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Travis, please see Nick Danger's post #7 above (with which I totally agree), and reconsider.

You know very well that success in war requires the relief of many high level REMFs who have achieved their positions of command under peacetime conditions, using inside the beltway skills that are a detriment on the battlefield. This was true in 1861, it was true in 1917, and it was most certainly true in 1941-42.

In 1950 we still had a few experienced combat commanders to send to ROK. The failure to replace political commanders in 1965 with real soldiers was a catastrophe from which we have barely recovered.

I can see you thinking Bacevich should not publish at a time like this (I don't agree, but I can see it).

But do you really think he's wrong? What do you think you had to do to get a third or fourth star from Cohen and Clinton? What sort of a man do you think you had to be?

"What do you think you had to do to get a third or fourth star from Cohen and Clinton? What sort of a man do you think you had to be?"

Exactly.

Uncle Bill - do you or others have a link to the story about a group of military top brass who threatened to resign en masse to protest certain Clinton actions (or maybe just to protest his treacheries en masse)? I seem to remember that these generals were told - oh no you won't - and they were all removed from their positions BEFORE they had the opportunity to go public and do the mass resignation action.

If that story was just a part of the nightmare of the Clinton years - my apologies. But, I do remember reading it - here of course.

If it's true - President Bush could start his search for military leaders he needs right now among that group perahps.

"What do you think you had to do to get a third or fourth star from Cohen and Clinton? What sort of a man do you think you had to be?"

Exactly.

Uncle Bill - do you or others have a link to the story about a group of military top brass who threatened to resign en masse to protest certain Clinton actions (or maybe just to protest his treacheries en masse)? I seem to remember that these generals were told - oh no you won't - and they were all removed from their positions BEFORE they had the opportunity to go public and do the mass resignation action.

If that story was just a part of the nightmare of the Clinton years - my apologies. But, I do remember reading it - here of course.

If it's true - President Bush could start his search for military leaders he needs right now among that group perahps.