“You know things are going badly overseas when the military starts complaining that it’s taking on too much of the burden. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in prepared remarks given at Kansas State University on March 3, all but suggested that the military’s vaunted ‘Government in a Box’ strategy was missing a bunch of pieces, and that the ‘Whole of Government’ approach (that’s Government in a Box 1.0, coined last year by Gen. David Petraeus) was falling short of its goals in Afghanistan.” (03/16/10)