Marshall Dixon

Following in no way means agreement. I block everyone I don’t follow, my posting is for my personal amusement

[Marshall Dixon @60_healey]

@RealEmirHan Oh so David Niven Peter Sellers 1967 Casino Royale sendup of the Bond movie didn’t happen or Dean Martin’s four 60’s Matt Helm send ups of spy movies. Or maybe the over the James Coburn two movies as Flint.

Bond movies actually became more like those sendups

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@ChrisWest41563 @EchoesofWarYT @VoicesofWW2 It’s a significant sub story in the 1976 movie Midway he was played by Hal Holbrook who was pretty well known actor at the time. I believe Midway was pretty popular movie with Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda

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@CynicalPublius @infantrydort @EverywhereRoyIs Because the queen supports her King, the one with the big stick

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@AFP Isn’t he most famous for playing a gigolo and an oligarch who picks up a a prostitute off the street

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@shashj @infantrydort Marshall used the press as a protection against the political interference protecting the entrenched interwar system

That clearly is not possible strategy today, the press is clearly in favor of a system that elevates more than just martial abilities in the officer corps

[Marshall Dixon @60_healey]

@shashj Gen Marshall removed officer because of the failed interwar period promotion process that favored seniority over martial ability and disfavored aggressiveness

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@ARRDunbar @ArnoldBogis @RadioFreeTom I’ll be a bit clearer about Fredendall, Marshall wasn’t prevented from culling Fredendall they were actually friends and Marshall recommended Fredendall for Torch. But Fredendall had Washington aggressiveness not so much in action unless specifically ordered to action

[Marshall Dixon @60_healey]

@ARRDunbar @ArnoldBogis @RadioFreeTom Marshall because of his assignments had a much better handle on the composition of the officers than Patton did in ‘39-‘40

Fredendall was 60 at time if Kasserine and should have been culled by Marshall but had spent the years before’39 in DC and was protected

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@TribbleIndustr1 @infantrydort This Marshall Plan?
https://t.co/heuXmtM3Yo

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@RonMann19 @ZannSuz There’s a bit of a difference between driving F-350 Super Duty Crew Cab and a Chevy Equinox

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@RadioFreeTom @ARRDunbar @ArnoldBogis Dude the problem Marshall was fixing was the promotion system which at the time focused on seniority which is why he basically relived those over 50

Today the problem isn’t promotion simply because of seniority it’s for other than …

[Marshall Dixon @60_healey]

@ARRDunbar @ArnoldBogis @RadioFreeTom That’s only because Patton was one of the few officers in his age group that Gen Marshall made it through

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@TimTakeMFT @infantrydort Read military history please, those promoted during peace time are never in the main those that succeeded during war.

Why because militaries highlight different ‘merits’ when the military isn’t doing what it exists to do

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@TribbleIndustr1 @infantrydort Just because I’m unspiringly pedantic about that name.
Marshal is the title,
Marshall is the name.
The US military has never used Marshal as a military title

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@Rokeniswatching @chang_joe69119 @infantrydort https://t.co/tH3fP9697y

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@DirkBelig @baseballcrank That say quite a bit more about that segments ability to be propagandize than anything about trump

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@JimLaPorta It might be an ethical dilemma for a journalist who actually presents a real picture of events without story selection and framing being filtered through their personal world view

Mike Wallace was never an example of that

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@gg2dylan @fOx1257067 @Gitmo99 It’s basically on Yale university’s campus

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@laraynus @TonySeruga Because there were no trees with limbs in the protester permitted area

Why oh because since before the country was founded nearly every significant political protests had in one form or other some hung in effigy or a gallows going back to the stamp act protests