Crisis of Command, Stuart Scheller
Crisis of Command, Stuart Scheller
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Crisis of Command
How We Lost Trust and Confidence in America's Generals and Politicians

Author: Stuart Scheller

Narrator: Stuart Scheller

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Kalorama

Published: 09/27/2022

Synopsis

Combat-decorated Marine officer Stuart Scheller speaks out against the debacle of the Afghan pullout as the culmination of a decades-long and still-ongoing betrayal of military members by top leadership, from generals to the commander in chief, comes to light.

Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller was the perfect Marine. Battle tested. A leader. Decorated for valor. Yet when the United States acted like the Keystone Cops in a panicked haphazard exit from Afghanistan for political reasons, Scheller spoke out, and the generals lashed out. In fact, they jailed him to keep him quiet, claiming he lost the "trust and confidence" bestowed upon him by the Marines—when the faith and trust is exactly what our generals and even our commander-in-chief betrayed by exercising such reckless and derelict policies. Now Scheller is free from the shackles of the Marine Corps and can speak his mind. And in Crisis of Command, that he does. He holds our generals' feet to the fire. The same generals who play frivolously with the lives of our service men and women for political gain. The same generals who lied to political leaders to further their own agendas and careers. Stuart Scheller is here to say that the buck stops here. Accountability starts now. It's time to demand accountability and stand up for our military. In this book, Stuart Scheller shows us how.

About Stuart Scheller

Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller joined the United States Marine Corps in 2005. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati and a master's in military science from the Marine Corps Command and Staff College. Over the course of his seventeen-year service, he commanded troops at the platoon, company, and battalion level. He has excelled as a leader both on deployment and in the training of future warriors. In the first year of his service he was called upon to help evacuate American citizens from Beirut during the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese conflict. In Ramadi, Iraq, he served as a company executive officer and fire support team leader. In the Paktika and Ghanziprovinces of Afghanistan, he helped clear IEDs. He has held multiple training commands including, most recently, commander of the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion at the School of Infantry East at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. It was in this capacity that he attracted attention in the summer of 2021 for speaking out against the disordered American withdrawal from Afghanistan and the failures in leadership-civil and military-that led to the chaos.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lloyd on December 08, 2022

The subtitle of this book is “How We (i.e., the American public) Lost Trust and Confidence in America’s Generals and Politicians”. The time when that trust was lost was when the horribly conceived and executed withdrawal from Afghanistan occurred in August of 2021. The point is that no general offic......more

Goodreads review by Scott on February 08, 2023

(Audiobook) (3.5 stars) This work is an autobiographical account of the Marine that spoke out on social media about the failings of the US military when Afghanistan fell back to the Taliban in the chaotic US retreat from the country after 20 years. Scheller became an internet sensation and a major p......more

Goodreads review by Rick on September 12, 2022

Lieutenant Colonel Scheller's book is one that I did not want to put down. He is to be commended for having the courage to see the faults, problems, and misgivings in the military-industrial complex and then have the courage to question the senior leadership. The withdraw from Afghanistan was a debac......more

Goodreads review by Steven on September 23, 2022

A must read for the today’s Marine. No organization is wholly free from rot and corruption, no matter how marginal or pronounced—the Marine Corps is not exempt. LtCol Scheller details his personal and professional conflict with the institution while simultaneously exposing much broader, concerning,......more

Goodreads review by Julia on March 15, 2025

This began as a decent autobiography. It then descends into immature rambling that is incredibly inappropriate for a Marine especially of that rank.......more

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