluded (on the advice of the State Department's Near East Affairs Bureau) that the problem requires urgent, high-level U.S. diplomatic attention, and devised a "plan, " invariably implying that Israel's continuing hold on the territories captured in 1967 is a - perhaps the - principal impediment to peace in the region.
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