Never mind: "The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies" was completed in 1881, all 128 volumes of it.
Of course, "It's difficult to write a history when everyone is still alive," as retired Army Colonel David Johnson, a principal researcher at the Rand Corporation, rightly notes.
Which makes the Army War College's publication of the Army's two-volume assessment of Operation Iraqi Freedom all the more surprising.
That's good news, though it's mitigated by the fact that, while the Army has always given primacy to its post-war reports by assigning them to the U.S. Army Center of Military History, which reports to the civilian Secretary of the Army, current plans call for the CMH to be folded into the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, where its historians will be answerable to a four star officer.
"Putting the CMH under TRADOC will kill the army history program."
The release of The U.S. Army in the Iraq War was accompanied by rumblings that, in highlighting civilian incompetence, the review had provided an escape hatch for senior military leaders.
"These guys are repeating the same mistakes on Iran that they say we made on Iraq. They're parroting the ignorance they decry," a senior Army officer who served in a senior command position in Iraq says.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-armys-official-iraq-war-history-truth-telling-or-mythmaking/
Of course, "It's difficult to write a history when everyone is still alive," as retired Army Colonel David Johnson, a principal researcher at the Rand Corporation, rightly notes.
Which makes the Army War College's publication of the Army's two-volume assessment of Operation Iraqi Freedom all the more surprising.
That's good news, though it's mitigated by the fact that, while the Army has always given primacy to its post-war reports by assigning them to the U.S. Army Center of Military History, which reports to the civilian Secretary of the Army, current plans call for the CMH to be folded into the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, where its historians will be answerable to a four star officer.
"Putting the CMH under TRADOC will kill the army history program."
The release of The U.S. Army in the Iraq War was accompanied by rumblings that, in highlighting civilian incompetence, the review had provided an escape hatch for senior military leaders.
"These guys are repeating the same mistakes on Iran that they say we made on Iraq. They're parroting the ignorance they decry," a senior Army officer who served in a senior command position in Iraq says.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-armys-official-iraq-war-history-truth-telling-or-mythmaking/
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