One of the things that is becoming sadly apparent is that the United States military is no longer fit for purpose. There is currently a war being waged against the people of the United States by some truly evil and despicable people and those people are allied with a small number of judges and are dedicated to overturning the will of the people as expressed in the last election. It is nothing less than a coup d'etat and the only reason it has been allowed to persist for as long as it has is because it is now clear that the military will almost certainly not follow the orders of the Civilian Commander-in-Chief.
The impact of this division that has been engineered by 100% of the men and women now wearing four stars and all of the officers who preceded them in that rank for the last 25 years is that the military is fundamentally unreliable. We know it is truly incompetent at the things that professional military forces routinely accomplish. They are unable to perform anything like reasonable and competent research and development leading to the design, development and construction of modern weapons and weapon systems.
They cannot wage war competently anywhere on earth. The incredible failures in the Air Force that saw a pack of men wander into a nuclear weapons magazine, pick up and carry out live nuclear weapons and adorn a B52 with them and then fly that aircraft to another Air Force base and nobody knew they had taken away nuclear weapons, left them unattended on the wings of a bomber far away and nobody was hung, drawn and quartered is kind of the military that we have today.
The debacle in Afghanistan showcased the idiocy and incompetence of officers selected not for their ability but for being toadies of the democrats and toadies of DIE is just the latest case in point. Every single officer involved in that debacle should have been terminated and sent to Leavenworth for a couple of decades. That was no rude military shock, that was basic in-your-face incompetence at every level.
The recent discarding of truly stupid officers in command positions for loss of confidence in their ability is just the lowest wave of the Terrible Great Wave that you can see if you step back far enough. The President was forced to reach out to find a retired 3 star general to nominate as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That screams, every other serving 3 and 4 star general is a useless and probably despicable toady of the left who would, like general Milley just casually commit treason by calling his communist Chinese counterpart and telling him that he would disobey the orders of the President.
The top ranks of the 5 services and the Coast Guard do need to be purged and when that happens it is also essential to purge every single member of the Senior Executive Service because if there is anyone even more dishonest and despicable than the 4 star generals and admirals, it is the hordes of jealous rice bowl guarding bureaucrats that are like a massive anchor on any and all change.
The upshot, when President Trump decides he has had enough of the Courts and their blatant usurpation of the rights and prerogatives reserved by the Constitution to the Executive Branch of our government, we can expect every Blue city to go up in flames and there are still good people who live in some of them who will need protection just as the Guard, the Army and the Reserves have protected them from Civil Unrest in the past and right now, nobody knows if those forces will follow orders or not.
Good job Bill Clinton, Obama and Biden and every one of you lickspittle politicians in uniform that have forced us to this point. You did that. You created a mush of lies and deceit and destroyed the unitary military mindset that had held this country safely at the core of its regard for over 200 years and all it took was you, your corrupt cronies at every level of government and the bureaucracy and ruthlessly purging the finest officers out of the military at the the 06 and 07 level.
That was another thing 30 years of naval service got me was duties in the Middle East, Far East and West Coast. I worked exclusively for officers that had eschewed the Pentagon tours and somehow still made it to the top back then to be CINCPAC, CINCPACFLT, COMUSNAVCENT, 3RD Fleet and the rest. You would not believe how different those admirals are from the ones serving today and over the last 20 years. It is night and day.
There may be a few that point out that the Navy is executing well in the Red Sea but that is not so much tribute to them and us as it is to the utter uselessness of the enemy. What does concern us is that we are expending our missiles at a significant rate and the production lines for some of them were shut down years ago and no longer exist. There is no production line rolling out scores of land attack munitions every month, much less the hundreds that would be needed in a real war. There is nothing like that at all.
We ate, sank, destroyed or gave away what we used to call the War Reserve materials. We also ended production of just about every form of ammunition, missile and bomb. Outside Destructors, I'd be surprised if we have so much as a single sea mine anywhere outside of a museum.
That and the sad state of the Fleet and the maintenance for that Fleet is a concern. Back when I was in we could fix just about anything onboard a ship. We had a level of spares that was in constant decline but I'd be surprised if spares exist outside of cannibalization now for many systems on our ships and the longer a ship stays in maintenance status the more likely it has been stripped of parts needed for operations elsewhere.
What I find most concerning is that the problems we face require highly motivated and ethical young people in large numbers and yet every single shiny new face is going to be received by the DIE hires of the previous administrations who now occupy every level of management and are infected with the woke and DIED mindset and who will resist any efforts to revitalize the military with every fiber of their weak being. I am not too sanguine about the up and coming officers who will be products of Academies and Colleges that don't prepare them to work unrelentingly and tirelessly to rebuild the military.
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In WW1 the US military it showed up late and only claimed victory after one year of participation after the German Army had effectively wiped out the French and most of the British forces. Same again in WW2 and it only won in Europe because the best of the German military exhausted itself in Russia. Effective air power? Nope. Daylight bombing was barely 10% effective. The Germans had a Norden bombsight and realized it was garbage. Meanwhile the Germans put the first operational jet fighter in the air and developed and deployed long range tactical missiles. Japan was just a matter of time so the US gets credit for that.
