Retired Major General Robert H. Scales asserts in The Washington Post that "military professionals...are embarrassed to be associated with the amateurism of the Obama administration’s attempts to craft a plan that makes strategic sense... None of the White House staff has any experience in war or understands it...This path to war violates every principle of war, including the element of surprise, achieving mass and having a clearly defined and obtainable objective." Read it all [BJS]