Posted on 07/21/2022 2:36:51 PM PDT by Rummyfan
I was there when the United States military was great, when it inspired fear instead of laughter, when it smashed whole armies in a hundred hours instead of letting a bunch of seventh-century freaks drive it out of a country that would have to work up to join the Third World. The American armed forces had a culture of winning then; it now has a culture of not only losing but of turning on its own, destroying itself through social justice nonsense, and rejecting the warrior ethos. Predictably, the normal, patriotic Americans who traditionally answer the call to the colors are refusing to sign onto an organization that hates them. Unless the boys, girls, and non-binaries of Santa Monica, the Hamptons, and the Gender Studies Department at Wellesley are going to enlist en masse to make up the growing recruiting/retention deficit, we need a military culture that is friendly to the traditional warrior pool of rural and middle America.
My new book, "We'll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America," talks about the pinnacle of American power and chronicles the collapse into the sorry state we are in today. It's a harrowing ride, but the good news is that our broken military culture can be fixed very quickly by the next based GOP president. In fact, it must be fixed – the defense of the nation is the federal government's number one responsibility – and it must be fixed first.
Fixing it is a key test of the next Republican president's ability to overhaul the entire federal bureaucracy. A quick fix of our military culture will put a check mark in the "win" column early on for the new administration and set the tone and tenor for the reform of the rest of the federal government...
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The next Republican president must heal the economy and secure the border.
Who ever it is who repairs the military must fire Milley immediately. He caused the disaster.
The next republican president is going to need to multitask.
Seems like we recently had someone that along with multitasking, could give back to his critics as good as he got from them.
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Border first.
No sovereignty, no nation.
What a mess. Milley promoted to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I think he meant that President Trump WILL fix the military when he wins in 2024.
The defense industrial complex is just salivating at the prospect of the next republican president filling up its bank accounts.
Maybe the best way of fixing the military is for the states to take the lead, let national guard and reserves hold the bulk of the force structure (closer to home and available for things like disaster recovery and riot control.), and without so many troops to justify so many flag officers, the problem starts to take care of itself through careful nominations and attrition.
Probably will never even be considered seriously, but I think it should.
It’s really bizarre to hear Schlichter brag about his days in the U.S. military … considering he was just a stooge for foreign/corporate interests.
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It isn’t just Milley. It’s a slew of senior military leaders. Some are going along with all the social justice nonsense, because they are simply following orders. They will revert to a proper readiness focus as soon as senior leaders are brought into line or fired. Other true believers will need purged.
It’s either fix the military — ideologically — or it will “fix” us ideologically. Money is secondary.
The next president needs to be another Reagan and fix both the economy and the military. Reagan didn’t have the FBI and CIA making stuff up about him to fuel investigation s and impeachment trials though. The next GOP president will probably have to go through all that unless it’s someone on their “allowed to be president” list.
Does that pool truly exist anymore? The youth of rural and middle America are not physically fit and has more than its share of drug addled brains. Another thought is that it took 14 years to transform the military into a social justice organization. Will 8 years be enough to undo the damage given bureaucratic inertia.
I hope I’m wrong, but it seems to me, we are building a military to fight a WW II type of battle except with much greater speed and accuracy of the weapons, when the next battle is likely to be something different.
I think we need a much bigger Navy that doesn’t depend so much on Carrier battle groups, especially if are going to fight China over Taiwan.
I’m not sure of our cyber or space weapons but certainly those 2 areas are the future.
I think missile defense is going to be huge, what that includes I’m not sure.
Just my 2 cents, certainly I’m not a defense expert.
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There is no money to fix military while social spending is out of control.
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No money required.
Just a judicious application of the UMCJ to the Academies and officers.
Start with muntinous milley.
UCMJ
( itchy trigger finger )
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