From Strategy Page come news of a the Department of Defense website, For the Record, where you can read letters the Pentagon has sent to mainstream press outlets. The letters helpfully point out those instances where the press didn't get their stories quite right, and they ask that the stories corrected.
Generals involved in troop-level decisions have been very clear on this matter, making numerous statements that are not new—or difficult—to find, such as extensive commentary in General Franks’s book, American Soldier. The implication is that the New York Times either believes these generals are not being truthful, or that they are too intimidated to tell the truth. The Pentagon would vigorously dispute both characterizations.
Read what generals themselves have to say about the subject, in a Pentagon letter to the editor.
UPDATE: The New York Times has declined the Pentagon’s request to correct its editorial.
No luck.
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