"What we have here, is failure to communncate."
It's a bit confusing, but the woman MP general in question was also named Lipinski. I can't seem to find some of the articles about her which I read earlier, but here's one that turned up in a Google search.
http://www.useless-knowledge.com/columnists/mikeromer/article13.html
My impression at the time was that she was incompetent, promoted over her head because she was a woman, and incapable of maintaining discipline within her command. Naturally no one dared say so, because criticizing a woman general officer would be a real career-killer.
See, Graner's not all that bad!