A fascinating article on the United States military’s man in Mongolia, Colonel Tom Wilhelm. Wilhelm is depicted here as a modern day combination solider-diplomat helping Mongolia run the fine line between China and Russia. The author portrays this role as a new phenomena but I believe it is an extension of an older US tradition with examples dating back to Presley Neville O’Bannon (of ‘To the shores of Tripoli’ fame) through to John Paul Vann in Vietnam.
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