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A Failure in Generalship, by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling. Yingling basically says that Generals in today's Army have no moral courage. He is basically telling his bosses (who decide how long his career lasts) that they, as a class, are failures. It ends with the understatement of the year:

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