Small Wars Journal

No US Military Consensus on Syria

Thu, 09/12/2013 - 7:34pm

No Military Consensus on Syria by Michael O’Hanlon, Washington Post.

Retired Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales, in his Sept. 6 commentary, “A war the Pentagon doesn’t want” [Washington Forum], makes some valid points about the challenges the Obama administration has encountered -o and, at times, created - in its approach to Syria. He may be right that this is a war that most officers in the military, like most Americans, don’t want. But greater scrutiny should be given to his suggestion of a widespread consensus within military ranks that the president’s handling of this crisis has been incompetent...

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