Posted on 08/22/2014 5:42:43 AM PDT by luke1825
It's too bad German Gen. Irwin Rommel is not around.
He would have been the perfect guy to become chief of staff of the U.S. Army in Europe, a force of about 40,000 men.
Had he not departed for the Great General Headquarters in the Sky -- after Adolph Hitler forced him to swallow the cyanide pill -- President Barack Obama could have named Rommel, the famous Desert Fox, the new commander of American troops
Does “putz” accurately describe the looney toon occupying the wh?
Remember, “The Desert Fox” had his heads handed to him in North Africa by Patton and by Eisenhower at Normandy where he was conveniently on vacation (Not playing Golf).
What’s your point? Do you know that the Chief of Staff is not a Commander? He’s a staff officer. We have had exchange officers in all of the services for years. We had quite a few during the American Revolution including Germans. I doubt that Obama knew anything about this, unless he read it in the papers, which I seriously doubt.
We currently have foreign officers in all of our Army three star level headquarters - Koreans, Brits, Canadians, Germans, Australians. The Deputy Commander at Ft. Hood has been a Canadian General for years, long before Obama showed up on the scene.
A better question to ask in this article is why the heck do we have 40,000 Army troops in Germany to begin with? Are the French set to invade or some other country invading our allay I am unaware of?
The Soviet Union threat to Germany has been over for a long time and we don’t need 40,000 Army personnel over there anymore.
As an aside to my last post, I believe we only have 30,000 or less troops in South Korea to support a very real threat of an invasion from North Korea.
I think a Brit named Montgomery was involved as well.....El Alamain was Rommels Waterloo..
Because our enemies are not going to allow us six - nine months to get ready for a war anymore. We have to be ready to go in a very short time span.
Think of it this way. If you have to take a road trip. What is easier, bringing all the fixings, raw materials, and cook ware for a full meal or to pull over and hit the drive through?
It also keeps the neighbors on better behavior. Europe had seen a total of 20 years of peace from the fall of Rome until 1945. Since then, only the Yugoslavian Civil War has been particularly hot. The neighbors are a little more civilized when the sheriff has a gun and everyone knows he can mean business when needed.
Call me a world police type, but I’m of the mind we need cops in bad neighborhoods.
i hope this is satire because, if it isn't, there are some serious fact issues in that statement.
i don’t think the bundeswehr has conducted exercises above brigade level since unification.
Erwin.
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