The Niger Ambush and Leadership Accountability | Small Wars Journal

Good read by BG Bolduc. It throws a spotlight on to a few things not discussed too often. For my part - the training of Senior level SOF has degraded since SOCJFCOM went away in that Obama era money saving action. No one there these days to provide to Senior leaders that same type of training and expertise. No one..
"There is a big lesson here for the Special Operations community: it needs to pull up its sleeves and become better at managing and preparing its senior leaders. The organizational nepotism, Joint Special Operations Command-centric (JSOC) advocacy-based go along to move along approach, and the Game of Thrones leadership selection process is hurting the SOF enterprise. This, in part, is responsible for putting unprepared SOF service members in harm’s way without proper leadership and resources. In the end, someone had to take the fall, so they served up General Hicks, blamed a previous commander, and questioned the professionalism of the AFRICOM commander. SOCOM’s approach served as an optic to “We took action against a GO” deflecting the responsibility from higher GO and civilian leadership levels."