BOOM: Top British Military Adviser Says Obama “Chronically Incompetent”

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has already come out and questioned Obama’s abilities as Commander-in-Chief, but we’re now getting confirmation from our allies’ leaders that they think he’s incompetent as well.

Sir Hew Strachan is an expert on military history and an adviser to the Chief of Defense Staff said in a recentinterview that Obama’s Afghanistan and Syria strategies have crippled America’s position in the world.

He went so far as to tell The Daily Beast that Obama is “chronically incapable” in forming a coherent Middle East strategy.  The Daily Beast writes:

President Obama is “chronically incapable” of military strategy and falls farshort of his predecessor George W. Bush, according to one of Britain’s most senior military advisors.

Sir Hew Strachan, an advisor to the Chief of the Defense Staff, told The Daily Beast that the United States and Britain were guilty of total strategic failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Obama’s attempts to intervene on behalf of the Syrian rebels “has left them in a far worse position than they were before.”

The extraordinary critique by a leading advisor to the United States’ closest military ally comes days after Obama was undermined by the former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who questioned the President’s foreign policy decisions and claimed he was deeply suspicious of the military.

Strachan, a current member of the Chief of the Defense Staff’s Strategic Advisory Panel, cited the “crazy” handling of the Syrian crisis as the most egregious example of a fundamental collapse in military planning that began in the aftermath of 9/11. “If anything it’s gone backwards instead of forwards, Obama seems to be almost chronically incapable of doing this. Bush may have had totally fanciful political objectives in terms of trying to fight a global War on Terror, which was inherently astrategic, but at least he had a clear sense of what he wanted to do in the world. Obama has no sense of what he wants to do in the world,” he said.

Obama is alienating our allies and our nation’s own military leaders with his incoherent foreign policy.  He’s been all over the map on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria.  He’s played politics with troop withdrawal from the Middle East to get re-elected, causing the mother of the first fallen Navy SEAL in Iraq to refuse to call him “Commander-in-Chief.”  The world no longer has a powerful America to look to in times of crisis, and that can be dangerous.

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