Though in the future, post a link as you did and then you don't need to paste the entire article, just a short excerpt will do -- that way the Blog avoids copyright problems...

This:
"We should be stationing our troops in places where they won't be earning the Medal of Honor because the population and terrain favor us and we have quick access to air support," said John Nagl, one of the authors of the Army's counterinsurgency doctrine and president of the Center for a New American Security, a defense think tank.
has to be one of the less intelligent comments I've read in a few days. Surely he was misquoted...