While the sybaritic top brass toss meat to their dogs, or query the freshness of their croissants, ordinary soldiers wolf down the rations in the trenches they storm.
It tells the story of the malfeasance of the uniformed senior military in misleading the nation and the President about the true state of affairs as the war spiraled down to defeat.
Russian news outlets Tass and RIA cited a senior Russian officer as saying Syrian troops using Russian-made anti-aircraft weapons shot down two missiles and seven guided bombs, damaging equipment at the facility.
High-ranking, retired officers and civilian military leaders assert that a highly qualified racially diverse officer corps, drawn in large part from college ROTC programs, is essential to our nation's security.
He competed as an independent, a so-called third party candidate. His choice for vice president was James Stockdale, a former high-level Navy officer and pilot.