If there were fault to be placed on the operations or in order to attribute a focus on the cause of the underlying disagreement between General Shelton as Chairman of the JCS and Clark as the field commander of a complex multi-national operation deeply influenced by the politics of international relations, I would lay that blame at the feet of SecDef Cohen. He was indecisive, unwilling to become well informed on the needs of the operation and approached the entire problem as a political balance rather than the prudent application of force to achieve the strategic end. Cohen was so far out of his league as SecDef that the depletion of military readiness and a terribly failed logistics train were unarguably due to his gross incompetence.