After McChrystal: US military chafes under civilian leadership
By H. D. S. Greenway | Thursday, June 24, 2010 | The Boston Globe
“…Generals are trained and motivated to win wars, while presidents, such as Truman and Obama, often want to keep them limited. William Westmoreland asked for a couple of hundred thousand more troops to surge in Vietnam, but his civilian bosses wanted to wind the war down…..”…BS
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