Posted on 11/18/2024 5:43:17 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Trump hired Hegseth to channel George Patton and apply a jump boot to the buttocks of our deadweight military along with an injection of combat arms leadership and attitude.
The combat arms are different than the other branches of the Army. In the combat arms – particularly Infantry, Armor/Cavalry, and Special Forces – extremely aggressive and uncompromising leadership is the standard. After all, these are the folks who close with the enemy and kill them. There’s talk about how Pete Hegseth will need to win over the DoD bureaucracy, but that’s not what combat arms officers like Hegseth do. He’s not going to be about winning over bureaucrats and flag officers. Commanders command...
The combat arms is a land of wolves, people. It’s all predators. And you better bring a whip and a chair because they will eat you alive. Of course, the Pentagon is a land of wolves too, but these are fat, toothless wolves more concerned with their petty prerogatives and pending pensions than with accomplishing the mission. In the combat arms, if you show weakness, if you show hesitation or doubt, your men are going to look at you, shake their heads... ...
Now, they are going to erect obstacles and set traps for him, but as a combat arms officer, he understands how to defeat them through fire and maneuver.
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Pete Hegseth is being sent to the Pentagon not to manage but to lead. As a combat arms officer, he has a unique ability to do that.
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Pete Hegseth must come in with a crack team of loyal warriors who know what right looks like and have a commission to root out the rot. They can spread out across the military map and start fixing what’s wrong if they have his backing.
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When I examine how the DOD was run under Austin and others, the wails and whines of “He is unqualified” fall on my deaf ears. I have seen the horrible damage to human life and military readiness that happens on the watch of someone like Austin, and I will tell these people they can kiss my ass.
I am tired of elitist pieces of crap like Austin et al who, because of their DIE blindness, don’t know their ass from their elbow.
I am told that the hatred that developed between the Commander in Chief and the perfumed princes such as Mattis, Kelly, and Milley developed because when Trump was evaluating what to do in Afghanistan, he brought in a large group of enlisted personnel to get their views on what we were doing, he didn’t allow any officers in the meeting, and made sure they knew that the proceedings were to be kept completely confidential, because he didn’t want to hear accounts filtered through the prism of the Perfumed Princes. He wanted to hear it straight, and Kelly, Milley, and others took exception to it.
I found that quite interesting.
And get the dang lawyers out of the picture when troops are in harms way.
It’s ridiculous for a combat troop in the thick of things having to ask some damned lawyer if they can put a magazine in their rifles and chamber a round. You put the responsibility on the senior member of the detachment. He makes the decisions as he is best qualified to make them. Then you back up his decision and don’t second guess.
Sec Def is a unique position in the it heads up both a military and huge civilian component. Both are instrumental in achieving mission readiness and taking the military into the future but each is treated differently for obvious reasons. Hopefully Pete can bring out the best in both elements. I also disagree with Schlichter on one thing. Procurement is a problem, a big problem. As weapons systems age, sustaining them becomes a huge challenge and without adequate procurement dollars for new systems or sustainment dollars to repair old systems, keeping up readiness can suffer.
Infantry - the Queen of Battle.
The ongoing war in Ukraine and Israel undeniably shows that future wars will depend on lots and lots and lots of Vitamin D.....Drones
Troops with laptops and drone controllers will do the fighting.
You can buy thousands of drones for the price of a 5th generation fighter.
They are already doing a lot of the fighting in the First Drone War in Ukraine.
nttawwt
A lot of the complaints in this thread are related to putting ground troops into areas where there is no compelling national interest to be there.
If an infantry unit needs to check with the lawyers before defending themselves…we should not be there.
And…if we are putting infantry in an area merely to “defend”, then we need to consider why we are there.
I know a drone pilot in Israel. He keeps video on his phone of the strikes he called in.
He also has one of the most tricked out M4s anyone has ever seen. I think he took a basic Colt, and replaced almost everything but the receiver. If you have some cash or connections, the IDF seems to turn a blind eye to you improving any of your kit.
America needs THIS Pete as head of the military.
The other Pete is needed at home to breast feed her children.
I agree with almost all of this.
The GOs you refer to proved to be extremely myopic. That shortsightedness shows up in doctrine.
I caught that.
Yup,
The most powerful piece on the chessboard.
# 1, Show who’s BOSS, all renamed Forts will revert to their previous names ASAP. Anyone who complains get rid of them.
Screw with a bull and get the horns. Obama fired a lot of seasoned military. Trump should send a clear message, and begin with the biggest bullies.
That Pete was in line for Foggy Bottom.
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