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Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

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Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

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About Maureen Dowd

Maureen Brigid Dowd (; born January 14, 1952) is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, Dowd worked for The Washington Star and Time, writing news, sports and feature articles. She joined The New York Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter, and became an op-ed writer in 1995.
In 1999, Dowd received a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.