“Margaret Thatcher once quipped you could track the decline of the British Empire with the invention and use of the telephone. I guess she was implying Heretofore, commanders and viceroys in the field ran their territories free of meddling by the home office. Pretty much the same in WWII except for the onsight meddling later in the game as they began deciding the political ending for the war in Europe. By the time of Korea, we had the first instance of missions being run out of the White House which was more than expanded under Johnson in Vietnam. The results were disastrous.”
My snarky thought:
Politicians and bureaucrats MUST meddle to justify their existence. Maybe we’d be better off cutting all communications into combat theatres until the “last man standing” walks out and calls home.
We lost this one in DC.
Some people need skinned
America's decline could be attributed to Elisha Otis's invention and use of the elevator, which enabled unnaturally high density big cities. However, more fundamentally, it's leftism that rots everything to the core. Concrete cliff dwellers vote for leftism due to their shared concrete living style.