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Some time ago I advised folks not to focus on whether Jamil Hussein was actually an Iraqi police officer and instead concentrate on the accuracy of his claims. I'll now suggest avoiding the argument as to whether "Scott Thomas" is or isn't a soldier. The exhumation of a graveyard has already been corroborated, that alone leads me to believe Thomas is indeed a soldier here.
Rowan Scarborough gives us another data point to the fact that the National Security Structure that is supposed to tie the Civilian and Military parts together is simply broke. If it did work – this wouldn’t need to happen.
More and more officials began attending the sessions. Even Vice President Dick Cheney came. "We took the results of our planning session immediately to people in the administration," said AEI analyst Thomas Donnelly, a surge planner. "It became sort of a magnet for movers and shakers in the White House." Donnelly said the AEI approach won out over plans from the Pentagon and U.S. Central Command. The two Army generals then in charge of Iraq had opposed a troop increase.People vote with their feet. More of the same is rarely a plan. Even if this outline is 75% correct - what does it say about the performance of the Senior Uniformed Leadership - and the Military wing of the National Security Structure?
Keane already had done some ground work. He won a private meeting with then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in September. The retired four-star bluntly told him that he would lose the war unless he changed tactics.Time to put the talk of adopting "Business Best Practices" to work and benchmark other more successful Military structures. Why wasn't the military able to give the civilians what they needed - and therefor they had to go shopping?
Methinks the last few years have shown us that there is a good chance the Goldwater-Nichols/JCS/Combatant Commander model we are using just may not be what a Global Empire should use. (NB: yes, I used the "E" word - that is the way we function; in a Post-Modern way. I'll take a better, more accurate phrase if you can create one in 4 or fewer syllables).
There are other models out there that might better optimize how the JCS and Combatant Commanders serve the nation. Are we looking?
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