Military Malfeasance

Great story. Yeah, Lemay was the man. Let's throw Billy Mitchell in there as well, another fine man that the upper echelons sacrificed because of their incompetence being pointed out to them. Can't have that.

Yes, a couple of these videos were on some news consolidating sites. 70,000 people at West Virginia seemed to be in unison. Must be some kind of Guinness World Record. Maybe that's why the bum Joe Manchin appears to be applying the brakes to Biden's agenda. 

My sentiments exactly!

In 1776 this was the American perception of English tactics in North America. The communication lapse between Europe and America, often as much as 6 weeks or longer, left British commanders stuck with policy decisions that were not relevant. 


Not a surprise all military decisions are now political first and mission centered last. It's not the size of the bureaucracy but wether the bureaucracy works for the commanders in the field. 


Same answer as #2

There was a short period 1965 (Hal Moore in the IDrang) to January 1968(TET) when Army and Marine battalions were given greater autonomy to find and kill the enemy. Thus, Westmoreland could accurately say the war was almost won. The media and the jellyfish in DC were afraid to actually fight the war.


The only really important question is where is the enemy and how do I kill him, and a power point never killed anyone although I have prayed for death sitting through some of them. Perhaps if we could just get the enemy to watch our power points?

This is a problem my son has often mentioned. The unit of the Golan Brigade I fought with in 73 the officers gave orders and often listened to the NCOs on tactics. This was something marines had gotten away from.  We used to call it problem solving.

The solutions he offers are valid and need be implemented. However, unless and until the military either grows up and tells our political leadership to quit interfering in operations there will not be much in the way of change. Or the only other method of change is a major war, where the iron asshole bastards are either fired or fired upon by their own troops. 

I got my rimshot machine fixed.

As I read the piece, the author blames the in-grown attitude/culture of the military as much as he does the politicians. I think he is correct. 

I do agree with you that it will probably take a big war for any of this to change, and I'm not so sure a big war would turn out well for us. 

The American way of war is simply to throw masses of material at a problem. That this doesn't always work has been proven over the last 60 years. Scenes from a couple of war movies hint at this. The first is from "A Bridge Too Far" when SS Obergruppenfuehrer Wilhelm Bittrich, played by Maximilian Schell looks up at the hundreds of planes flying past and says something like, "If I only had a part of this equipment at my command, I could win the war."   The second is "The Young Lions" when at the end of the movie Montgomery Cliff and Marlon Brando encounter each other and Cliff throws hand grenades  at Brando and kills him. Before Brando dies he shakes his head and says something about Americans being less than subtle. In effect, having little skill and using hammers to kill ants. The scene may be in the book.  Don't hold hold me to exact quotes. I am just expressing the mood which I recall. 

With all due respect to those who fought in WWII, I will again say that what won the war was Soviet lives (the majority of dead were not Russian) and American logistics. 

Lt. Col. Scheller is back. Although his demeanor in this video is calm, what says he is going to do will bring about an uproar.

General McKenzie must be held accountable  

Just a couple of days ago, this scoundrel McKenzie came out and "sorrowfully" admitted that "they" had vaporized and innocent man and family in retaliation against the suicide bomber attack in which 13 American military members were killed. 

From the beginning, it was clear that the "strike" was done for political/optical purposes so as to show the American public the military/Biden were in control and doing something.  They lied about hitting an Al-Qaeda bigwig and most people seemed to know it. 

This criminal order had to go through McKenzie and he should be held accountable. 

Oops, we killed seven children who we said were terrorists

Well, best of luck to Lt Col Scheller. But I don’t think he’s going to get very far because he’s not a particularly good speaker. He doesn’t even get to a specific point until about 7 minutes into his presentation. He needs assistance if he’s going to make an impact. Maybe he will get that assistance.

Note: Did Trump fire any of these insubordinate or incompetent SOBs in the high command?