UK Officer Assails U.S. Iraq Tactics
The brigadier general calls the U.S. military "weighed down by bureaucracy, a stiflingly hierarchical outlook" and a "predisposition to offensive operations." | storyBBC: A senior British Army officer has sparked indignation in the US with a scathing article criticising the US Army’s performance in Iraq.
Brigadier Nigel Aylwin-Foster said US tactics early in the occupation had alienated Iraqis and exacerbated problems for the coalition. | story
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