Col. Davis Leaked Report - The Generals Lied.

frodo · Feb 11, 2012

http://www1.rollingstone.com/extras/RS_REPORT.pdf

Americans have been comprehensively lied to by the Generals who run the defence forces - including Petreaus it seems.

Translation: The military screwed America. Shades of Vietnam.

Senior ranking US military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the US
Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the
truth has become unrecognizable. This deception has damaged Americas credibility among
both our allies and enemies, severely limiting our ability to reach a political solution to the war in
Afghanistan. It has likely cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars Congress
might not otherwise have appropriated had it known the truth, and our senior leaders behavior
has almost certainly extended the duration of this war. The single greatest penalty our Nation
has suffered, however, has been that we have lost the blood, limbs and lives of tens of thousands
of American Service Members with little to no gain to our country as a consequence of this
deception.

Introduction

These are surely serious charges and anyone who would make such claims had better have
considerable and substantive evidence to back it up. Regrettably, far too much evidence does
exist and I will here provide key elements of it. As I will explain in the following pages I have
personally observed or physically participated in programs for at least the last 15 years in which
the Armys senior leaders have either stretched the truth or knowingly deceived the US
Congress and American public. What I witnessed in my most recently concluded 12 month
deployment to Afghanistan has seen that deception reach an intolerable low.

I will provide a
very brief summary of the open source information that would allow any American citizen to
verify these claims. But if the public had access to these classified reports they would see the
dramatic gulf between what is often said in public by our senior leaders and what is actually true
behind the scenes. It would be illegal for me to discuss, use, or cite classified material in an open
venue and thus I will not do so; I am no WikiLeaks guy Part II.

Fortunately, there is a provision that allows me to legally submit a classified report to Members
of Congress. In conjunction with this public study I have also submitted classified reports to a
number of US Representatives and Senators, both Democrats and Republicans. As the duly
elected representatives of our people, they are authorized to see the classified data and
empowered to do something about it. For the sake of so many who have paid with their blood
and the sake of those Service Members who have not yet had to pay that price it is my sincere
hope that Congress acts to resolve these issues expeditiously.

In the first section below I will demonstrate how numerous military senior leaders have used
omission and outright deception in order to prevent the American public from knowing the truth
in regards to the genuine conditions on the ground in Afghanistan. I will explain that there has
been a significant volume of information available from numerous and reputable open sources
that should have been effective in communicating to the American public the truth of the situation. Owing to numerous factors (the key of which are discussed in detail in subsequent
sections of the report), however, the powerful and pervasive personalities of several US general
officers have been surprisingly effective at convincing even highly educated Americans to
believe what the generals say and not what their eyes and evidence tell them.

In the second section I will help the reader gain a better understanding of how the situation
described in Section I came to be. For the most part restricting myself to discussing situations in
which I was physically a participant, I will first present a number of facts many of which will
be seen in public for the first time regarding how Army senior leaders have been deceiving the
US Congress and American people on some key modernization programs going back to the
1990s. In this section you will see how despite year after year of Government Accountability
Office (GAO) analysis done explicitly for the US Congress which showed major and repeating
failures in the Future Combat Systems (FCS), the Armys senior leaders instead told Members of
Congress and the US public in press releases that the opposite was true; because Americans have
trusted the Armys leaders more than any other in the country, they accepted the word of the
generals and ignored the GAO reports and the physical absence of successful products.

A second major sub-element to this section will be a demonstration also containing significant
new information that has never been seen by the American people revealing that what virtually
the entire country and even a great percentage of our uniformed Service Members believe about
how and why the Iraq surge of 2007 was successful, was in fact grossly inaccurate. The version
of events that depicted the lions share of the causality going to superior US generalship and the
adoption of the protect the population strategy was created and sustained by a number of key
senior US generals. When the full facts are examined, however, it becomes very clear that the
surge of troops in 2007 was instrumental at best and according to one senior ground commander
who led much of our fight in the Anbar province, 75% to 80% of the credit for the surges
success lies elsewhere.
The inaccurate assigning of the reason for the 2007 Iraq surges success has profound
implications for our current war in Afghanistan and doubly so for the surge forces ordered by the
President in late 2009. Had the President known the truth of what really happened in 2007 Iraq it
is a virtual certainty he would not have made the decision he did in November/December 2009.
In any case, the situation demonstrates a growing and expanding willingness on the part of our
countrys senior military leaders to use Information Operations even on domestic audiences to
manipulate the system in order to get what they want.

As the last section demonstrates, the senior military leaders have been remarkably successful in
achieving their desires; but as a result, our country has squandered almost a full decade in which
it might have made noteworthy advancements in its force structure, has continued pursuing a
military strategy that has proven to be an abysmal failure during a time when effective outcomes
might have been found, and worst of all, has cost the lives and limbs of tens of thousands of
American Service Members and reportedly deprived hundreds of thousands more of their
psychological and emotional well-being.
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AJ98 · Feb 11, 2012

Reading the document right now. Although it doesn't contain the evidence that our generals are lying to us. I guess the whistle blower is sending that evidence directly to Congress instead of becoming the next Bradly Manning. Either way, it should be interesting to see what follows if any of this is true.

moon · Feb 11, 2012

AJ98 said: ↑

Reading the document right now. Although it doesn't contain the evidence that our generals are lying to us. I guess the whistle blower is sending that evidence directly to Congress instead of becoming the next Bradly Manning. Either way, it should be interesting to see what follows if any of this is true.
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Aw, it ain't as if the suits didn't learn anything from the Afghanistan debacle;

Congress Demands Drones Over America

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The following information was released by the Center for Democracy & Technology:

by Harley Geiger

February 9, 2012

Congress is demanding drones in the air over the United States - without considering the civil liberties issues. Within the span of three days last week, the House and then the Senate passed a law - H.R. 658 - requiring the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to speed up, within 90 days, its current licensing process for government use of drones domestically and to open the national airspace to drone aircraft for commercial and private use by October 2015. While the law requires the FAA to develop guidance on drone safety, the law says absolutely nothing about the privacy or transparency implications of filling the sky with flying robots.

http://www.aviationpros.com/news/10627258/congress-demands-drones-over-america
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AJ98 · Feb 11, 2012

I fail to see the connection you are making here moon.

moon · Feb 11, 2012

I'm pointing out that the military-industrial complex profits from US wars, win or lose. Lying Generals are unimportant in the greater scheme of ensuring the success of the investment ahead of the fortunes of the flag.

AJ98 · Feb 11, 2012

moon said: ↑

I'm pointing out that the military-industrial complex profits from US wars, win or lose. Lying Generals are unimportant in the greater scheme of ensuring the success of the investment ahead of the fortunes of the flag.
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I understand that US drones flying over American soil is a bit controversial. But I can certainly see how it would have many practical applications other than spying or bombing. I just don't see where the corruption is that you are pointing out. You only linked to a news article that toyed with what the possible consequences are of having drones in our airspace. You haven't really shown any evidence of wrong doing here. I think you are jumping the gun a bit.

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