Posted on 09/30/2022 7:25:42 PM PDT by AndyJackson
Well I can explain it. PTSD from walking across Lafayette Plaza to visit a church in the company of Trump after the National Guard put down a riot and the fire department put out a fire.
“The next administration’s top priority must be a dramatic reduction in the four-star overhead”
IMHO, it is a valid argument that the US military has become needlessly top heavy to the point of redundancy.
Wish these guys would give their take on the ‘Woke’ Army/Military.
‘The Atlantic’ came out with a jibberish article pretty much asserting that a ‘Woke Army/Military’ is the bestest kind of army/military (and the military knuckleheads’ wonder why they have a dramatic drop in recruitment across all services and within all military academies in this country). Go figure.
“What Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson Don’t Understand About War”
https://archive.ph/LoSqM#selection-539.0-539.59
The Atlantic. Where gibberish is decanted into brandy bottles and fermented to the point of foul treason then poured into leftist society’s Waterford crystal and drunk with relish by the Leftist Elite.
A fine rag seven decades ago — now suited for bird cage trays.
Agreed. Did however get a chuckle out the article though and they way they were framing it.
That was an interesting read.
Military is too top-heavy. Never really realized that, but it always did seem a bit odd that so many “generals” exist at all. I didn’t know much but even the Pentagon (not meant to be so) implies lots of “brass”. Have to have plenty to justify a building that big.
We now have a military of mediocrity at best. It no longer attracts achievers and a portion of the best and brightest. None of them in their right minds will put up with the woke bull shit that now permeates the military.
For example, the Naval Post Graduate School supposedly attracts the best and brightest. You could not tell it by the insipid questions asked by this group during and at the end of this lecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWyhKobyM68
DEI, ESG, green and equity do not win wars, they lose wars. That is exactly what I and many military people expect to happen.
I doubt it matters though. I believe we will have been destroyed from within soon if that die is not already cast.
I think a 50% reduction in the number of Flag Officers would enhance the military’s effectiveness. Get rid of the useless overhead that justifies its existence by coming up with more useless crap.
Got all sorts of Brownie Points for "reducing expenditures" but we'd lose the war.
guarantee you'll blow chunks.
I understood that many “generals” were given the promotion to a one star, with the idea that they would retire with higher benefits. It seems that not all retired quickly ...
With the chaos caused by the Obama regime, lots of new “generals” were created to promote loyalists.
And under Bush, lots of new “generals” from the entire WOT.
IIRC, we still have fewer generals than Russia or NK, on a per capita basis.
Though I understand that Russia is learning the lessons of top heavy leadership the hard way.
We’re screwed
No problem! We need to purge the senior ranks of the military anyway. All the wokeratti need to be gotten rid of. I’m talking everybody O5 and up needs to be looked at closely and a whole bunch of them need to go. I expect Ring Knockers will take the brunt of it - the academies having been corrupted a while ago.
Then once a significant portion of them are gone, just abolish their positions. The title inflation is ridiculous.
Oh, and we need to pass laws that bar retired military officers from being employed by a defense contractor for 10-20 years after their retirement, minimum.
If Congress and the white house ever swing right, the Pentagon will need a blizzard of pink slips.
He looks more like Macgregor in that photoshopped image than himself.
We're lucky to have good generals now.
A perfect example of the old saying, “those who can’t do, teach”. What a load of bullschiff this clown is slinging.
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