A short time after that, he received a phone call from an Army lawyer representing one of the accused, who described near-continuous violence, chain-of-command failures and the breakdown of discipline in Bravo Company's theater of operations: "What that company is going through, it would turn your hair white," he said.
Her disaffected students mock her at every turn, while the school's administration—led by a Rivers Cuomo lookalike headmaster (Romain Duris)—conflates her lack of command with a failure to endorse its self-congratulatory liberal values.
"The failures of judgment, the miscalculations, the failures of command, the miscalculation about the numbers of troops needed to win the peace, the miscalculation about not having a plan to win the peace, the miscalculation of sending troops over there without adequate armor, with Humvees that aren't armored," Mr. Kerry clicked off his litany of complaints.
The documentary also delves into faulty intelligence and failures of command (as well as flashes of heroism); the cover-up, investigation and series of trials; and the poisonous domestic politics of late-1960s America.
"High desertion rates in any company, battalion or division pointed to failures of command and logistics for which blame pointed to leaders as much as to the men who deserted," he says.
The Dover mortuary has been under fire the past year for what the Air Force has called "gross mismanagement" for losing the body parts of two service members, repeated failures of command, doing little to correct sloppy practices and sawing off the protruding arm bone of a dead Marine without informing his family.
Mortuary officials had already been under fire for what the Air Force termed "gross mismanagement" for losing the body parts of two service members in 2009, repeated failures of command, doing little to change sloppy practices and sawing off the protruding arm bone of a dead Marine without informing his family.
But it's clear that somewhere in the company's chain of command, there is a failure to grasp the cultural tides that brought Barney and the Web together in the first place.
Buckley wrote that the operation was a failure of command.
Instead, it was clearly a failure of command and control, as the U.S. personnel and their Hmong allies were not permitted to freely organize their own defense to hold the radar facility.
Their failure of command, or effective leadership at the top -- not only the top of the U.S. but of the world, in effect -- was a reflection of their "nice" personalities, but a travesty of common sense, and an insult to history.
