Nancy Youssef March 31, 2016
There are only 5,000
U.S. troops in Iraq—about what a colonel usually commands. But for this
ISIS war, as many as 21 generals have been deployed. Why?
In
the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State, the U.S. military is
notably short on soldiers, but apparently not on generals.
There
are at least 12 U.S. generals in Iraq, a stunningly high number for a
war that, if you believe the White House talking points, doesn’t involve American troops in combat.
And that number is, if anything, a conservative estimate, not taking
into account the flag officers running the U.S. air war, the admirals
helping wage the war from the sea, or their superiors back at the
Pentagon.
At
U.S. headquarters inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, even majors and
colonels frequently find themselves saluting superiors at a pace that
outranks the Pentagon and certainly any normal military installation.
With about 5,000 troops deployed to Iraq and Syria ISIS war, that means
there’s a general for every 416 troops, give or take. To compare, there
are some captains in the U.S. Army in charge of that many people.
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