Charles E. Heller

The book was heavily pimped by the Army's leadership as a learning point for its officers during the 1980's. Now that time has passed we no longer hear the mantra of "No More Task Force Smiths", why is that? The simple truth is that the mantra was false and the stories in this book were poorly reported! History has shown us that Task Force Smith should be looked at as a unit success, not a failure. Then again, this book was hyped by the same "Senior Leaders" who saw integrity and honor in calling the "downsizing" of the Army as "rightsizing" and doing what has been shown was politically expedient rather than morally correct!… (mehr)