Yeah - incentivized to get as political as possible as early as possible.
We are retiring thousands of our military,voluntarily and involuntarily,and we are replacing them with Mexican illegal aliens.
There fixed that problem
Every organization has a sclerotic bureaucracy. The military in no exception.
Sounds like a good idea to me
The big issue is the WH controls every aspect and the Brass are still fighting the last war they fought. Fighting Terrorism is a new ball game.
And the WH STUPID ROE’s are getting our men and women now KIA or maimed for life. With crappy gov’t health care.
Patton was 60.
Pretty well kills that guy’s argument.
A Frenchman apparently without any military experience at that.
Gory mistakenly believes that high-level decisions about limitations and ROEs are decided by uniformed officers. Not since the Korean War has that been so in America. Civilian political appointees make those decisions.
TC
“A Frenchman giving advice to the US Army.”
Snicker, snicker.
Douglas MacArthur was in his 60s during WWII and 70s during the Korean war. Chester W. Nimitz was 55 at the start of WWII. There were several Colonels and Generals in their 20s on both sides of the Northern War of Aggression.
Just sayin...
In the case of WWII such a policy would have put Patton, MacArthur, and Eisenhower (ages 56, 61, and 51 respectively in late 1941) on their sofas in retirement. There are no doubt many examples of generals who were past their prime after fifty, if they ever had a prime at all, whose lack of energy and stodgy ways got men killed and battles lost. But making a certain age a blanket cutoff date for, well almost anything, is absurd.
Politicians shuld have the same, if not 4 year max
Good point, lets get rid of experience and maturity. And if as he says we have the best military in the world, which we do in spite of Obama trying to destroy it and turn it into a left wing social lab, why make the changes he suggests? We like to say in the Army, if its not broken, don’t try to fix it. Now, back to France sir, try your ideas there.
I give you two words to refute the premise: Stormin’ Norman
George Patton 11 Nov 1885 59 at ETO surrender
Dwight Eisenhower 14 Oct 1890 54 at ETO surrender
Ulysses Grant 27 Apr 1822 43 at Appomattox
George Custer 2 Dec 1839 37 at Little Bighorn
Robert E Lee 19 Jan 1807 58 at Appomattox
Arthur Wellesley 1 May 1769 46 at Waterloo
Charles Gordon 28 Jan 1833 51 at Khartoum, younger in China wars
Erwin Rommel 15 Nov 1891 52 at time of 'suicide'
I suspect that we have a fundamental division between tactics, strategy, and logistics.
Fixed it...
That is a natural consequence of an explosion in the size of his army for war, especially with the fact that many of the older officers were royalists who were removed or even killed by the French Revolution. We could have a much younger officer corps if Obama had any who had voted Republican guillotined.
I wonder what the average age of a Russian general in WW II was after Stalin's pre-war purges.
Not only that, but non-military trying to tell the military anything.
How about mandate Congresscritters retire by 55? That includes senators.
I knew we were in serious trouble when the memorandum came out stating that it wasn’t fair to evaluate a Soldier based on his performance during combat. What, then, should you use to evaluate a Soldier?