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Crisis of Command

How We Lost Trust and Confidence in America's Generals and Politicians

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Crisis of Command

By: Stuart Scheller
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Combat-decorated Marine officer Stuart Scheller speaks out against the debacle of the Afghan pullout as the culmination of a decades-long and still-ongoing betrayal of military members by top leadership, from generals to the commander in chief, comes to light.

Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller was the perfect Marine. Battle tested. A leader. Decorated for valor. Yet when the United States acted like the Keystone Cops in a panicked haphazard exit from Afghanistan for political reasons, Scheller spoke out, and the generals lashed out. In fact, they jailed him to keep him quiet, claiming he lost the "trust and confidence" bestowed upon him by the Marines—when the faith and trust is exactly what our generals and even our commander-in-chief betrayed by exercising such reckless and derelict policies. Now Scheller is free from the shackles of the Marine Corps and can speak his mind. And in Crisis of Command, that he does. He holds our generals' feet to the fire. The same generals who play frivolously with the lives of our service men and women for political gain. The same generals who lied to political leaders to further their own agendas and careers. Stuart Scheller is here to say that the buck stops here. Accountability starts now. It's time to demand accountability and stand up for our military. In this book, Stuart Scheller shows us how.

©2022 Stuart Scheller (P)2022 Kalorama
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The story is interesting and well read, but with an astonishing lack of insight.

Certainly American war fighting has been strewn with errors of strategy as well as over reliance on technology and bureaucracy to overwhelm enemies. Unsuccessfully though as repeated mistakes from Vietnam to Afghanistan prove. Yes, individual battles were won, but the overall campaigns were lost, so there is validity in some of his criticisms.

There is though an increasing lack of insight developing in the story. The failures of the US military and USMC in general were not down to DEI, political correctness or lack of will to do violence, they were down to a military that was incapable of understanding why they were hated in these wars of occupation.

The author also claims to be a US patriot, but supports insurrection and is worryingly equivocal about attacks on democratic institutions such as the attempted coup of 6th January 2021. Of course he is not the only one deranged enough to do so, and at least has the excuse of PTSD.

America is heading to a very dark place, and this book gives some insight to why.

Falling down the rabbit hole

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Well done Sir. Thought provoking and right from the heart. God bless you and your family. Best wishes for your next chapter.

Worth it!

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