Remember when the Pentagon brass was appalled by the possibility that Trump would use the military in regard to the BLM riots in 2020? Now they are falling all over themselves in regard to The Freedom Convoy coming to DC. Our military is reduced to being a purely political tool. Peaceful demonstrators are probably the only opponents our woke military could currently vanquish.
Little wonder that military recruitment is down. No one wants to serve in a banana republic political military.
Our military is reduced to being a purely political tool
Technically the military has always been a political tool. It’s just that now a growing percentage of our political class sees us as the enemy the military must fight.
The military has always been under civilian authority, but the implementation of a woke agenda is unparalleled in American military history.
Kurt Schlicter has suggested the next Republican president cashier the entire flag-rank corps and invite a few to return.
“The military has always been under civilian authority”
I wonder if it still is, it’s just those civilians over there who see us civilians as the enemy.
The civilian authority is illegitimate after stealing the 2020 elections.
The media and academy will applaud when [not if] CCP Joe and the CCP-controlled junta invite PLA peacekeepers against American citizens.
It would be interesting to parachute the diversity, equity, and inclusion advocates in the Pentagon top brass into the Russian-Ukraine frontlines along with leaflets of Gen. Mark Milley’s reading list.
Today, there are two national political parties in America: The GOP and The Totalitarian.
Don, here’s the Tim Pool clip over this issue in case anybody wants a shorter 22 min clip instead of going through the whole 2hr conversation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HrGu9EFIGc
Nate, thanks for the clip.
GREG B +1
Good idea.
We could use video footage as a reminder to Americans in the future as to what happens when
we don’t live under banner of a Christian society following Christianity in all it’s forms.
I’m sure the frontliners would straighten them out…post haste.
“Kurt Schlicter has suggested the next Republican president cashier the entire flag-rank corps and invite a few to return.”
Kurt must be a pretty smart dude, since he agrees with me. 🙂
Doing what he suggests is, IIRC, essentially what Obama Himself did, albeit not all at once. (He used that “all at once” purge for the sitting U.S. Attorneys nationwide.) Time to reverse that pendulum if we can avoid another steal in 2024.
Doing what he suggests is, IIRC, essentially what Obama Himself did, albeit not all at once. (He used that “all at once” purge for the sitting U.S. Attorneys nationwide.) Time to reverse that pendulum if we can avoid another steal in 2024.
Clinton fired all of the US Attorneys en bloc in 1993. I don’t recall Obama doing so. As for the flag ranks, I doubt Obama’s decision-making was ever that granular. There are about 530 flag-rank officers. The standard retirement age is 62, though you can be asked to remain an additional two years. I believe the rule in general in the service is one is allowed four years in a given rank, after which one must depart the service if one is not approved for a promotion. If I’m not mistaken, rank x+1 commonly has about half the billets you find in rank x, so that over a quadrennial cycle about half in a given rank will separate from the service in lieu of being promoted. Pretty much everyone who was at the end of 2008 in the 3-star and 4-star ranks would have retired in the ordinary course of events, so it was a matter of promoting people from the ranks of Lt. Colonel and above who were ‘sound’ rather than competent. Interestingly, Obama had two Secretaries of Defense who one might imagine would provide some resistance to such a project.
When the whole Spenser Rapone scandal erupted, you had officers and retired military making commentary about the decay of discipline at West Point. I remember scrounging around for biographical information about key officials there and it seemed as if the institutional culture there began to rot some time before Obama took office, perhaps around 2004. I cannot help but suspect that the military’s stupidities are just one venue where the general stupidity of our professional-managerial class manifests itself.