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Military Hates White House ‘Micromanagement’ of ISIS War
Daily Beast ^ | 31 Oct 14 | Josh Rogin and Eli Lake

Posted on 11/01/2014 7:36:15 AM PDT by LSUfan

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Military Upset with White House 'Micromanagement' of ISIS War
41 posted on 11/02/2014 5:57:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: LSUfan; Timber Rattler

Sadly nothing new here. Truman did this in the Korean War, and LBJ and his rat thugs did it during the Nam war as noted below:

Outspoken, revered Vietnam fighter pilot Jack Broughton dies at 89
LA Times, via Stars & Stripes ^ | Novembe 1, 2014 | Tony Perry
Posted on 11/2/2014, 3:14:47 AM by Timber Rattler

As a combat pilot, Air Force Col. Jack Broughton was celebrated for bravery and tactical brilliance during the Korean and Vietnam wars. He received promotions and important assignments and seemed headed to become a general.

But a high-profile court-martial during the Vietnam War for allegedly violating the rules of engagement that ruled certain targets off limits ended his career.

After leaving the Air Force, Broughton was free to speak out about what he saw as the incompetence of President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in micromanaging the war. Pilots couldn’t bomb an enemy outhouse without their approval, Broughton once complained.

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In a modern era where political and military objectives are intermixed, Broughton was “something of an anachronism. A swashbuckling skyjock of the old school, he wanted nothing more than to roll out his fighter jet every day and ‘go to work,’” David Gelman, who covered the Vietnam War for Newsday, wrote in his review of “Going Downtown.”

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In June 1967, as the war intensified, a pilot under Broughton’s command told him that he may have fired at a Soviet freighter in the North Vietnamese port of Cam Pha while attacking an anti-aircraft site. The Soviet Union complained bitterly to Washington.

To protect his pilots from criticism by civilian and military officials far removed from the realities of the war, Broughton ordered the destruction of the gun-camera film so that no evidence could exist.

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“It seemed to be that the whole world was out of focus,” Broughton later wrote. “Old friends were turning against us and common sense was not to be found.”
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42 posted on 11/02/2014 6:50:12 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Islam/ISIS = The Ebola of religious/political ideologies!)
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43 posted on 11/02/2014 7:48:12 AM PST by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: rdcbn

Yet McNamara publicly admitted that his actions/directives were responsible for a substantial number of the 50,000 American deaths incurred in Vietnam.


44 posted on 11/03/2014 6:00:12 AM PST by Herzo61
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

We went through this BS in Vietnam with the white house and state department interference. And it is probably the same in every war.


45 posted on 11/03/2014 11:20:58 AM PST by Americanexpat
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One significant difference is POTUS’s Loyalties are questionable, it’s not just political ramifications in play.


46 posted on 11/03/2014 11:32:47 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: upchuck

ValJar knows full well what she is doing. And the goal is not military victory. In fact she probably giggles at reports of dead servicemen.
Case in point, when Obama had to do that awful chore of a speech about the burnt Jordanian pilot, she is sitting behind with that sh!t eating grin.

Evil


47 posted on 02/11/2015 7:05:18 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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