Several months later, I was in Tampa conducting CENTCOM’s annual war game. This was the only time each year that staff members from the Pentagon, State, and the White House participated. A few days later, The Washington Post reported about the war game. The story was picked up, and additional particulars about the game were published in several newspapers. I was chastised, on the assumption that CENTCOM had leaked the war game. Call me crazy, but if the only time our planning leaked was when we included Washington, I’d bet my paycheck the leak came from the banks of the Potomac River. At
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