Top Marine Nominee Had a Hand In The Corps’ Transformation 

By Walter Pincus

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders. Pincus won an Emmy in 1981 and was the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy in 2010.  He was also a team member for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and the George Polk Award in 1978.  

OPINION — “That’s the thing we’ve always sought – kind of the Holy Grail – and now we’re doing it.”

Speaking was Marine Gen. Eric M. Smith before the Senate Armed Services Committee last Tuesday at his confirmation hearing to be the next Commandant of the Marine Corps. He currently is Assistant Commandant.

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