Agreed. Reading Nate Fick's book provides some proper perspective that balances out Evan Wrigiht's "perspective bias" that Sikboy mentions. Reading both books you get both viewpoints, and they dovetail together nicely, even though one may place more or less importance on a certain series of events. Probably the reason that Wright made Fick look like the only competent officer was because, to the Marines in that platoon, he appeared to be. Obviously, that insular perspective creates that. One thing I learned was that the more senior I got, the more sense senior-level decision making made. But, ultimately, I think there was a lot of flawed leadership throught 1 MarDiv during OIF, but that's just my personal opinion. I was simply encouraged that HBO had the guts to make that series just like the book presented it, without any sort of agenda.
