General Failure
To a shocking degree, the Army’s leadership ranks have become populated by mediocre officers, placed in positions where they are likely to fail. Success goes unrewarded, and everything but the […]
Tag Archives: iraq
If you shoot your own guys, stick around afterwards. (But not in the Guard.)
From the Army Times, in October of 2011: A new investigation into the 2008 friendly fire death of Pfc. David Sharrett II in Iraq blasts the platoon leader who shot […]
“It was the best money I ever spent”
While doing stability operations in the Shiite-heavy south immediately following Saddam’s fall, Mattis was confronted with fiery Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s rapid trajectory toward insurgency kingpin. One day when al-Sadr […]
“Kurdistan’s Oil Policy And Iraq’s Disputed Territories”
from Musings on Iraq. Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been following its own independent oil policy. Part of that has included […]
