Who was thinking years into the future?  Who was planning for counterinsurgency?  This quote is so troubling at so many levels:

“I would work all day, go to my home (a few hundred yards away) around 11p.m., then work out of my home office for a couple more hours.  The military, in their wisdom, had replicated the deputy commander’s office in the deputy commander’s home, so that when I went home it was like going back to the office.  It made it easy to work more.  The phone rang from the moment I got home, and kept ringing every few minutes.  When I finally got to bed around 1 a.m. or so, it kept ringing.  It never stopped.  We had people engaged in important activities all around the world all the time, which meant all hours of the night for me.  They knew they could call me anytime, and it was my job to give them answers.  I rolled over and answered that phone throughout the night.  If I got two hours of sleep, I was happy.”

Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington, D.C., 2004, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 49
Quote is from first paragraph, mid page, chapter 3.
Author is LTG Michael DeLong, USMC (Retired)