G'morning Mo1,I was reading somewhere on FR yesterday about a journalist who had been talking with officers about how the war was going. An officer told him that we were about three days behind schedule because of the sand storm. Evidently these officers were told that by such and such date we will be in Baghdad by a senior officer. Perhaps the area commander. How this would occur I'm not sure. If the commander said, "We should be in Baghdad by such and such date if all goes according to the current plans" and the junior officer took that to be a fixed schedule forgetting about the word "IF" then I can see where the problem arises.
Now on embedding the journalists into the troops. I think this is a good idea because when they get home they will have seen the performance of the troops and feel like a brother to them. This will certainly reduce future anti military articles. You don't cuss out your brother in public. We need pro military journalists to help keep America strong. If Democrats want to cut the military they will be writing anti Democrat articles about the proposed cuts.