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...widely respected, but within military circles, his selection is controversial. The top Central Command job has always gone to an Army or Marine general for the simple reason that their ground forces would typically bear the brunt of any war in the theater. A bombadier-navigator in Vietnam, Fallon, 62, has no operational experience commanding ground troops or battling the kind of insurgency that grips Iraq or is growing in Afghanistan. "To put in a naval aviator without any command combat experience is like putting a baseball coach in to run the offense in the Super Bowl," grumbles a retired...
...dollars over the next four decades.Bilmes said the problem can be explained statistically. While the United States recently counted its 3000th fatality in the war on terror, nearly 16 times that many have suffered non-mortal wounds. By contrast, the ratio of those wounded to those killed during the Vietnam War was 2.6:1, and the two World Wars saw less than two men wounded for every fatality. The statistical swing, according to Bilmes, can be attributed to modern medical procedures and improved protective equipment. But although the numbers spell progress in one sense—the prevention of deaths...
...anthropology as an undergraduate at Cambridge’s Newham College during the late ’60s. It was there that she participated in her most memorable form of protest, when in 1967 she jumped on Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s car to demonstrate against the Vietnam War, as she recounted to The Daily Telegraph...
When you announced that NBC was going to describe the Iraq conflict as a civil war, some critics jokingly called it your Cronkite moment [referring to Walter Cronkite's 1968 on-air declaration that the Vietnam War was unwinnable]. Does it bother you that you're not always taken seriously...
Even more problematic is the report’s support for an arbitrary deadline of early 2008 for an American military withdrawal. In response, Senator John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), a revered Vietnam veteran and presidential candidate for 2008, called this deadline “a recipe that will lead to…our defeat.” Announcing a set deadline is tantamount to having a parent announce to their teenage child that they will leave the house for the weekend…party, anyone? It would only invigorate America’s enemies around the globe, since they...