Posted on 03/01/2013 8:15:13 PM PST by Perseverando
The military leadership is proving to be a solid ally of President Obama in political Washington, adopting his social revolution and willing to serve as backdrops to the White House's campaign-style drive to win the budget battle with Republicans.
The armed forces have launched an unrelenting lobbying effort on Capitol Hill with a flood of briefing charts to defense staffers. They show the damage that automatic budget cuts called "sequestration" would do to the troops -- and to jobs in congressional districts. The charts coincide with the White House push to blame congressional Republicans for the spending cuts, which begin Friday.
The fates of the military chiefs and the president are more closely tied than ever.
"If there is a single constant in the norm of civilian control, it is that the military instinctively submits," said Ken Allard, a retired Army officer and columnist. "But they also recognize that presidents get exactly the kind of military advice they deserve. And he is ultimately responsible for failure or success."
Mr. Obama has won them over on the social front, too.
The Joint Chiefs have applauded opening ranks to gays. They now are searching for ways to implement Mr. Obama's other landmark decision -- lifting a ban on women serving in direct combat jobs, the infantry and special operations.
When the White House complained about supposed anti-Muslim training in the ranks, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put into motion investigations that led to the firing of a decorated Army officer as a staff college teacher.
Political realists
Although the top brass have avoided appearing at Obama budget events, military aviators served as a backdrop Tuesday when the commander in chief landed at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., on his way to a Newport News shipyard
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Under W Bush, his last Sgt.Maj.of the Army, wore an EIB. I will never forget that.
Seems our military is now run by pu**ies.
Ray Odierno. Knew him at Ft Hood when he was CG of 4th ID. No nonsense guy and hard trainer. Led the 4th ID thru some tough fighting in Tikrit and later tasked with executing the surge in Iraq. Now the CSA. Sometime between then and now, he drank the Obama koolaid in mass quantities. He’s one of the early and main proponents for bringing women into the combat arms ranks.
Start to scriptin’ then, blue balls...tell ‘em all about it.
We are so screwed.
Hopefully, there will be a chance to remember who these worms are. Hopefully, it will work out for them just like it did for Nazi sympathizers.
I’ve been reading “The Admirals” about Leahy, King, Nimitz and Halsey. Four more different people could not be found. Of the three, King seems to have been the most prototypical of the type that makes it to the top these days. Why is it that those who make it to the top are most often disrespected? Is it simply jealousy or is it something they do?
Of the four Admirals Nimitz seems to be most admirable and then Halsey. Both seemed to be lacking in guile and having leadership abilities. Leahy was just smooth and loyal but not an outstanding leader.
It seems to me to rise to the top you have to be willing to leave a part of you behind. You also seem to need to take one for the boss, not for the team. To declare and demonstrate fealty to the boss.
I have said for years that the attitude of the staff is a reflection of the attitude of the management. Like promotes like or what he can control.
I think this is how it happens, how a general rationalizes caving in:
“The guy who will replace me is REALLY bad, and will be totally gung-ho for homos and girls in combat. At least I can slow it down. So I’ll stay in until I get my 30 and retire without a fuss.”
Hackworth knew what to call them: Perfumed Princes. I’d add Political Prostitutes.
This cultural sensitivity stuff has pushed us over the cliff.
GOs attending too many academia symposiums and D.C. Cocktail parties. That’s where most of this crap gets its steam. That, and we have an army of secular humanist executive level civil servants infecting the DoD, calling the shots and feeding these guys their pablum.
Isn’t Benedict Arnold our Secretary of State?
What good is having a defense budget if those who are paid to defend us look the other way as a domestic enemy destroys the fabric of this nation? If they are leaving it up to we the people to do the job they are paid to do we don’t need them do we?
Amen brother. They are simply butt kissers for that next promotion. I am so glad that I am 21 years plus retired and no longer of the Long Pink Line that has taken over.
That’s a fracking fact! I don’t remember Patton singing the Horst Wessel song either.
See 41. Know any senior officers, past or present?
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Disgusting, isn’t it? The Ottoman Empire also covered a lot of the map, but it was utterly rotten inside at the end. It’s collapse was swift and total. History rhymes.
You can add Betrayeus to that list.
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