'Thought police' displeased by general's memo.

• Position: Washington Pulse - Media coverage of memo to army reserve forces - Brief Article

Senior Pentagon officials were not amused when a memo written by the U.S. general in charge of Army Reserve forces was leaked to the news media last December. The memo by Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly criticized the current reserve mobilization process--in place since 1952--as out of step with the times. The Army, he wrote in the summer of 2002, is "burdened by industrial-age mobilization policies."

After the memo turned up on major newspapers' front pages, Helmly's executive officer got a call from the Pentagon "thought police," he recalls during a speech to an industry...