Florida173
SOF Support
I, for one, am absolutely shocked that senior officials would do something like this. It is unprecedented for people well removed from the ground to rework the intel coming off the battlefield in order to paint a rosy picture for the bosses. I mean, everyone just wants the truth, regardless of how that makes some high-ranking personnel look after they have contradictory statements. The facts have ALWAYS been what mattered most to the brass.
It's a policy and political thing.