Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
What I meant from "Came from the top" is that despite the Army trying to do what they know and are trained to do, the civilian leadership chose to ignore their best advice and decided that they already had their own answer. Good call on Pristina, I think I've heard similar before from a different angle, with the same assessment you arrived at. (What was he thinking?)
That’s my impression as well, that the senior USMC was told to STFU and do as ordered.
The most charitable thing history could look on the civilian leadership is if they really wanted to start an insurgency, and that the civilian leadership has some good evidence to back up this COA.
S/F, FOG