Centcom’s boss is retiring, a year after he took the job, in what Westhawk says seem to be differences between Fallon and the Bush administration over Iran policy. Op-For essentially agrees and has a link to the Esquire article that may have precipitated the admiral’s problems. Perhaps. Could be Iraq policy, as well. An old Army friend who knows them both insists that Fallon can’t stand Gen. David Petraeus. Given the latter’s success, the former may have found, on his own, that his usefulness to Bush was at an end.
MORE: I’ve always admired Wretchard’s sense and sensibility about military matters. Mackubin Owens contends that Fallon was coming close to Union Gen. George B. McLellan’s insubordination.
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