{"id":327710,"date":"2010-02-16T16:16:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T21:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76734"},"modified":"2010-02-16T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T21:16:15","slug":"pentagon-hires-public-diplomacy-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/327710","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Hires Public-Diplomacy Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me if this reads like I&#8217;m greasing a source, but as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/02\/shelby-releases-holds-on-obama.html\">holds on administration appointees released by Sen. Richard Shelby<\/a> (R-Ala.) last week, Douglas Wilson became the Pentagon&#8217;s new assistant secretary for public affairs. Why&#8217;s that significant? Because at a time when global skepticism about U.S. military power is still in evidence &#8212; and when U.S. troops are still engaged in a war in Afghanistan &#8212; Wilson stands out as a decades-long veteran of public diplomacy efforts at a variety of agencies. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/30329\/doug-wilson-will-not-be-undersecretary-of-state-for-public-diplomacy\">He spoke to me last year when he was up for the top public-diplo spot at the State Department<\/a>, a job that ultimately went to Judith McHale of the Discovery Channel. He&#8217;s also the rare senior communications official who&#8217;s put together a concerted interagency strategy for public diplomacy,<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/30777\/a-proposed-strategy-for-public-diplomacy\"> which you can read about in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me if this reads like I&#8217;m greasing a source, but as part of the holds on administration appointees released by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) last week, Douglas Wilson became the Pentagon&#8217;s new assistant secretary for public affairs. Why&#8217;s that significant? Because at a time when global skepticism about U.S. military power is still in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}