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Individual story can tell you what your war policy should be or should have been. if this is your first experience with watching people left behind in war, then use it to decide whether you will support the next american war. but if you use it, as an example of something you know how to do better than the american military, then you are making the mistake of believing that the madness of war can be matched. the american military does not know how to manage the madness of war. catch 22 is a phras...

60 years ago, joseph heller put that phrase in our vocabulary through the title of his war novel "catch-22," which captures the clumsy and inefficient processes of the american military, which he experienced first hand serving in world war ii. armies are not efficient machines. armies are not run like automobile affects when the ceo of ford became the secretary of defense during the vietnam war. that organizational master, robert mcnamara was lost in that job, as lost in that job as any of the t...