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As matters stand now, a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

This is Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, an active-duty Army officer, an Iraq veteran who is deputy commander of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, in an article titled “General Failure” to be published today in the Armed Forces Journal. Full text available here.

WaPo describes the article as “a blistering attack on U.S. generals, saying they have botched the war in Iraq and misled Congress about the situation there”.