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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Paul Yingling

Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling is a retired United States Army officer. In 2007 Yingling published an article in the Armed Forces Journal criticizing senior leadership for perceived failures in the conduct of the post-invasion Iraq War occupation. Yingling served three tours in the Iraq War, first as executive officer of 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery in OIF I, as the effects coordinator for the 3rd ACR from March 2005 to March 2006 during OIF III, and finally as J5 for TF 134 from April 2008 to July 2009. He retired from the Army in 2012 to teach high school social studies.

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat. — © Paul Yingling
Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.
...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.
The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.
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