I was reading through
the transcript of an interview (respectfully) with the US four-star general (ret) Joseph P. Hoar, when I noticed this thing of mention:
I think there was a basic flaw in the way we did business in Desert Storm, Desert Shield. I never once, in all the conversations that took place between August and February, heard a discussion about war termination. What were the terms of ending the war? What kind of requirements were we going to impose on the Iraqis after we had thrown them out of Kuwait? Because you remember, the military mission was beautifully defined: Liberate Kuwait. That doesn't give you either peace or stability; it just gives you a liberated Kuwait. And I guess I'm as guilty as everybody else. I might have raised my hand in a meeting and said, "What are we going to do after we throw them out?" I never heard anybody talk about this.
Now, doesn't that sound familiar?
Our Pentagon is learning how much?
The full interview is there.
In the text/more: Ref to the documentary that Frontline made the interview about.
Rumsfeld's War - (also) pertaining about the tip-top of the Pentagon, and (presumably) the interface of the Pentagon with the presidency.
The documentary is available online
Summary of documentary, meaningfully excerpted:
In "Rumsfeld's War," FRONTLINE and The Washington Post join forces for the first time to investigate Donald Rumsfeld's contentious battle with the Pentagon bureaucracy to assert civilian control of the military and remake the way America fights.
This report traces Donald Rumsfeld's career from his time as an adviser to President Nixon to his rise as the oft-seen and well-known face of the George W. Bush administration during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In interviews with key administration officials, military leaders, and reporters from The Washington Post, the documentary examines how a secretary of defense bent on reform became a secretary of war accused of ignoring the advice of his generals.
"Don't let me make it too easy on yeh."
The interviews, made from/of/with the documentary may be particularly and furthemore telling, informative, explanatory, likewise, meaningful.
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