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...smoke but fail to kill the insurgent. Meanwhile, the special forces alert the company by radio that three Taliban fighters are moving through the canyon so the soldiers should be ready to shoot. But the insurgents are beyond the reach of the .30-cal. machine gun. That night Lieut. Mark Stein sends out a patrol with night-vision goggles to explore the ridge where the lone Taliban fighter was seen. There's no trace...
...Lieut. General David McKiernan, head of the U.S. military's land component, is ordered to move his headquarters to Florida, removing from Iraq hundreds of intelligence officers. Some U.S. intelligence officials view the loss of these assets as the gravest error in the battle against the insurgency. General Ricardo Sanchez, who takes over, has to restart intelligence gathering essentially from scratch...
...rush to Baghdad, critics say, laid the groundwork for trouble to come. In one prewar briefing, for example, Lieut. General David McKiernan--who commanded the land component of the coalition forces--asked Franks what should be done if his troops found Iraqi arms caches on the way to Baghdad. "Just put a lock on 'em and go, Dave," Franks replied, according to a former U.S. Central Command (Centcom) officer. Of course, you couldn't simply put a lock on ammunition dumps that stretched for several square miles--dumps that would soon be stripped and provide a steady source of weaponry...
...Lieut. General Russel Honoré has long legs, and he uses them to full effect. A lean 6 ft. 2 in., Honoré strides across the deck of the U.S. warship Iwo Jima as aides rush to keep up. He strides into a room full of admirals and generals and barks out orders. ("I want you to go and get it done," he says, telling them he has no time for progress reports.) He strides down the streets of New Orleans to correct his soldiers' comportment; he strides down tarmacs to waiting helicopters. He strides away from the Governor of Louisiana...
...would it have mattered if the Corps had got all the money it asked for? Lieut. General Carl Strock, commander of the Corps, insists it would not have. The system might have been able to drain the floodwaters more quickly, but the big breach occurred in a levee that had recently been strengthened. "We were just caught by a storm of an intensity that exceeded the design of the project we have in place," Strock says. In other words, the levees worked just fine; it was the storm that screwed things up by being so powerful...