I was an Operations Officer.
I planned a few.
You are another one who believes that generals are gods.
They aren’t.
We pay them a lot of hard-earned tax dollars to win.
I don’t really care if Obama makes it hard for them.
They still need to figure out how to win in spite of Obama.
If they can’t do that, then they need to get out of the way and let some new ideas have a chance.
Those generals all scream about subordinates making excuses and then they sit there making excuses.
There are operations officers, and then there are planners. You are most definitely an operations officer. No combatant command has been given the order or authority to defeat ISIS. That is a fact. Absent orders, they plan and they support what they have been given authority to do.
It has nothing to do with their paycheck. The generals are under civilian control. I am sorry your government class failed to point that out.
Good Day, sir.