Debating the Good Fight

Philip Carter comments on an article in the WSJ which details divisions in the military over how we fight future and present wars:

Jaffe goes on to write about the specific encounters which have
taken place in the context of this larger battle over the Army's future. He
writes how Lt. Col. John Nagl, one of the Army's leading soldier-scholars, and
the commander of the battalion at Fort Riley charged with training tomorrow's
advisers, has proposed a new "adviser corps" for the U.S. military to work with
foreign militaries in the future. That proposal has been soundly rejected by the
powers that be, who have chosen instead to put their eggs in the conventional
warfare basket.

The senior leadership in the Pentagon fought a different type of war against the Soviets than our troops are fighting now. They should listen to the voices of experience: the Lts., Captains, and Sergeants who paid for their peculiar knowledge in blood in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Related:

Critiques of Iraq War Reveal Rifts Among Army Officers.

A failure in generalship.