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Given the source. this article arguing we need to rely less on our military comes from the highest echelons of the pentagon. mr. y is actually two people, both top-ranking members of admiral mike mullen's team, the joint chiefs of staff. they are captain wayne porter of the u.s. navy and colonel mark michaelby of the marine corps. it's likely that the essay had some official sanction, which means that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or perhaps even secretary of defense robert gates had seen it and did not stop its publication. so why did the authors call themselves mr. y? it's a play...