Afghanistan proves our failed generals no longer care about winning

NY Post ^ | August 21, 2021 | Michael Walsh

[DesertRhino]

“In World War I, the American Commander “Black Jack” Pershing ignored British and French insistence that his men serve in a supporting role. “

They wanted then to be used as replacements piecemeal to serve under they abysmal British and French generals.

[DesertRhino]

Utterly immoral, and not supported by the facts. The experienced British generals gave us late 1917 Ypres and other battles such as Flanders in 1918 that killed well over a quarter million allies at a whack while barely changing the lines from 1915.

British Generals “experience” was feeding soldiers into a meat grinder and being feted as heroes.

[larrytown]

You’re speaking of ‘generals’, and I’m talking about where the troops were deployed at - ie., integrated with experienced UNITS, and being able to take advantage of that knowledge.

Glorification of generals is a bad habit that has yielded no benefit and endless misery. The only reason they’re ‘feted as heroes’ is because they ended up on the ‘winning side’.

[Joe Boucher]

Many years ago I worked at the Pentagon in Communications.
Way too many self important “generals” even then.
Worthless lot and I am sure there are more of the stoopids now.

[Bishop_Malachi]

“During the Civil War, Lincoln cycled through general after general until he found Ulysses S. Grant, who frequently rejected his commander in chief’s tactical suggestions, for which Lincoln was ultimately grateful.”

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Huge difference though...Lincoln wanted people who WOULD fight. All of the administrations from Bush jr. forward were more concerned with policing than a ruthless subjugation of the Taliban.

For the record I did not (nor do) support a nation building project in Afghanistan, but it should have been used temporarily as a platform to kill Bin-Laden and nothing else. We spent 20 years there because we thought we could put it on the path to becoming post-war Germany or Japan....utter foolishness.

[vpintheak]

They are all woke, all the time. Men without chests.

[indthkr]

Most people operating in bureaucracies will do what they have to
do to KEEP their jobs, not necessarily properly DO their jobs.

[Harpotoo]

It’s not that they don’t care it’s that they don’t know how!

[GOPJ]

By contrast, the Failure Generals in Iraq and Afghanistan such as David Petraeus, Jim Mattis, Stanley McChrystal, and Mark Milley .. have consistently failed ... fretting about “white rage” in the ranks.

Maybe the losers are worried white people are smart enough to see them for what they are...

[Badboo]

This is bullchit. American Generals do care and are winning. It's just that you don't like the side the are winning for because it is not the American side.

[lepton]

So, once we announced we were pulling out, the US contractors got out,

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More than that, they were blocked by our government, so they got out.

[Erik Latranyi]

Yes, the Afghan military begged the US not to pull the contractors or to conduct emergency training for their own personnel.

Biden refused.

[Erik Latranyi]

Yes, the Afghan military begged the US not to pull the contractors or to conduct emergency training for their own personnel.

Biden refused.

[lepton]

In essence, we grounded the Afghan Air Force, leaving the Afghan Army with no air cover

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An Army that had been trained in a way that required the air cover, and a variety of other assets in order to operate. It’s like guarding a camp and suddenly and silently removing the guard on the other half of the camp - you’re worse off than you’d be if you knew they weren’t there or if they’d never been there.

[lepton]

Well no. Even they thought it would take more than 11 days - though they were probably not taking into account all of the different ways the Biden Administration had us undercut the Afghanis.

[clearcarbon]

"Just last month, Milley was airily dismissing reports of an imminent Taliban victory in Afghanistan,"

America would be better served by replacing Milley with General Mills. At least Mills is smart enough to know he won't find any Lucky Charms in a pack of Froot Loops.

[GOPJ]

Damn Gen Hank Taylor won’t give us the number of AMERICANS WHO GOT OUT....

Just how many ‘people’... meaning afghans...

Hopefully a few Americans got out.