These days, Political Correctness and cocktail parties are much more important than winning wars or protecting the lives of our troops.
Coincidentally, only a very small percentage of the slime in congress and DC ever served in the military, certainly not the foreigner parading around as CIC.
Agree to some extent but Patton was truly an outlier even back in his day. A large portion of the brass was kissing political @ss back then too.
It is always the way. In peace time the politicians and the cookie pushers edge out the fighting generals. When the stuff hits the fan, the fighting men rise to the surface and win the fight.