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Danny Huckabee's avatar

If we get into a shooting war directly with the Russians and/or the Chinese, it's going to be officers like Milley making life and death decisions. The fact that Obama in all 3 of his administrations has placed greater value on diversity and political allegiance in the officer corps selection rather than competence is going to result in those officers being black, latino, native American, white female, gay, lesbian, transvestite, or some other oppressed group, with "D" by their names. Competency is not required. So, that may very well place us into the same situation as the Red Army in 1939, after Stalin had fired or excecuted almost the entire officer corps of the all Soviet services, so that he had yes men and women making the tactical, and sometimes, strategic decisions, for their fight against their fellow socialists, the national socialists. And how did that go for the Soviets.

God help us and pray for the Republic.

Danny Huckabee

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Randy Farnum's avatar

I never served in the military but my father did (1943 to 1963) and that formed a lot of the person I am. The military is all about “chain of command” until it isn’t convenient or doesn’t suit their needs.

The top levels of the military have always been political but, it seems to me, because they knew that’s what they needed to be in order to obtain the military objectives of defending the country. Today they are full on woke from Milley wanting to know about “white rage” to the CNO defending gay “spoken word” events on our war ships.

The way that our political and military leaders pissed on the twenty years of sacrifice by our uniformed soldiers was disgusting and disgraceful.

Not a single military leader had the integrity and self respect to stand up and state that the operational plan for retreat out of Afghanistan was rational or defensible from a military standpoint and publicly state so and that they wouldn’t have their name be associated with it tells you all you need to know about today’s military.

The only officer held accountable for the shit show that was Kabul was a USMC Lt. Col. infantry commander who had the courage to say the emperor had no clothes. For that he was put into the brig, had his sanity questioned and was booted out of the service after seventeen years of faithful service.

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