The Pentagon goes soft on big-time military mistakes
Last Thursday, the Defense Department released a summary of its findings on the October jihadi ambush in Niger that killed four US Special Forces soldiers, blaming a series of “individual, organizational and institutional” blunders — not fingering a single senior officer.
As DOD noted, the troops fought bravely and “died with honor.” But they’d received neither proper training nor adequate equipment to capture a local ISIS bigwig — which was tossed on a force that just finished a routine mission after the assault force that was to take the lead got grounded by weather.
The report faulted two officers (including a captain wounded in the attack) for mischaracterizing the mission’s nature in planning documents, but hit no higher-ups for dumping the extra task on the unit. New mission protocols are said to be in place.
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