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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]