Uncivil Military.

This article discusses the tension between the coalition military forces and the Coalition Provisional Government in the wake of the Iraq war. Eleven months after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, it's hard to find a soldier in the field with a kind word to say about the CPA, the 2,500-employee, civilian-run administration based in Baghdad and headed by L. Paul Bremer. Civilian chief Bremer and his military counterpart, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, who have offices near each other in Saddam's former Republican Palace in Baghdad, have sparred over many aspects of the occupation--especially Bremer's decision last May to disband the Iraqi military, a move soldiers blame for fueling the insurgency that has led to the deaths of over 260 American soldiers. When Bremer took over in May 2003, the military's impatience with the CPA continued. These frustrations reflected a dangerous difference in philosophy: Troops in the field were preoccupied with quickly fixing local problems, while the CPA in Baghdad favored a longer-term, broader but sometimes ineffective approach.