Crisis of Command

Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller was the perfect Marine. Battle tested. A leader. Decorated for valor. Yet when the United States conducted a haphazard exit from Afghanistan for political reasons, Scheller spoke out, and the generals lashed out. In fact, they jailed him to keep him quiet, claiming he lost the "trust and confidence" bestowed upon him by the Marines. Ironically, trust is exactly what our generals and politicians betrayed by exercising reckless and derelict policies. Now Scheller is free from the shackles of the Marine Corps and can speak his mind. And in Crisis of Command, he does just that. He holds our generals' feet to the fire. The same generals who played frivolously with the lives of our service men and women for political gain. The same generals who lied to political leaders to further their own agendas and careers. Stuart Scheller's story illustrates the failures of the bureaucratic system over the last two decades punctuated by the Afghanistan evacuation at the end of the failed wars. Accountability starts now. It's time to demand accountability and stand up for our military service members. In this book, Stuart Scheller shows us how.