the perfumed princes rang true....many of them a bunch of preppies with out true leadership skills.
Pretty good piece.
There appear to be parts of the U.S. military that are still in fighting shape. Individual unit successes in Afghanistan would point to that. OTOH, the broader rot of PC culture has taken a toll. The Navy patrol boat surrender to the Iranians would seem to demonstrate aspects of that decay.
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I don’t see where it’s the war’s fault at all or the handling of the press.
Elections have consequences.
I don’t see where it’s the war’s fault at all or the handling of the press.
Elections have consequences.
“The warrior culture was buried and a new culture was reborn that resembles corporate America, not the US military of yesteryear.”
One look at every single one of our modern Generals confirms this, Mattis included.
I’m at Desert Shield Desert Storm veteran. There is a huge difference between open desert tank warfare and today’s fight. We can win the fight against Islam, but only if we are able to name the enemy and give it no quarter. In many ways today’s fight is much more difficult. As for the changes in the military that is indicative of general social moral decay.
It’s the media’s army, to sell the media’s advertiser’s products.
Good post. Definitely BFL.
nobody beats the U.S. in a conventional war and Saddam tried to fight a conventional war.
Not so much conventional wars going on anymore and ROEs became screwed up for the current wars.
also,
almost as soon as desert storm was over, Cheney & Powell started dismantling the military. It was ripe for a foo-foo take over.
for later
>>Mattis also needs to get rid of the perfumed princes, and the feckless duds who have infested the senior ranks of the armed forces.
I would rather have a sergeant with guts running a division than a two star coward who is more worried about his pension and future job on cable news than the mission and the troops.<<
Needed to be resaid
Colin Powell should have been kicked out of the Army for his involvement in the My Lai massacre and it’s subsequent cover-up in Vietnam. He lied to the Americal Division commanding General as his G-2 when he could easily have gotten on a helicopter and witnessed first hand what went on down there. But he stayed in his air conditioned hooch and wrote one of the most disgusting, lying reports in American military history to that point just glossing over, and essentially writing a fictitious account of what had really gone on there.
Ptuh on Colin Powell! Forever.
Well, I was impressed by that article.............
Good article, thank you for posting.
If the ghosts were vanquished, it was only momentarily. Since then we have been back to fighting wars the same have-arsed stupid way.
The turd world people can only be reached by monumental power and brutality. It is all those illiterate inbreds can understand. Any quarter on our part is considered a sign of weakness. The turd worlder adversary needs to be beaten down to a limp, bloody, broken pulp. Their countries need to be reduced to rubble and desolation.
Even educated semi-rational WWII opponents like the Germans and Japanese could only understand one way. They were beyond negotiation. Then why should be believe that our current enemies will negotiate? Does anyone really think you can negotiate with lying camel trading, sheep humping taqiyya speaking illiterates?
We shouldn't even be there in the first place, but if so, then it has to be with a fanatical determination to destroy our enemy.
A good place to start is to STOP the redesign of nuclear submarines to accommodate women.
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Many servicemen would say PowerPoint destroyed out military but not as early as ‘91.
This is my PowerPoint. There are many like it but mine is 97.
My PowerPoint is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life.
My PowerPoint without me is useless. Without my PowerPoint, I am useless.
I must format my slides true. I must brief them better than the other staff sections who are trying to out brief me.
I must brief the impact on the CINC before he asks me. I will.
My PowerPoint and myself know that what counts in this war is not the information. We know that it is the number of slides, the colors of the highlights, and the format of the bullets that counts.
My PowerPoint is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its
strengths, its fonts, its accessories, its formats, and its colors.
I will keep my PowerPoint slides current and ready to brief. We will become part of each other. We will…
Before God I swear this creed. My PowerPoint and myself are defenders of my country. We are the masters of our subject. We are the saviors of my career.
So be it, until victory is America’s and there is no enemy, but peace (and the next exercise)!
What an excellent article. I hope it’s read far and wide at DoD and most importantly, by Mattis.
Truly, by now I’d hoped and expected he would have put a stop to the pc crap.