paul eaton

It really doesn’t make any sense to chide other people for indecision on Afghanistan when you, y’know, helped bring the country to the current dire crossroads. But Dick Cheney is Dick Cheney, and so the movie unspools itself again, oblivious to the outside world. Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, now of the progressive National Security [...]

One of the leaders of the so-called “generals’ revolt” against then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2006, ret. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, is about to join the progressive National Security Network, NSN sources confirm.
Eaton, a former infantry officer, had a 30-year Army career that including deployments to Somalia, Bosnia and Iraq. After retiring from the [...]

One of the major turning points of 2006 with regard to the Iraq war was the so-called “Generals’ Revolt,” in which a group of respected and recently retired Army and Marine generals, many of whom had served in Iraq, lambasted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for mismanaging the war. Since retired generals are often presumed to [...]