The country lived under virtual Soviet domination for seventy years, a generation longer than the satellite states of Eastern Europe, and public opinion is staunchly pro-American. The embassy is a small building and somewhat less imposing than other posts, befitting the low "threat assessment" assigned to Mongolia. embassy as the defense attaché, as the security-assistance officer, and as the liaison for the military's Pacific Command (PACOM). Wilhelm's official roles at the time of my visit included serving at the U.S. Last year I traveled to Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, to meet Colonel Tom Wilhelm, one of the best of this new breed of American soldier-diplomats. "It is therefore a symbol of the kind of independence America wants to encourage in the world." Today, more often than not, the United States is encouraging that sort of independence not by intervening militarily on a grand scale but, rather, by placing a few quietly effective officers in key locations around the globe. Galsanjamts, a member of Mongolia's national-security council, told me recently.
"Mongolia is a vast country completely surrounded by two anti-American empires, Russia and China," S. And yet what was happening at the time in that country-90 percent of whose foreign military training and assistance now comes from the United States-was critical to the extension of America's global liberal influence. troops in Iraq were consolidating their hold over Baghdad, few people had their eyes on Mongolia.
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