Posted on 08/25/2014 5:47:53 AM PDT by Biggirl
BREITBART: Several years ago you wrote a short piece berating the lack of strategic thought by the American officer corps. Why is it that what seems to be the most powerful nation the world has ever seen actually doesn’t think or act strategically?
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Long Title:
Exclusive: Ralph Peters On Obama's Reign Of Error And How America Lost It's Way In The War Against Jihad(Part 1)
Simple answer. Our military doesn’t know what “our” goals are. You can’t plan for a future for which you fail to aspire.
Peters contradicts himself every other sentence.
Sure about that?
He is an expert.
Read the first 2 parts and I have long agreed with the idea that dumbing down America and politicizing the military has had the desired effect of defanging our defensive and offensive capabilities.
Our most effective enemies are in this order: the left wing, the educational system being the sharp end of the spear and the Muzzies and their American enablers.
As Bush Jr. said, we will fight them there or we will fight them here.
MFLR.
when the civilian command authority fails to make good policy, it is impossible to make good strategy
For later
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