Thanks for the reading suggestions
@ Ganulv, Steve Blair and others. I'll try and check them out. That is exactly what I wanted.
Carl - A Col. Tunnell's article is making its way across the web, on Michael Yon's website and on zenpundit's. There are people who spoke up behind scenes, it appears. That letter won't make you entirely happy though, because he appears skeptical of the way we did things with our ISAF Karzai Pakistan NATO everyone else alliance pop-COIN-iess (er, not comments on policy, but on the way this affects day to day tactics. I think. My lack of military knowledge hurts me in interpreting things).
No one is really in charge, it seems from my outsider viewpoint.
From my vantage point, I can't know what happened behind closed doors, who stood up for what, who protested, and how it went down.
The better part of valor for me may be to do just what I said: wait for declassified materials and proper study at a distance.
Not much help for today's issues but I won't be a help. "Stay out of it mostly" is not a message that resonates much outside places like this.
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