What I liked was this line from Greg's story:
"...Many young officers complain that the Army, which is desperately short of captains, treats them like interchangeable cogs. "As long as I don't get a DUI or fornicate on my boss's desk, I will be promoted with my peers," Col. Burton's memo quotes one officer as saying."
I sent that to my two LTCs and told them I was always looking for new bullet comments to put on their OERs and I thought I'd borrow the ones from the unnamed captain.
I was also struck by Greg's use of Charlie Dunlap. Dunlap submitted a version of that essay to the Strategic Studies Institute to publish but I personally thought that it totally missed the point of counterinsurgency. It was one more attempt to extrapolate the "Afghanistan" model of warfighting to other types of conflict.
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