- Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:48 am
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Sir Hew Strachan, an expert on the history of war, says that the president’s strategic failures in Afghanistan and Syria have crippled America’s position in the world.
President Obama is “chronically incapable” of military strategy and falls far short of his predecessor George W. Bush, according to one of Britain’s most senior military advisors.
Winston Churchill held daily strategy meetings with his chairman of the Chiefs of Staff during the Second World War, which encouraged an open exchange of views. George Bush held twice weekly meetings during the Afgan and Iraqi wars with his chairman of the Chiefs of Staff. Obama has been in office for over five years and yet to hold a single meeting with his chairman of the Chiefs of staff. Instead Obama relies on his hand selected staff, such as Susan Rice and Mark Brzezinski, non of who have any military experience to brief him on military matters.
Strachan, a current member of the Chief of the Defense Staff’s Strategic Advisory Panel, cited the “crazy” handling of the Syrian crisis as the most egregious example of a fundamental collapse in military planning for political reasons he had ever seen.
The extraordinary critique by a leading advisor to the United States’ closest military ally comes days after Obama was undermined by the former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who questioned the President’s foreign policy decisions and claimed he was deeply suspicious of the military. 