I’ll never shed a tear for a fired GWOT general. Most were self-serving swamp creatures who spent 20 years building personal brands while grabbing their ankles for Beltway neocons.
Time to accelerate promotions for the CGOs who actually did the fighting.
Good riddance.
Preach!!!!
Once upon a time, GOFOs were held in high esteem. Today, many would agree they’ve sold their souls and have put careers over people, becoming some of the most risk adverse, indecisive, self-righteous members in uniform. Their coordinated response during the Covid years is one such example.
The same people criticizing negotiations today spent twenty years defending a strategy that cost thousands of American lives, trillions of dollars, and ended with the Taliban back in power.
Forgive me if I don’t take lectures on “strength” from the architects of failure.
Absolute tragedy for this family as Major Robert Dee was killed in the recent B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base.
Robert was a loving husband and father as well as a faithful warrior of conscience. He was one of 231 signatories on the Declaration of Military Accountability.
In your generosity, please consider supporting the Dee family.
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The modern West spent thirty years promoting generals the way corporations select middle managers.
Every sharp edge was sanded down. Uncomfortable truth was softened. Men capable of creating positive friction in service of reality were quietly replaced by someone more “professional.”
Now many of these same men are retiring and discovering something remarkable:
A career spent avoiding confrontation does not prepare you for confrontation.
The moment they’re challenged they skip straight past argument and arrive at insult because they’ve spent their entire lives operating inside institutions where disagreement was managed rather than fought.
You cannot spend a generation draining every drop of interpersonal friction from an institution and then expect it to produce men capable of confronting reality.
The type of leaders who can’t confront you, the truth, or reality properly, are the kind of leaders who will lie about readiness and fully accept ideological conditioning in pursuit of promotion.
Why do people keep talking about ethics as if it’s some software package we forgot to install??
As if we can just add another block of instruction, another PowerPoint, another doctrine publication, and suddenly produce more ethical soldiers.
Most ethics are learned long before someone ever puts on a uniform. From the values of the nation itself.
The military can reinforce standards. It can teach discipline, explain the law of war, and provide guidance for difficult situations.
What it CANNOT do is rebuild a person’s moral foundation from scratch between motor pool Monday and a field exercise.
The academic class talks about ethics the way medieval alchemists talked about turning lead into gold.
They imagine some esoteric process far more powerful than reality.
It’s dented.
- (1) Colonel rescued in Iran
- (3) Planes lost ($120M-$200M)
The left loses their mind over the cost
- ($90B) dollars of equipment left behind in Afghanistan by Biden... no concerns from the left
These people are sick
@CalebNByrd Retired Air Force JAG here…taught Law of War and ROE while deployed and at the Air Force JAG School and in my professional opinion…no one cares what Vindman thinks.
These NYPD officers are heroes—like so many officers across the country who spring into action to save lives! They run toward the danger, not away. They do it every day. They put their lives on the line. They care about their communities. Even when their city leadership wants to defund them. Even when their city leadership doesn’t back them. Even when they don’t get a thank you. Well, I—and millions of other Americans—want to say THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU! @NYPDnews https://t.co/gMqwRUCTYw
Calling Radical Islam out for being a CULT doesn’t make you an “Islamophobe.” Radical Islamists chant “death to America” and would love to see every Christian and Jew murdered.
Under Sharia Law, if you are not a Muslim, you are the ENEMY.
Under Sharia Law, minorities are PERSECUTED.
Under Sharia Law, women are SOLD, RAPED, and TRAFFICKED.
Don’t believe me?? Read it for yourself!
Radical Islam is NOT compatible with the Constitution and has NO PLACE IN AMERICA. I won’t be silenced about this.