They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To: America’s Greatest Old Generals, And Their Sorry Modern Replacements

Milley was also the first signatory on an “unprecedented” letter by leading U.S. generals denouncing the events of January 6, which described the tumult as “a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process.”

The massive fraud in the election was the sole direct assault upon our Constitutional process.

He is chairman of the joints chief of staff, next in line to the chain of command to the President.

The Posse Comitatus Act restricted his ability to do so.

“He is chairman of the joints chief of staff, next in line to the chain of command to the President.”

Um, no. He has ZERO succession to the president.

Years of Watching General Mark Milley Finally Make Sense – The Chairman of The Joint Chiefs is a Political Operative

June 23, 2021 | Sundance | 554 Comments

A statement made by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley defending the teaching Critical Race Theory to West Point cadets has gained some attention. However, the comments Milley made today actually reconcile several years of CTH watching Milley operate and having puzzling questions.

Remember, General Milley did some really odd things as Joint Chiefs Chairman under President Trump:

(1) Milley never removed Lt. Col Alexander Vindman from his White House post after the underling compromised his leadership position. The pentagon left Vindman on assignment to the NSC even after Vindman attempted to take-down President Trump.

(2) Milley was then slow to react to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer threatening President Trump; attempting to extort him into inaction over the disciplinary plans against the SEAL commando, Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher. And perhaps worst of all…

(3) Joint Chief Chairman Milley, SoS Mike Pompeo traveled to Mar-a-Lago in December 2019, where they informed President Trump of military strikes in Syria and Iraq *after* they took place. [Background Here] [Background Here]. President Trump made Esper, Milley and Pompeo hold a press conference without Trump supporting them; then President Trump remained silent on the issue for days.

It seemed like CTH was alone noticing the issues with the Pentagon and suspicions of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley. However, a few days after the Mar-a-Lago incident Col Douglas Macgregor expressed his own suspicions about the U.S. military attack in Iraq and Syria that paralleled our gut reaction. Macgregor stated he believed President Trump was being intentionally and “skillfully, misinformed”.

There were valid reasons for suspicion around General Milley and the entire Pentagon apparatus.

Factually, President Trump’s strategic approach toward foreign threats and foreign intervention (through the use of geopolitical economic pressure) was a major paradigm shift that removed the Defense Department from a primary role and placed them back into a more appropriate ‘contingency’ role, when it came to foreign policy and national security.

It was obvious from the outset of the Trump administration the Pentagon did not like that position.

Before explaining more, let us watch General Milley today outline his worldview on internal domestic politics. Note how Milley connects the teaching of Critical Race Theory to his view that people attempted to “assault” the DC Capitol and “overturn the constitution of the United States“. Watch this carefully because in many ways he is saying the quiet thing out loud:

Gen. Mark Milley defends teaching ‘critical race theory’ at West Point | New York Post

In the big picture it was not difficult to figure out why the Pentagon would be opposed to Trump. During the Trump campaign and early administration President Trump’s expressed foreign policy was viewed by NATO alliance members as a threat. President Trump dared to tell them their “cold war mentality” was outdated. Heck, the NATO members were simultaneously purchasing energy from Russia at the same time they were demanding the U.S. military protect them from any Russian aggression.

The same type of common sense perspective that startled the NATO alliance members applied internally to the U.S. military.

President Trump’s preferred use of economic warfare made the Pentagon’s role diminished. Instead of punching North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, President Trump hit the checkbook of Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping (tariffs etc.) and then opened diplomatic discussions with the DPRK Chairman. Toward the threat from North Korea the primary military response became the contingency plan; President Trump engaged in economic leverage, not military…. and it worked.

As a consequence the value of James Mattis was replaced by the effectiveness of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. Joint Chief’s Milley was not in the primary planning room; Milley was replaced by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (until he’s needed).

In the Trump era the President was telling the Pentagon where and when to position; and then asked them for ‘contingency’ preparation. Decades of Pentagon-centric foreign policy was lessened by an entirely new geopolitical approach based on an economic strategy. This was, in essence, the Trump Doctrine.

Take away power, or worse yet, stop using military power, and the leaders within the system start to sense their institution becoming functionally obsolescent. Overlay this military fear with pre-existing ideological differences and the situation gets worse.

Unfortunately, like all other issues in the era of hyper-polarization, normally liberal democrats would be alarmed about military leadership going rogue with their own agenda. However, as long as that agenda was anti-Trump, the political-left with a totalitarian outlook are now okay with it.

In 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden was openly asking the U.S. military to initiate a coup against President Trump. The corporate media didn’t bat an eyelash… The traditional checks-and-balances, things that normally keep us stable, started getting very sketchy within the military; this has only gotten worse in the past year.

