Gen. Milley Says ‘There Was Nothing That I or Anyone Else Saw’ in Intel Indicating Afghanistan Would Collapse in 11 Days [More]And then there's this idiot...
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America's Berlin Wall.
ReplyDeleteYou, too, can have a high-paying job in American Intelligence! No talent required!
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 2:30 PM DB wrote:
ReplyDelete"Brief interview with an officer who worked on a staff in Afghanistan. Lying/fabrication of stats is endemic to the culture of the military, partly because the stakes are so low, personally/professionally, for the people who do it. Just think about someone like General McChrystal who used a leak campaign to pressure the Obama admin to raise the troop levels in Afghanistan even though the political will to stay was clearly waning. McChrystal is a professor at Yale and has his own consulting firm that teaches "leadership" from which I'm sure he's making a ton of money from. There will never be any accountability for anyone who was involved in either of these wars."
https://mtracey.substack.com/p/a-big-money-funneling-operation-afghanistan
On 8/18/2021 2:41 PM, a Vietnam Veteran replied:
Absolutely true. "Body Count" was the first thing the command structure inquired about after a gunfight when I was in South Viet Nam. Kill 2 and report it and the company commander would report 10 and the battallion commander would report it was a platoon. That was their report card for promotion."
My 2 cents: The police trainee count corruption noted in the article reminds me of the hot-meal-welfare head count corruption DB told me about in the late 1970s. He was tasked by a congressman to spot-check audit the programs. He would show up unannounced to a contractor claiming to provide an average of say 100 meals, and there would only be a few people, often none. The contractors complained to their whores in congress, so he was required to give 24 hours notice before a "spot-check", giving the contractor time to round up bodies. Even then, the head count might be only 20. The contractors complained again, and the program was canceled.
-Laocoön
It started as far back as 1971. I was introduced yo the concept of "pencil whipping" with 30 days of coming on to active duty.
ReplyDeleteNo JAG personnel took a physical fitness exam in my 4 years but our office (not the HQ Company ordely room) typed all the Article 15 paperwork needed.
It always starts with a small request - "Sign here, Lieutenant"