![]() ![]() In either case, they failed this country,” Jacobs says. ![]() “And if they thought the plan was a good one, then they were fools. Richard Myers thought the Pentagon plan was “unworthy,” he writes, they owed it to their uniforms, the nation and the troops to speak out. Tommy Franks, the Iraq force commander, or Chief of Staff Gen. ![]() In criticizing civilian leaders for disastrous decisions, ignoring the advice of senior military officers, Jacobs condemns certain of those officers for failing to raise objections when they should. Eric Shinseki, was right to tell Congress in 2003 that the Iraq operation would require hundreds of thousands more troops than the Pentagon had planned, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was wrong to “flippantly dismiss” Shinseki’s estimate as being “far from the mark.” He writes that the Army chief of staff, Gen. ![]()
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