Quote Originally Posted by Rob Thornton View Post
Interesting article in the WSJ today "Critiques of Iraq War reveal Rift among Army Officers" - converges multiple SWC topics into one article, but this seemed the best one to post it to.


You can also get to it in today's E-bird.

Also ref. in the same article are:

The creation of an Army Advisory Corps

Comments from USAF MG Dunlap

Future of COIN and Nation Building Like missions as core competencies

Civil Military Relations

Lots of other good stuff

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.