after-action

“The personnel of OSS, recruited and brought together in haste under the stress of the emergency, tended to be uneven in quality,” his deputy, John Magruder, concluded in a candid after-action report.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

At dinner parties he read in a loud and dramatic voice for his enthralled tablemates after-action reports filed by OSS commandos.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

“The personnel of OSS, recruited and brought together in haste under the stress of the emergency, tended to be uneven in quality,” his deputy, John Magruder, concluded in a candid after-action report.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

He read a half dozen campaign books, which he had expected to read like after-action reports but which proved to be gossipy insider accounts that were mostly the collected grievances, conceits, score settling, blame shifting, and credit taking of campaign staffers, which he found distasteful, to say the least.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

At dinner parties he read in a loud and dramatic voice for his enthralled tablemates after-action reports filed by OSS commandos.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

He read a half dozen campaign books, which he had expected to read like after-action reports but which proved to be gossipy insider accounts that were mostly the collected grievances, conceits, score settling, blame shifting, and credit taking of campaign staffers, which he found distasteful, to say the least.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

"Every after-action report included a section of analysis and recommendations, and those nuggets of hard-won knowledge were absorbed into future command decisions, doctrine, planning, and training throughout the service."

When We Were the Underdog Ronald Spector 2011

I prefer to wait for the after-action report for any such judgment.

Don't rush to judge officers in Takoma Park standoff Arlington Michael J. Bolton 2011

He read a half dozen campaign books, which he had expected to read like after-action reports but which proved to be gossipy insider accounts that were mostly the collected grievances, conceits, score settling, blame shifting, and credit taking of campaign staffers, which he found distasteful, to say the least.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

“Downes and his staff were acting like bandits, requisitioning everything, including cars, without rhyme or reason,” one OSS officer complained in an after-action report.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011