Posted on 09/03/2015 12:23:57 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
McChrystal and a few other key figures converted JSOC from a Ferrari in the garage to the long-haul truck of the war on terror.
The targeting of low-level insurgents continued when JSOC shifted resources from Iraq to Afghanistan in 2009. But the enemy’s continual replacement of losses with recruits from Pakistan and unpacified eastern Afghanistan eventually eroded JSOC’s morale. One Ranger officer tells Mr. Naylor that, by 2011, morale had sunk to the point that he had to yell at his noncommissioned officers just to go out on operations.
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As usual google can get you over the paywall.
“As usual google can get you over the paywall.”
Hate to say it, but I can’t figure that one out. Have a link?
Googling a key phrase, under google news will ususlly get you in.
Being a paid subscriber, the WSJ lets me in; so a bit difficult for me to test a procedure.
Also try other search engines.
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