Division widening in US military

An army officer has published a report blaming US generals for botching the Iraq war and misleading the US congress about the situation there.

"America's generals have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq. The intellectual and moral failures . . . constitute a crisis in American generals, “stated Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, Iraq veteran and deputy commander of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.

His article, “General Failure”, featured in the US publication Armed Forces Journal, reflects conflicts of interest and divisions within the US military across the board.

This is the first time that charges of this magnitude have been made public by a US officer.
Most significant is his criticism aimed towards Generals and Lieutenants, charging the top brass of being incompetent in their leadership and executing war strategies.

"After going into Iraq with too few troops and no coherent plan for postwar stabilization, America's general officer corps did not accurately portray the intensity of the insurgency to the American public," he writes.

"For reasons that are not yet clear, America's general officer corps underestimated the strength of the enemy, overestimated the capabilities of Iraq's government and security forces and failed to provide Congress with an accurate assessment of security conditions in Iraq."
Lt. Yingling did not get permission to publish this article, though he had made his superiors aware of it.

The article read by about 30 of his peers at the level of lieutenant colonel and below, has received unanimous approval.

His article is available at www.armedforcesjournal.com

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Source: Press TV.