So President Obama has bitten the bullet – and General McChrystal had to go for his insolence and dysfunctional personal command, and insubordination.
However poorly Colonel Tunnell led the Fifth Brigade, however dysfunctional its command climate might have been as a result, and however vocally he prioritized killing over counterinsurgency, there can be "no causal relation," according to Twitty, between these failures and faults and anything an individual soldier might or might not have done.
Today the party is more dysfunctional and commands less authority and support than ever before, and it shouldn't come as a surprise when it loses, even in a free and fair election.
The sociologist, Stjepan Mestrovic, said the documents portrayed a "dysfunctional" brigade and command structure that "created an environment that led to these crimes".
One emerged from a modest Long Island upbringing to become a billionaire investor, the other from a dysfunctional Mafia family to command a New Jersey-based organized crime syndicate.
General Abizaid, a former commander of American forces in the Middle East, concluded that the mortuary's leadership at the time was a "dysfunctional, isolated chain of command".
Why was Hargrove available to assume command of this dysfunctional outfit?
It's a debacle, and strong evidence for Stephen Holmes's argument that the Putin regime, far from a latter-day revanche of efficient Soviet central command, is a dysfunctional and disintegrating mess.As for China, the vote is yet another in a series of recent strikes against the notion that Chinese "soft power" was poised to vanquish American hard power in the developing world.
The Ethiopians, who have repeatedly invaded their dysfunctional neighbour, officially came under the international command this month.
If anything, Bragg's experience illustrates the dysfunctional internal strife that at times plagued the Confederate command system.
