[glorgau]

Augean Stables - get rid of half of the Admirals and Generals.

[dynachrome]

The one that wears a dog mask should be cashiered and sent to the brig.

[ducttape45]

Decline of Senior Officer Integrity

I can personally vouch for this. I saw it during my time in the military, and I saw it at the base I worked at until my retirement last year. Granted, yes, there are still many officers who are very principled and have integrity, but they are getting fewer and fewer in numbers.

[MinorityRepublican]

The purge had a significant effect on German decision making in World War II: many German generals opposed an invasion of Russia, but Hitler disagreed, arguing that the Red Army was less effective after its intellectual leadership had been eliminated in the purge.

[MV=PY]

"In short, it is past time for senior officers to forego their increasing addiction to the power opiate of clever narratives and work to present full and balanced representations of the issues at hand. Absent immediate internal reform by the Department of Defense, civilian leaders will increasingly have to turn, just as they have with other federal agencies, to independent investigations to gain a more complete understanding of national security issues."

IMHO is not possible to turn a dishonest adult into an honest one. This can only be fixed by ridding the military leadership of those who are unable or unwilling to present the unvarnished truth.

A culture that rewards dishonest behavior is very difficult to fix.

Whatever happened to "when in doubt, do the right thing?

[Robert DeLong]

And so quickly, that is the truly frightening aspect of that.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

This has been going on for over 20 years. Just before 2000 they did a survey at Leavenworth (CGSC) and one of the results was that these majors felt senior leaders would run them over with a truck to further their careers.

Shinseki, the Army COS took action by bitching out the majors.

[Leaning Right]

I dunno. Maybe ol’ Ben Franklin was right. Franklin opposed the creation of military academies. He said America did not need a military elite.

Franklin instead suggested that all our future officers be trained at colleges, something like today’s ROTC.

[Chode]

Perfumed Prince’s in the wire...

[Linda Frances]

Don Bacon Nebraska. My husband worked with him at stratcom. Said had no integrity. Never challenged authority when he knew they were wrong. Upper level yes man. Would never make hard decisions. Did what he was told.

[maddog55]

Leadership is dead, replaced by woke management of a non-gender specific group of incapable warfighting things.

[linMcHlp]

Navy report on USS Bonhomme Richard fire finds sweeping failures

Burned up, dockside, San Diego, surrounded by fire fighting resources and several hundred men and women . . . but also many frocked ego's.

A lost opportunity for educating firefighters - with a ship not in combat - a relic that should have been towed down the bay and beached, for future fire-fighting training.

The U.S. could double the number of ships - that results in maybe 10 more that "somehow manage to be well-built" . . . but the U.S. cannot increase military leaders who are NOT political officers constantly fighting over the definitions:

What is a man?

What is a woman?