Generals get paid to do.
If they can’t find a way to win, then retirement calls their names.
“The maximum effective range of an excuse is zero meters!”
These generals will have said that sometime in their career.
There is nothing dishonorable in admiting that they can’t do the job and then retiring so that some new thoughts can come forward.
The vast majority of the Obama appeasers in the Pentagon need to be told to have their resignations on President Trump’s desk in 3 hours. They have stood silently by while Obama has destroyed the morale and operational effectiveness of the military through crippling rules of engagement, misguided gender integration, harassment witch hunts, homosexual indoctrination, and muslim infiltration. They cannot be trusted to do what is necessary to support their troops or defend America.
You do not know how the system works. Like Vietnam, Korea, and Beirut; if the generals are not allowed to win, they most certainly will not.