As covered in the news repeatedly over the last three years, our troops are continually challenged in getting the stuff they need in theater. Military leadership can tell you that there we have a crisis in getting technology and equipment out of our military acquisition pipelines and into the field (despite the installation and efforts of the Office of Force Transformation and the US Army Rapid Equipping Force, that are yet at odds with the old order system. You just have to review the Trophy PRG Defeat system issue, for one).

From my view over the last 5 years, you would have little idea we were in a war, much less WWIV. One may say that addressing this is someone else’s job, but the ultimate leadership is the President’s and he has not grasped the gravity of the issue and taken command of getting needed armor and new equipment directly through his military system to assure the speed critical to his success (much like he hasn’t engaged the public in this being a critical war that they must participate in).

As Commander-in-Chief of the US Forces, George W. Bush remains isolated from a tactical development which most addresses his doctrinal words of engagement in the war on restructuring stability in the Middle East, despite repeated efforts over the past three years from varied angles of getting his awareness of this. Being involved in the program, we have only asked him to grasp the capabilities gap he has. He doesn