"Colonel Lawrence Sellin: Man fired for his sniping will not go quietly – Americas, World – The Independent
July 27, 2011 Gunny G Edit Leave a comment Go to
A senior officer in General David Petraeus’s support staff, who was fired for publicly criticising the US military’s “PowerPoint culture”, has issued a fresh broadside against what he says is a bloated, ineffective bureaucracy at America’s headquarters in Afghanistan.
Colonel Lawrence Sellin was fired from his role after he wrote a column attacking the system for using relentless slide-show presentations to “cognitively challenged” generals instead of formulating coherent policy.
Col Sellin, a 61-year-old army reservist, said he had no regrets about his action and that others at the main base of the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul congratulated him for speaking out. “I am not sorry at all. I think there are a lot of people"
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