{"id":666098,"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.com\/index\/666098","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":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Nhw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}