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What's going on with our generals?

Monday, September 20, 2021 7:09

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Silverfiddle Rant!

General Milley Continues to Take Heat…

“Milley’s actions show that America’s top military officers have reached another level of delusion. They fancy themselves a new praetorian guard to protect the nation.” (Deep State – Deep Trouble)

Much is being made of Milley’s supposed usurpation of power and quiet subversion of President Trump’s direction on Syria and Afghanistan, phone calls assuring Chinese generals he would warn them before we attack them, and holding a secret cabal of generals to seize ultimate control of our nuclear arsenal.

While I think the rhetoric is a little much, here is one summary Another one demands Gen. Milley must go for subverting of civilian control of the military

This article says Milley made the call to China at SecDef Esper’s request. If true, that means Milley did nothing wrong by making that phone call. He was a good soldier obeying orders of the civilians appointed over him.

By all accounts, General Milley was a heroic soldier on the battlefield and many who served under him praised his leadership as a battalion commander when he was a lieutenant colonel.

Something has gone wrong since then…

Desert Storm tank commander H. R. McMaster (he won a Silver Star for his brilliant leadership in a decisive battle) wrote a book in 1997, Dereliction of Duty, making the case…

“that during the 1960s, the Joint Chiefs of Staff betrayed their constitutional duties by failing to provide their honest military judgment to President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara as they plunged into the quagmire of Vietnam. When McMaster’s book was published in 1997, during the Clinton administration, Gen. Hugh Shelton, then the JCS chairman, ordered all his service chiefs and commanders to read it and follow its lessons to the letter—to express disagreements to their superiors, even at the risk of getting yelled at.” (The Revolt against Donald Rumsfeld)

Lt Gen (Ret) McMaster has been lauded by leaders and peers as the kind of innovative thinker we need in the flag officer ranks. His book has been required reading in the officer ranks.

Mackubin Owens made an opposing case back in 2006, mounting a defense of Rumsfeld and civilian control of the military.

The Ghost of Don Rumsfeld

I caught Hugh Hewett on the way to work a few days ago. Retired Admiral James Stavridis was singing Milley’s praises and bragging about appointing him to brief Rumsfeld back when Stavridus was an admiral at the Pentagon and Milley was a Colonel serving under him. He gushed over Milley, calling him stubborn, highly intelligent and brave, one of the few officers able to go one-on-one with with Rumsfeld. The admiral was essentially lauding Milley’s high-level bureaucratic skills, and that is when it hit me…

What’s “wrong” with Milley is what went “wrong” with warrior generals Franks, McChrystal, Petraeus and so many other flag officers of their generation: Rummy tainted and broke them.

I am not damning those men. They did the best they could with what the civilians handed them. Whether at one point or another they should have thrown their stars on the table is not an easy judgment, but once you’ve been made to eat shit and like it, or once you have been “made,” as in a mafia made man, justification mechanisms must kick in. It’s human nature.

Some men did push back: Generals Shinseki and Newbold while they were still on active duty, and Generals Zinni and Eaton after retirement.

So, we are left with an age old question: What do senior generals do when handed an impossible mission cooked up by the ignorant fools appointed over them?

Source: http://alwaysonwatch3.blogspot.com/2021/09/whats-going-on-with-our-generals.html

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