Tag: command structure

WTF? The Marine officer who commanded the battalion involved in the Haditha killings last November did not consider the deaths of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, unusual and did not initiate an inquiry, according to a sworn statement he gave to military investigators in March. “I thought it was very sad, very […]

Now that Michael Brown has resigned as head of FEMA, more questions must be asked about the failures of the Katrina response. Was the failures caused by the former FEMA head or were they just compounded by other failures? Is Michael Brown becoming a fall guy for higher ups in the Department of Homeland Security? […]