[lg policy] US: Soldiers and diplomats still lack language skills

[Harold Schiffman]

 Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


The Washington Post



Soldiers and diplomats still lack language skills



Can we talk?



Not if it’s a foreign language, according to government auditors, who
issued a highly critical review of national security agencies’
programs Wednesday.



Tucked deep into the Government Accountability Office report was a
brief, disparaging passage on the foreign-language capabilities at the
departments of State and Defense.



The language situation was not only not improving, it said, it was
going backward.



Full story:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/06/gao_soldiers_and_diplomats_sti.html

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