If you missed the NY Times op-ed penned by 7 officers at the end of their tours in Iraq, let Fred Kaplan's Slate article catch you up. The gravamen of the piece is that their experience of the insurgency/counterinsurgency causes the officers to be "skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and [to] feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest [they] see every day."

The piece continues to detail the causes of that skepticism.

Kaplan asks the interesting question: where are these officers now? How has the article affected their return home and job security?