What did the new head of NDU write about while at the Army War College?

The
title of General
Martin's paper in 2000 was "Jesus
the Strategic Leader." On the face of it, not necessarily a bad
paper. I mean, making the argument would be an uphill climb, but Jesus of
Nazareth did initiate a spiritual revolution that transformed large parts of
the world. And he was into the trinity long before Clausewitz. In the hands of
the right thinker, it would be interesting to place Jesus in a strategic
context. (It also would be interesting to compare him as a strategic leader to
Moses, Siddh?rtha
Gautama Buddha, and
Mohammed.)

But not
in the hands of Martin. John
Schindler, a professor of national
security affairs
at the Naval War College, writes in his blog that Martin's essay is a stinker.
"The paper is poorly
done," Schindler writes. "I would have failed it . . . . In terms of academic quality, this is
crap, pure and simple."

I think Schindler is harsh but correct.
Parts of the paper read like parody. Not only are we told that Jesus assembled a "top team," it turns out he
would have made a good battalion commander. (All this time, I thought he had
been a corporal.) "Jesus recognized the value of conducting AAR's," Martin writes. With a straight face.

Indeed, Jesus was practically an Army Ranger. He
knew and taught the importance of traveling light, Martin observes. (Didn't he
say somewhere in the gospels, "Don't forget nothing"?) He also understood the importance of taking time
to recharge his batteries, we are told. And he knew how to pick his battles,
rendering unto Caesar.

Judas is mentioned in the paper, but Martin does
not grapple with the issue of how such a great strategic leader could be so
wrong about one of his 12 closest subordinates.

I could go on. But it is like shooting fish in a
barrel. At some point, one must just avert one's eyes from this mess. It does
make me wonder why someone thought he was just the guy to steer NDU
through a stormy era.
That said, his bio says he has a PhD in engineering management from MIT, and
that his dissertation subject was organizational change.