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Originally Posted by Razor
To add to RL's post above, I've been doing catch-up reading of US News & World Reports, and there was a short Q&A piece with Schroen that caught my attention.
Q: Was America prepared for the war on terrorism?
A: The CIA was ready. We knew what to do. The U.S. military, and I'm not denigrating their activities on the ground, but they were not ready. The Pentagon did nto have a plan on how to go into Afghanistan and fight the kind of war it was going to take--a special operations war to defeat the Taliban.
Hmmm, seems from my outsider point of view that we did pretty damned well 'without a plan to fight a special operations war'.
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In the book, he criticizes DOD's alleged refusal to provide an SOF liaison guy for the team he brought in, alleged delays in sending in ODAs despite his requests, and alleged refusal to target Taliban front lines early on. There is a page I marked for the purpose of typing a chunk of it into this thread, but I don't have the book at the office. Will try to remember later.
I recall that he speculated that interservice rivalries played a role in the conduct he alleges to have taken place.