http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060112.wxiraq12/BNStory/International/British officer blasts U.S. tactics Says army's 'cultural insensitivity ... amounted to institutional racism' By ALAN FREEMAN
Thursday, January 12, 2006 Posted at 5:01 AM EST
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
WASHINGTON — A senior British military officer has lashed out at the U.S. Army's performance in Iraq, accusing it of cultural insensitivity that "amounted to institutional racism" and a predisposition to offensive operations that proved counterproductive when it was faced with a growing insurgency.
Brigadier Nigel Aylwin-Foster, who served alongside the Americans in Iraq in 2004, made the scathing assessment in an article in the latest issue of Military Review, published by the U.S. Army itself.
The article has prompted an angry reaction from some U.S. military officials, including the colonel in charge of the army's School of Advanced Military Studies, who lashed out at Brig. Aylwin-Foster as "an insufferable British snob."
Brig. Aylwin-Foster, who was deputy commander of a program designed to train the new Iraqi army, praised the U.S. Army for its patriotism, sense of duty, commitment, talent, and humanity and compassion. In the 14-page article, he also lauded the army's initial success at toppling the regime of Saddam Hussein
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