AEI’s Thomas Donnelly at Small Wars Journal with yet another reason why Bacevich doesn’t make any sense. His Atlantic article positing a policy disconnect, advocating we stop fighting the current war and start massing large tank formations, suffers from a policy disconnect. It neglects to mention that the Pentagon’s civilian leadership, under domestic political pressure, belatedly pushed the counterinsurgency policy change after the brass and the commander-in-chief had dropped that ball, and however unsatisfying any of that may be, it is in fact a legitimate policy path. SWJ excerpt: Bacevich concludes with what he rightly describes as “the biggest question of all.” That is, in the American democracy, do the essential choices about war rest with soldiers or civilians? The presumption he makes, however, that the decision to...
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