Posted on 06/07/2019 3:02:46 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, said “political correctness” in today’s armed services would prevent the ascendance of historical military leaders such as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley. He offered his analysis on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow on the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
“We have lost so very, very much in terms of leadership, determination, and just forthrightness,” determined Gorka. “Look at the Eisenhowers or the Pattons or the Bradleys. These individuals wouldn’t make it past major in today’s military, because they would be seen as iconoclasts and too much individuals who are prepared to talk the truth.”
Gorka shared an anecdote from his time as an instructor at the Defense Department’s Joint-Professional Military Education (JPME) system.
“Political correctness infected our general officer class,” estimated Gorka. “I remember an exercise that I ran, it was a six-month special course for lieutenant colonels and colonels who have the [military occupational specialty] — the designation ‘strategist’ — so these are guys whose job it is to think strategically in the bowels of the Pentagon.”
As a JPME instructor, Gorka directed his class to determine the “primary threat” to America, and develop a “grand strategy” to address it.
“This was six years into the Obama administration. … More than half of the teams of colonels and half-colonels said that climate change and global warming is the primary threat to the United States. That’s where we are. I personally lost it.”
Subversion of meritocracy within the military in pursuit of “political correctness” pushed by “woke generals,” said Gorka, compromises nationals security. “These things have real-life consequences,” he stated. “When you dilute the conditions, the standards for passing Marine Corps basic training so that women can pass, that impacts combat effectiveness.”
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...Combating those seeking to destroy Western Civilization is an eternal endeavor, said Gorka.
Toxic Correctness is killing our country.
And our enemies rejoice, outside and within
This Gorka fella is a gem. Always on target. He is 100% right.
Well the head guy in charge of the military can make a wholesale change in leadership in it.
He is working on it, I’m sure.
Laz, I know that list of winning was IMPOSSIBLE to keep up but it was AWESOME!!
Some of us should have offered to help.
It would remind many here of what HAS been done so they can stop clutching whatever article of faith they clutch when in despair.
They should be clutched instead in thankfulness for Trump, folks.
BTW Laz, on more than one occasion, several FReepers have said I made a post worthy of a Laz post.
Its a COMPLIMENT to me but an INSULT to you :)
Hope you are doing well man.
Ping. Important insight into the mindset of top military leaders. It isn’t encouraging.
For the Chair Force a hardship deployment is billeting in a Holiday Inn where the TV has no remote. When they build an air base the first thing they build is the golf course, then the Officer’s Club, then they requisition more funds for a runway. There are more.
I wish Gorka had stayed working for Trump.
I love this guy !
The policy of ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ was the defacto policy for years.
Bill Clinton used it to do the democrat tactic I call “Repeal to a 3rd position”
1) Current policy is policy A
2) You want to institude a new policy B that you KNOW will never pass
3) You create policy C, which is the opposite of B.
4) You design C so badly that it gets thrown out as unconstitutional.
5) When C is ‘repealed’, you don’t go back to A- which is the true meaning of repeal, but you say that since C was declared unconstitutional then the OPPOSITE of C must be constitutional and so you go to B - which is what you really wanted all along.
They successfully did this with ‘dont ask dont tell’ and ‘gay marriage’
I am worried that the current attempts to pass concealed carry nationally are another attempt.
In the old days the Seabees would build the sick bay, the chow hall and a club in that order. Now they probably build the girls’ air conditioned barracks first. Just guessing. It’s been a long time.
*** I wish Gorka had stayed working for Trump.
I love this guy! ***
He’s a snowflake neocon who has been cheerleading how Great and Patriotic it is to join the military for regime change wars which are of no benefit to America. Too bad Pompeo, Bolton, and Javanka are still influencing our President.
The war in Afghanistan would be over if the Taliban were killed by the division in their homes where they live.
To win a war, the enemy musr nbe killed, whereever he exists. If his wife and kids happen to be there, too bad for them
“NCO’s are sly, devious and cunning… and they bear considerable watching!” This was a quote (paraphrased) from early twentieth century officer manuals.
Times are different now and warfare is technology driven in ways that could only have been imagined in the heydays of WW2. Generals are politicians now. Most of the field grade officers are at the teetering point where they realize that to get promoted, they’ll have to become politicians too. Many of the young company grade officers that I know realize that to get anything done at their level they have to listen to the field grade politicians dictate the mission expectations as they understand them from the generals. Then taking the interpretations and the expectations, they’ll compare them to the actual situation they’re facing in reality, and once they can communicate what they believe the situation to be, they turn it over to the NCO’s to actually make something happen. The old saying “There’s a Marshall’s baton in every corporal’s knapsack!” rings true.
Anyone who’s ever served as a Senior NCO, and was worth a damn in the U.S. Military understands this. Much bovine scat flows downhill, and the smart and prudent NCO knows how to take it, shape it, mold it, repackage it in PC terminology, and up-channel it back up the chain convincing the upper echelons that the orders are being carried out. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the smart and prudent NCO is carrying out the plan the way he originally intended to, and probably achieving successful results beyond all expectations.
Having said all of that, even if the upper echelon politicians catch on and have to show their ass, the smart and prudent NCO will take his ass-chewing, and then lament the situation for at least 6, or maybe even 7 microseconds before moving on to the next molehill.
I don’t lose too much sleep worrying about 0-6 officers and above. In my twenty year Air Force career, I can count on one hand the number of what I would classify as “superb” O-6’s that I served under. If you think they’re simply marvelous while on active duty, wait until you have deal with them when they become high muckity-muck contractors or high ranking government civilians. And just when you though stupidity had reached it’s apex!
“Having said all of that, even if the upper echelon politicians catch on and have to show their ass, the smart and prudent NCO will take his ass-chewing, and then lament the situation for at least 6, or maybe even 7 microseconds before moving on to the next molehill.”
On target, lazy-dog.
One of my (female) cousins is retired Air Force (Lt. Col.), and as leftist as it gets. She too worked as an “intelligence analyst” in the Pentagon, post retirement. Her dad retired as a Lt. Col. (Army), so she has never in her life been off the taxpayer tit since conception.
I suspect todays war-fighters for the Air Force are being grown watching the screens of video games.
“Private rooms and hotel quality food is not the same as Army or Marine Barracks life.”
No kidding! In Vietnam they (USAF) had concrete barracks with air conditioners poking out of each window, we (Army) had 2x4 huts with screen windows. In Hawaii we had mess hall slop, so we went to Wheeler AFB to eat in style.
I have a feeling this difference exists today.
“For the Chair Force a hardship deployment is billeting in a Holiday Inn where the TV has no remote. When they build an air base the first thing they build is the golf course, then the Officer’s Club, then they requisition more funds for a runway. There are more.”
‘You know, life is full of opportunities and choices. Why didn’t you go and talk to an Air Force recruiter? I had my next door neighbor’s kid talked into joining the Air Force, and then he went and talked to an ex-Army blockhead… next thing you know, he hates his life now that he’s a Private in the Army, and he can’t wait to get the hell out. Don’t get me wrong, my dad was 20-year retired Army (decorated Korean and Vietnam Wars), I grew up in the environment and fully respect what the Army is and why it’s necessary… but it was my dad that persuaded me to join the Air Force. He told me I was much too smart to do something as dumb as joining the Army (and by extension, the Marines) and that it would be a total waste of a good mind and talent. No one in the history of mankind was ever more on target with an assessment!
Yes it is. Better chance they'll be on our side.
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