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...marks something of a change for the modern armed forces. There is a military maxim that a commander is responsible for everything his or her subordinates do, or fail to do. But this has been largely an empty cliché in the post-9/11 era. As Army Lieut. Colonel Paul Yingling noted in a 2007 article in the Armed Forces Journal, "A general who presides over a massive human rights scandal or a substantial deterioration in security ought to be retired at a lower rank ... As matters stand now, a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than...
...from the beginning of the deployment, Green frequently and loudly declared his desire to kill Iraqi civilians, something he did not even attempt to hide from superiors. In late December 2005, for example, Green had a one-on-one meeting about his mental state with the brigade's commander, Colonel Todd Ebel. A colonel personally counseling a private is, it is worth noting, an exceedingly unusual event. During their talk, Green wanted to know, "Why can't we just shoot them all?" A few days before that, Green had met with Lieut. Colonel Karen Marrs, a psychiatric nurse practitioner...
...investigation following the Fort Hood shootings is a step in the right direction: the intention, plainly, is to give the concept of command accountability some teeth. Five to eight Army officers, some as highly ranked as colonel, are expected to face disciplinary action for mishandling the threat posed by Hasan, according to the Los Angeles Times...
There was no such study done in the aftermath of Green's crimes, just a routine Army investigation known as an AR 15-6, which was completed by a single lieutenant colonel in five days. Nor, for that matter, was anything other than a 15-6 ordered after Sergeant John Russell killed five fellow soldiers at a combat-stress center on an Army base in Baghdad in May 2009. Inevitably, this raises questions of whether a double standard is at play. Is the Army serious about accountability only when a soldier murders other soldiers on U.S. soil and the shooter...
...Middle East," has said he intends to spend a lot of that money overhauling his country's creaking infrastructure, which was barely updated through more than two decades of international embargoes. (U.S. sanctions were lifted in 2004 following Libya's abandonment of its nuclear weapons program.) (See pictures of Colonel Gaddafi...