Criticism of the Army is not uncommon. But Lieutenant Colonel Paul L. Savage (U.S. Army, Retired) and Major Richard A. Gabriel (U.S. Army Reserve) have written the most damning indictment of the United States Army officer corps—the corps in which I have spent most of my adult life— that I have ever read, or heard, or been told about. “It is our contention,” the authors write in their preface, “that within the Army today there are . . . severe behavioral and ethical tendencies that threaten the ability of the organization to withstand even minimal combat stress. Further, we suggest that a critical factor contributing to the condition of the Army is the state of the officer corps.”
And almost everything they say is true.
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