Remember,… the impeachment effort was only a “soft-coup” until the uniformed military showed up. Yet these same Pentagon leaders have the nerve now to call a protest in DC, likely manipulated by the FBI, an insurrection “intended to overturn the constitution of the United States of America.” The one thing these leftist ideologues are good at is projection.

“Tell me again how we should “back the blue”, as we watch parents arrested at school board meetings. Tell me again that most FBI agents are good & legitimate, while we watch 15 agents investigate a garage pull-down cord while ‘known wolfes’ roam free. Tell me again. Please, keep telling me…. and when the order comes down to go door to door to collect citizens’ firearms, or to arrest citizens for wrong thoughts, our local police and military will follow orders”… and I will say “tell me again”, in handcuffs.

The corrupt, dastardly democrats kept President Trump on his back foot for his entire term.

After the initial attempts to overturn the election,

they sought to destroy Trump by attacking Gen Flynn et. al.

there was the interminable Mueller ‘investigation’

followed by the first fake impeachment attempt.

and then something else.

and then the second fake impeachment attempt.

If Trump had fired more than just Comey - what would they have done?

Yes. Trump did not order two divisions into the Capitol.
After the 6th, Pence basically lead a coup. I think Trump was told shut up, and you will be allowed to leave quietly in two weeks. He was told no pardons except a few nobody cares about, but no Snowden, no Assange, etc. No military moves such as stopping the two division deployments.
He was told to comply, or the the 26th would be triggered and upheld in 24 hours, and he or his kids would likely be arrested.

Pence/Pelosi/Mitch were in agreement with the intel community, AG and Joint Chiefs including Millie.
As in any coup the military took to the streets and dissenters were rounded up. The military was rapidly vetted for loyalty to the coup.
As in any coup the Radio station was seized. (Facebook and all social media silenced Trump, and all stations refused him airtime except for one short hostage video where he said he did not want violence)

We just experienced a violent overthrow of the Republic and now live under an authoritarian oligarchy.

Now they have turned towards us.

Are they all Obama appointees then?

Every current member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were appointed by Trump.

Isn’t this where you jump with details on how the military is actually running things with Trump’s support? And that not only are SEALS protecting Trump but the other military members are only awaiting the right time to return him to office?

I had to look it up but you are right, was thinking back in my military days 50 years ago and the CJCS was always in the chain of command pics in the CO’s office.

Interesting bit on Gen. Milley.

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He’s not really a general. More like a commissar.

GREAT post.

Our military has been transformed into a woketary.

Many times during the Trump presidency I told my wife that the US government was in rebellion, mostly in the shadows, but sometimes out right against a duly elected president and tacitly against the will of the American people.

If nothing changes the deep state/US military will pick the presidents from here on out, the new Praetorian Guards of modern times. And as history has shown us the Praetorian’s sucked at picking competent leaders for the most part. If you take away our strategic nuclear weapons our days are numbered. If an enemy ever determines we will NEVER use them they are anyway. We are firmly on the path of empire and into the ash heap of history as a great experiment that failed because of a bureaucratic take over, unless things change rapidly in the next two election cycles.

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Actually, Trump was the least powerful President since Buchanan, as the military, the Federal law enforcement community, both parties in Congress, and the permanent bureaucracy were aligned against him.

RNC did not support Trump. MAGA movement is new. Trump only had 4 years. Now he's out of office.

Appointees,
Compromised,
Bribed or
Threatened.
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The “Players” that Orchestrated this Color Revolution really did a
Completely Top to Bottom job leaving Every Hole plugged.

Fascinating timeline DR and think you’re basically right in that analysis...

They will of course make a mess of things as they have no idea how to govern. It will be their undoing just wait and see.

The real battles will be to clean up the election process and to eliminate as many RINOs as possible in next year's primaries. All ten of the Republicans who voted for impeachment in the House must be taken out, along with other weaklings. Ditto for the state legislatures and statewide offices, especially in the six contested states. Why would you want to replace Whitmer in Michigan with a GOP squish like Kemp of Georgia?

Wait for the coming “Big War” (A war against a foe that can crush us and occupy the United States not some Third World Narco-State “police Action” war). Then such Generals will prove how worthless they are. Political Generals (Like Union general Banks in the Civil War) give more help to the enemy than to the nation. The Liberals think There will never be another big war—the world will become a “Star-Trek” One world Government lead by the UN (Ha-ha). History tells us that a Big war—a World War-— happens about every Century. We are overdue for one and its coming. My guess it will come about 2027-8. Its going to be a title bout on who’e going to run the world.