If you read the new book by Maj Fred Galvin USMC (ret), "A Few Bad Men", you will necessarily be furious at the incredible mistreatment of a true Marine's Marine by officers of the Corps, the Army and the Air Force as they persecuted Galvin and his unit for a horrific crime...that NEVER HAPPENED. I don't just mean that Galvin and his unit didn't commit the crime. I mean that the crime which they were accused of -- wantonly murdering civilians -- simply did not occur. Yet men's lives were ruined because higher levels of the US military just believed the claims of Afghans, including of at least one known terrorist, without question and because the (fake) incident seemed to pose a threat to the COIN (counter-insurgency) strategy that, as Maj Galvin argues, had modest success in Iraq but was always doomed to disastrous failure in Afghanistan.
Seriously, can you imagine being accused of some of the most brutal of war crimes and almost being imprisoned by your own government for them...when the crimes themselves never happened?
Buy this book, read this book, and remember this book when you hear the top levels of our military talk about...anything.
If you need any more evidence that as much as we honor and support our troops, we must be wary of the uber-politicized top levels of the military, don't forget this horrorshow: