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Op-Ed Contributor – Lose a General, Win a War – NYTimes.com
By Paul | June 24, 2010
Anyone who has served knew the President could not keep the leadership in place as it was. The military is unforgiving of mistakes but lives are at stake; it must be.
“In the longer term, the Army has to return to its tradition of getting rid of leaders who are failing. The Navy has shown more fortitude; in the first two months of this year alone it fired six commanders of ships and installations. On Tuesday, it fired the skipper of the frigate John L. Hall, two months after it collided with a pier at a Black Sea port in Georgia. The Navy stated simply, as it usually does in such cases, that the officer’s superior had lost confidence in him. That is all that is needed.
The Marine Corps has also largely kept the tradition of relieving officers — most notably during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 when its top ground officer, Maj. Gen. James Mattis, fired the commander of the First Marine Regiment. “
Op-Ed Contributor – Lose a General, Win a War – NYTimes.com.
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