The Foreign Service Journal, January 2012

J O U R N A L OREIGN ERVICE S F P RESIDENT ’ S V IEWS / 5 Marine Corps Culture and Institutional Success: Lessons for the FS? By Susan R. Johnson S PEAKING O UT / 13 The Next 50 Years By George F. Jones L ETTER FROM THE E DITOR / 18 By Steven Alan Honley F OREIGN S ERVICE C ROSSWORD P UZZLE / 76 By Jason Vorderstrasse L ETTERS / 6 C YBERNOTES / 9 M ARKETPLACE / 10 B OOKS / 64 I N M EMORY / 68 I NDEX TO A DVERTISERS / 74 Cover illustration by Jon Krause J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 2 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 3 C ONTENTS January 2012 Volume 89, No. 1 F O C U S O N F S R e f l e c t i o n s B ORN IN K ANSAS , M ADE IN A FRICA / 20 It is the many “unsung heroes” working day after day to make Africa a better place who hold the continent’s future in their hands. By Mark G. Wentling R EMEMBERING A NOTHER U NFORGETTABLE D AY / 25 A Foreign Service spouse reflects on a world-shattering day that defined a generation: Dec. 7, 1941. By Margaret Sullivan G ETTING TO K NOW Y OU / 28 A missing cat forges closer bonds between a Foreign Service family and their Kyiv neighbors. By Marsha Philipak-Chambers A P ROMISE TO A ISHA / 32 It takes a village to help an FSO keep his promise of aid to a Somali refugee. By Steve Hubler U NTIL W E M EET A GAIN / 35 On the eve of Mao’s victory in 1949, a Foreign Service wife breaks explicit State Department orders so she can reunite her family. By Marshall S. Clough F E A T U R E S H OMESICK : S UPPORTING THE E MOTIONAL L IFE OF E XPATRIATES / 40 Foreign affairs agencies need to do more to ensure that overseas employees and their families are offered appropriate care, privately and conveniently. By Adrienne Benson Scherger