I'm waiting for the first review to point out that the dustjacket blurbs are the high point of the book.Originally Posted by Tom Odom
I'm waiting for the first review to point out that the dustjacket blurbs are the high point of the book.
I was beginning to wonder....
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
Should be an interesting read. Reminds me of a direct fire plan for a company defense with multiple sectors of blame, redundant fall back positions, and a reserve pot of blame to dole out as gaps appear in the main defensive arguments. As I said on the Feith thread, this period is resulting in a truly remarkable run of accounts that all have at their core a defense for incompetence based on ignorance. They did no wrong because they did not know."This left General Sanchez in charge of operations in Iraq with a staff that had been focused at the operational and tactical level, but was not trained to operate at the strategic/operational level." He went on to write that neither he nor anyone higher in the Administration knew these orders had been issued, and that he was dumbfounded when he learned that Gen. McKiernan was out of the country and in Kuwait, and that the forces would be drawn down to a level of about 30,000 by September. "I did not know that Sanchez was in charge," he wrote.
Tom
Boy, you got that right...
Unfortunately, it seems to be true -- incompetence due to ignorance, I mean -- what's wrong with that picture???
Interlocking fields of ignorance?
Last edited by Shek; 05-06-2008 at 08:18 PM.
Deadly crossfire of incompetence in a zone beaten with stupidity
...a truly remarkable run of accounts that all have at their core a defense for incompetence based on ignorance. They did no wrong because they did not know.
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Interlocking fields of ignorance?[RANT]General officers are not allowed to say it is above their paygrade. 'Ignorance' in a general officer is a failure to complete adequate reconnaisance, and as such is negligence bordering on the criminal.[/RANT]Deadly crossfire of incompetence in a zone beaten with stupidity
Sorry about that, had to be said.
You mean, we wuz trained???"This left General Sanchez in charge of operations in Iraq with a staff that had been focused at the operational and tactical level, but was not trained to operate at the strategic/operational level."
News to me....
Is it up on Amazon yet for our own peer review ?
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