Last week on NPR's All Things Considered, Melissa Block interviewed Army Lt. Col. Paul Yingling regarding an article he wrote for the Armed Forces Journal.  Lt. Col. Yingling's 4500+ word article titled A Failure in Generalship, offers a stark and glaring assessment of military leadership, and implores congressional leaders to intervene in the selection of generals. Read the article in Armed Forces Journal here.  Listen to the NPR Radio interview here . Yingling is deputy commander, 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment at Ft. Hood.  He has served two tours in Iraq, another in Bosnia and a fourth in Operation Desert Storm.  He also holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Chicago.  These aren't the opinions of some pencil pusher or a life long public servant without combat experience.  Some of my favorite lines from the article include: Despite the fact the U.S. supported insurgencies in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Angola to hasten the Soviet Union's demise, the U.S. military gave little thought to counterinsurgency throughout the 1990s. The most fundamental military miscalculation in Iraq has been the failure to commit sufficient forces to provide security to Iraq's population. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) estimated in its 1998 war plan ...