Quote Originally Posted by MikeF View Post
Where did we fail?
We don't do this right:
..."Train the squad leaders — then trust them’ "...
We can't do the second part because we don 't do the first part as well as we could or should. Platoon Leaders don't fare much better. We also do not cull and remove the dregs of leaders as well as we should...

Can't trust folks in combat unless you're reasonably sure they'll try to do the right thing...