Obama’s military- Making Jimmy Carter’s look like Patton’s 3rd Army.
Unfortunately this rot started back in 1975.
It started with the rated OER system for officers which set brother officers against each other, office mates against each other, project subordinates against project leads (same ranks).
It continued in 1977 when the leadership decided that officers were managers not leaders. I personally had fun with that concept at Squadron Officer’s School.
In ran way when “tie breakers” became the core of an officer’s annual efficiency report in the 1980s.
Now, two full generations later (a military generation is 20 years the minimum for retirement) the pot has fallen over.
Is there a way to turn this around? Yes, but how do you take an officer corps bread to be lap dogs and turn them into guard dogs over night?
I, as a retiree, could do it; but a serving general officer?