But nuking unarmed civilians in Japan and fire bombing in Dresden isn't really peer to peer combat now is it?
Korea - Fail
Vietnam - Fail
Bay of Pigs -Fail
Somali - Fail
Bosnian/Croatia - Fail
Afghanistan - Fail
Yemen - Failing
Iraq - Basically a failure
Niger - Fail
Syria - Fail
Anything since 2000 isn't actually a war, it's more just meddling in other peoples business while wasting US lives and tax payers money.
Just look at the Wikipedia page for wars involving the US from the 20th century. Not exactly a page to be bragging about when you read who they "won" against given the trillions of dollars spent to "safeguard America".
So please spare us the crocodile tears for a military who's only actual victory was against a few armed families in Waco Texas who, by the way, kicked ass on the AFT and FBI until a US Army tank rolled in. Well done!
You exhibit a common misunderstanding. A lot more people have it these days but it is still fictional rather than based on reality:
WWI was the last war of Kings and it was most certainly not our war. The Bund over here had almost as much chance of shifting us into the war on the side of the Germans as the English had of getting us in on their side. The Zimmerman telegram and the unrestricted U-boat warfare turned the trick and had us come in on the allied side.
German arms failed to win which gave the British time to impose a blockade on Germany that would see every German starve to death in 1919. There was no need to win by force of arms once the blockade was 100% effective and the men were at the front or dead/wounded.
WWII was even less our war and again we really didn't care. Make of that what you will but once again the idiots in Germany gooned us into being their enemy by the simple expedient of declaring war on the United States immediately after Pearl Harbor.
For Germany the war was over when the allied high command finally figured out that the one and only thing the Germans simply could not continue without was oil and cut off every drop of oil into the Reich. That alone was going to see Germany exterminated. It was largely done with air power. if not the air power you imagine. We stopped the oil and gas. That was all it took plus endless heaps of corpses out of the USSR. Consider now the other aspect to fighting a fight that nobody knows that you are fighting except you......Was Roosevelt willing to fight Germany to the last Russian? I rather think he was. He would at least until he had the Bomb and could use it to Stalin from taking all of Europe once Germany collapsed.
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Being tech savvy and POL/MIL stupid is an easy and common problem with tyrannies. They all seem to get it. The one thing Germany HAD TO HAVE to win was the ability to destroy our rear areas and distress the production of war machines. Even that would not have worked as witnessed by our own records from the Strategic Bombing Surveys in both Europe and Japan. They're online and make fascinating reading now.
People like to think, for some silly reason, that Total War is somehow new and more evil. Read some more history. War up to the Cold War was mostly all about refraining from destroying populations. Up until then war was all about destroying populations and extermination. The holocaust was not at all unique and you can find records of civilian destruction more ruthless than you can believe and that would give anyone nightmares. It was only as we practiced MAD that we started to fantasize that we could make war without harming the civilians and that led to:
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Korea - Fail Armistice and we got half the Peninsula. Not our war.
Vietnam - Fail Peace Treaty and American withdrawal. Not our war.
Bay of Pigs -Fail Not a war at all but a CIA covert failure. Not our war.
Somali - Fail A series of pointless battles in a failed State. Not our war.
Bosnian/Croatia - Fail So not our war.
Afghanistan - Fail From victory to total failure in 20 years of stupidity
Yemen - Failing Again, not our war.
Iraq - Basically a failure Same as Afghanistan. 14 years of victory to stupidity.
Niger - Fail Not our war and not a war.
Syria - Fail Not our war and not a war.
As General Butler wrote in his book we fought a lot of battles for a lot of pointless reasons that had nothing to do with our security or values. Iraq and Afghanistan were outgrowths of a direct attack on the USA and Iraq kind of followed the model left by George Washington at the outbreak of the Revolution. Washington was tired of the Indians always opening a wide open second front every time we got stuck into a war with a Continental Power and he decided this time to forestall it, which he did. A lot of our resources had been dedicated to Southern Watch and Northern Watch which were stupid outgrowths of ODS. In the war against al quaida we needed to get out of it and the consensus said we could knock out Iraq in a couple of weeks of hard fighting and then pivot those forces into Afghanistan and hold Iran neutral. That didn't work out because the idiots at State decided to appoint their own man as Tsar in Iraq and he turned a highly successful war into a pointless drawn out debacle and the idiots did the same thing in Afghanistan after they quickly routed or annihilated al quaida and much of the Taliban. ONLY a complete fuckin idiot would hang around in Afghanistan one second longer than necessary but these idiots decided to "win the hearts and minds" of the most ruthless 7th century tribesman on the planet.
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Never ever cite wikipiedia as you source. Try to find something that is real. Primary sources are always good but should always be double checked against other valid sources. You do know that any jackass can edit/write wikipedia, don't you?
