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MR, the professional journal published by the Army’s Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., puts the lie to the accusation that military professional journals are simply house organs and idea-averse. MR has run a number of highly controversial critiques of the Army’s performance in battling the Iraq counterinsurgency, including the now-infamous piece by British Brigadier Nigel R.F. Alwyn-Foster — you couldn’t make up a name like that. The current edition has a wonderful article on “The Great Captains of Chaos.” The September-October 2005 edition had an insightful piece on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a master asymmetrical strategist. We’re talking about out-of-the-box thinking from deep inside the Army box.