US commanders in Afghanistan face tougher discipline for battlefield failures --
In today's Washington Post in an article entitled US commanders in Afghanistan face tougher discipline for battlefield failures we learn that there is a new sheriff in town relative to holding battlefield commanders directly responsible for high death tolls on Afghani battlefields.
The fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan might get worse before it got better, said the new head of the US Central Command, Gen. David H Petraeus, who as the US commander of forces in Iraq oversaw the troop ``surge'' that reduced violence there.