Ret. General Douglas Macgregor is full of shit.
He is almost never right. And is arrogant.
Woke military will kill very well, maybe their own side. (I have to point out the their/them pun or you might not get it).
But the retired general considers battles will be as in Yemen or Ukraine. Me thinks they will be in Europe, intra-city. That’s the future battlefield scenario. But it would certainly be racist to consider it so we ought focus on white religious nationalism and do pushups from the knees, if you have the espirit de corp.
Uh-huh. Yeah. Right.
Having spent a career in the military industrial complex I can attest that equipment, technology and systems do not always get procured because they are the thing that is needed. Such factors as whose districts are involved count. Factors like prestige, corruption and politics are heavily involved. As one Airforce general said in the fifties, unless the next jet is faster and flies higher than the last one, don’t even show it to me.
An example of this is how plate armor stayed around long after its utility on the battlefield was gone. The way it looked followed the fashion of the day, with first pointed feet and then blunt feet. It had become a status symbol. What the modern battlefield needs is artillery shells but look at the debates in the halls of finance and artillery shells take a distant seat from sexier items like stealth.
Eventually, reality wins out, but not before a lot of lives are lost due to political factors.
The answer is always "more money." Replace the word "Army" with any Fed.gov agency or department, and you describe the present state of US Federal Government.
22 March 2017. A lifetime ago...