Officers Debate
Who’s to blame and what to do with the Army in Iraq. This WSJ piece on the debate within the officer corps focuses mainly on the failure to address the insurgency, and throws in Dunlap’s curve about doing it from the air. This is essential a post-2005 view that does not dwell on the failure of civilian leadership to build the Army for war in the fall of 2001, and the failure to send sufficent troops with a plan to secure Iraq in the first place.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:26 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2007
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June 30th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
The failure in leadership has to be laid at the door of the Senate and the House. They, along with their cohorts in the media, have managed to muddy the story of what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan to the point that the military is complaining of lack of support and arguing about who was at fault. The traitorous bastards are doing it to regain the power that they lost because of the last time they turned on the troops. The turncoats learned well in Vietnam and they’ll destroy this country in the pursuit of their goal.
June 30th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
A convergence on correctness is almost always based on failure and iterative adjustments when you’re dealing in previously unexplored territory.
The plans for every major conflict this nation has ever been involved in evolved over time. All of our successes were plagued by a multitude of failures of all sorts.
June 30th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
It will be interesting to see if Col. Yingling makes it to the rank of General now.
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:02 am
Considering that it is the (Democratic controlled) Congress who confirms all generals I’d say it’s pretty likely.