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Iraq |
Army Promotions (Including H.R. McMaster) |
2008-05-16 |
Some would say this is long overdue. |
Posted by:charger |
#7 IIRC, UPI.com > US ARMY's NEW CROP OF GENERALS POISED/SCHOOLED FOR [Global] COUNTER-INSURGENCIES. The "1000-Flag/Nation" GLOBAL ARMORED/AIR-GROUND TASK FORCE, for sectarian "police actions" + humanitarian assistance ala US Navy - GLOBAL-PROMPT STRIKE GOES GLOBAL-PROMPT RELIEF/AID, BATTLESPACE = AID/HUMANSPACE??? |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-16 21:31 |
#6 bout time for some generals maybes with balls with balls. The cold war is over and the new style of fighting has too come from the top |
Posted by: sinse 2008-05-16 19:48 |
#5 And yes, I'd follow McMaster into battle, any time, anywhere. I've already done it once. |
Posted by: OldSpook 2008-05-16 16:23 |
#4 In an article published this year on the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan, McMaster challenged what he called the military's preoccupation in the 1990s with technology, to the neglect of the political and cultural dimensions of war. Military leaders must end the "self-delusion" that high-tech weapons and a "minimalist" commitment of forces can solve conflicts, he wrote. |
Posted by: OldSpook 2008-05-16 16:21 |
#3 If Col McMaster pins on his star, then they have thier heads outof their asses - the guy was passed over twice for bucking the pentagon and coming up with the "feet on the street" tactics that Petraeus uses. |
Posted by: OldSpook 2008-05-16 16:20 |
#2 Not so fast:Several of the colonels widely expected to appear on the resulting promotion list, which has not yet been released, are considered unconventional thinkers who were effective in the Iraq campaign, in many cases because they embraced a counterinsurgency doctrine that Petraeus helped craft, the officials said. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-16 15:41 |
#1 What's long overdue is a cultural change to the peacetime business as usual promotion system embodied in the bureaucracy and the implementation of a battlefield determinate on promotions. An Army exists to fight. You pick fighters not managers when the environment allows you to see the difference. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-05-16 15:35 |