Did Lt. General Flynn spend too much time in a quasi office "shipping container"?

Although I'm still in the process of reading "General Chaos", I am impressed with the talent of the author Nicholas Schmidle. He aptly creates an intelligently nuanced report. In fact, there's more to this article than the face of the stern LtGeneral Michael Flynn. In fact, the reporting reveals how much we don't know (and have a lot to learn) about our government. Although the focus of the article is on Flynn, there's a universe of information, just beneath the surface of the narrative. Althuogh the feature is indexxed as "Letter from Washington", the article is more like a "Report to the Nation".

Quotes in "General Chaos" given to Schmidle, by Lt.Gen. Flynn and obtained from his reporting sources, provides insight into a man who has lost his political way.  Apparently, Flynn believes the world order is influenced according to his wrong minded thinking. Did Flynn spend too much time in a make-shift storage container, a quasi "office", set up in Afghanistan, and talk to himself? Possibly, he heard his echo bounce off the metal walls and believed he was being validated?  (Of course, that's just my own opinion.)

Stay tuned for Julie's Cliff Notes after I finish reading the entire article.

Nicholas Schmidle joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2012. His first article for the magazine, “Getting bin Laden,” was a National Magazine Award finalist. Since then, he has written about unresolved war crimes in Kosovo, post-traumatic stress disorder, and a Russian arms trafficker, for which he was named a 2013 Livingston Award finalist. Previously, he contributed to the Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Slate, and many other publications. He is the author of “To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan.” He received the 2008 Kurt Schork Award for his reporting in Pakistan and Afghanistan.