Trump needs to listen to his Generals on many issues. Just because generals have a differing view on war matters (which I’d trust to a general over any president and politician) doesn’t make that general liberal. It make the general either right or wrong and the only way one finds that out is if the plan is stuck to. Not everyone that may disagree with the president on certain matters is an automatic liberal
Mattis waited too long, he wanted Trump to bend to his will not the other way around. Now he has finally and mercifully resigned I am happy. Mattis was a POS .
Your average general might be the worst person on the planet when it comes to determining whether or not that war is a good idea.
We gain nothing militarily by being there. Just expensive bullshit. We are not going to win hearts and minds or any other such caca. We need to get the hell out. Yes, I was an Army officer.
You listen to the generals to a point. The joint chiefs in the Vietnam era and those of today have effed up the wars they were in and didn’t take stands they needed to take. A land war of attrition in Asia was insanity and nation building and spreading democracy in the middle east without trying to reform or eliminate islam is like pissing in the wind. If what they are saying is not in the strategic interest of the USA but in the interest of the globalist/NATO Trump needs to consider other options.
The current crop of military leaders and politicians have had us in perpetual war since 1991 in the middle east. With Reagan his use of the military was very limited, and in America’s interest.
Trump needs to go down the food chain and bring up some Ike’s, Nimitz, and Marshall’s. Rand Paul is a kook on foreign policy he swings too far too total isolationism, but mostly what is out there in the military brass go the other direction. The Post-WWII world order is dying. Trump needs someone in DOD thinking and looking forward but but not forgetting the mistakes of the past. Gingrich has possibilities, he presents big and drastic ideals but at times reverts to the status-quo.
Listen yes. Follow their advice on tactics, yes. But generals get no seat at the table when it is time to decide IF we should be at war.
That is overstepping their bounds