Mistakes were made Mistakes were inspired
In addition to drastic cuts in funding, troop levels, and experienced leaders, the use of our armed forces as social experiments and “toys” for incompetent progressives (insert Ray Mabus, Ashton Carter, et al), politically inspired “rules of engagement” not only make our military ineffective and gravely endangered, they make our elite fighting forces a laughing stock among our enemies and a source of great concern to our allies.
From Rowan Scarborough – The Washington Times
Green Beret blasts Afghanistan command over ‘moral cowardice,’ ‘profound lack of strategy’
A combat-hardened Green Beret has unleashed a barrage of indictments against the command in Afghanistan and policymakers in Washington, saying the 14-year-old war effort suffers from a “profound lack of strategy” and that special operations overseers show “moral cowardice.”
“The enemy operates with impunity throughout the country due to our relentless commitment to avoid principled strategy and decision-making processes,” the Special Forces soldier says in a sworn statement he headed, “Profound Lack of Strategy.” (snip)
He filed his statement in the fall investigation into the mistaken U.S. airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, north of Kabul. A relatively small invasion force of Taliban took control of the city. It was up to this soldier’s Operational Detachment Alpha to organize an Afghan force to infiltrate the city and take back buildings. All names and ranks are redacted in the investigative report.
A special operations AC-130U “Spooky” gunship opened a 30-minute volley of gun and cannon fire, killing 42 staff and patients. The crew received the order to fire from a Green Beret officer on the ground and his Joint Terminal Attack Controller.
“It’s not a strategy, and in fact it’s a recipe for disaster in that kinetic of an environment. How have we, as a force, as a group of officers, become so lost from the good lessons that our mentors taught us? I will tell you how. It is a decrepit state that grows out of the expansion of moral cowardice, careerism and compromise devoid of principle, exchanged for cheap personal gain. (snip)
They exhibited an “ineffective, hands-off approach of leaders and staff throughout the operations process, as personnel did not properly assess the mission.”
They “permitted an inexperienced flight crew with marginal training performance to support a highly delicate ODA/Afghan partner force mission.”
More reading about the destined-to-tragedy incident caused by lack of experience and the phone-it-in military under Obama:
U.S. airstrike on Afghan hospital the culmination of a tragedy of errors
DLH
* always a suspect superlative when it comes to the Obamanation
