Military Incompetence

A military intelligence expert makes a persuasive case for leadership reform with in-depth analysis of operations and how they went wrong. The history of American military operations in the post-Vietnam era has been marked by failure and near-disaster. Since 1970, American forces have been committed in five operations—in Sontay to rescue prisoners, in Cambodia on behalf of the crew of the SS Mayaguez , in Iran to rescue the American hostages, in Beirut, and in Grenada. In each case they have fai