Very hard hitting article. It is wrong to throw Vic under the bus in this article as a central focus when a command is the one implementing the fight and to have it read like he is a focus of the wrongs that occurred. Sorry All - I disagree on that and the very aspects of what it is taking to do contracts. We had a POTUS who had no plan. We put all the eggs in the basket of CENTCOM for a global insurgency. We cut our manpower and staffs and hollowed out our abilities and added jobs to staff officers for all the people they no longer had. The strategic question this article does not explain "How do you fight an ideology when you are not the main enemy - nor the one that IS is reacting too?"