On my currently frtized computer I have a web page that lists American military involvement in every corner of the world starting in 1776, You would be absolutely amazed to see how many countries we invaded or bashed over the last 150 years. We may have started on the Indians early but we also did Barbary Pirates around the same time.
What a lot of people failed to realize about us is that we really like to fight but we like to fight for a result we can touch and feel which is the absolute opposite of what Continentals fought for. I think we are done now with fighting. It would take an amazing thing to get us to even consider a regime change type operation. Ditto pulling Europe out the fire if it attacks Russia even more blatantly than it has with the drones being flown out of the Baltic States and probably out of Poland as well. We are completely done with Africa and the Far East.
We have fools trying to gull us into building the Chinese into our great new enemy that we must build a mighty war machine to counter but the truth is that China is a house of cards economically and while it can beat the crap out of any of its neighbors except Japan and Korea, why would it? Those are its trading partners and the Chinese are not infected with some idiotic notion of needing liebensraum and less now than ever before since their population is going into the sack just like much of the rest of the world.
I encourage reading history. Please stay away from that idiot Howard Zinn.
Seems there is nothing new under the sun...again.
Your entire post about our navy and:
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Call it by name, sir. Treason, Treason most foul. When the very military cannot be trusted to do its duty, it's treason. Rusted swords, poorly trained aux troops of high tech unmaintained ships. Much the same.
You know your history sir, once the Roman Legions started picking their Caeser's then all went to hades. More a symptom of the Roman Republics corruption than the reason but a sure sign the Republic was indeed dead.
The French Revolution also went through such military corruption as they didn't support the King nor fully the Jacobians with many disasters to follow. Not until a strong little man named Napolean managed to gather enough military to defeat the remainder that the Reign of Terror and the massive loss of civilian life in the chaos finally stopped.
All empires die, some to be reborn after much chaos. Not a good time to be a civilian.
Since you are not a fan of Wikipedia, please list any war (not conflict) since WW2 which the American military won out right.
Since WW2, the US military hasn't been able to go toe-to-toe with any peer regardless of where or when. It's been kicked out of so many shit hole countries due to poor leadership on both the parts of it's military leaders and civilian leaders.
Anyone dumb enough to enlist in todays military deserves whatever tragic end they come to either through poor leadership or lack of veteran support. The military always has billions for the latest fad, but we have to have a go-fund me for the vet down the street who can't get a prosthetic leg from the VA.
SNIP Never ever cite wikipiedia as you source. Try to find something that is real. Primary sources are always good but should always be double checked against other valid sources. You do know that any jackass can edit/write wikipedia, don't you?
You missed that did you? He's already agreed that our military has been an over self-promoted military that hasn't succeeded in much.
If spreadsheets and yes men could win wars, we'd be GOOD.
But then Afghanistan, Ukraine and soon enough I suspect Iraq will put paid to that idea of a Tick Tock Military "Victory".
That we have a Texas supported Islamic invasion going on and vets that are homeless screams the fall of our Republic is here.
What the folks like Sal and Konrad don't understand now is just what you're talking about. I watched a nuclear submarine on the threshold of a $50 million repair and upgrade burn to a crisp because a low level shipyard worker deliberately set a a fire onboard in the yard that got out of control almost immediately and his only reason to do it was so he could leave early to pick up his girlfriend. Somebody burned a big deck amphib out by setting a fire and nobody knows who, but that's what happened. We have now entered a "no trust" environment and there is no sign that we are taking steps to deal with it. We know what they are but we cannot take them for social reasons that just don't matter except that they do. I'm not talking TPI and that sort of thing, just basic civilizational things that would allow us to screen out the hopeless losers and fanatics before they run around with a match and an oily rag.
People think it is just the higher ups that are the main problem but they let the rot spread all the way down with their DIE stuff and nonsense and now they infect every level with people you cannot trust to simply answer the phone much less run around a machinery space or near your weapons.
The main thing he missed is that by force of arms we won every conflict since WWII to our satisfaction and then suffered calamity from the failure to understand that we were not waging an existential struggle with unconditional surrender as the only option on the table. Even where we exercised restraint and just pulled our forces out of worthless unwinnable disasters like any conflict in Africa over the last 100 years, we only tried for regime change by force of arms in Iraq and Afghanistan and both of those were so stupidly done that it wasted a total military victory. If we had pulled out immediately after wasting the countries and destroying their military and putting in controls that would allow us to identify, find and kill all future plotters who would use terrorists as the main weapon against US, we would have been fine and not suffered the illusion and delusion that we somehow LOST. What was lost was the will to waste the people and then occupy the places like we do Germany and Japan and people lost sight of that. Look at those two places NOW and contrast with what they were like going into WWII. That was US being sick and tired of fighting other people's wars so we decided to end it. Would you say that we were successful there?
We just don't have WILL to do that anymore and no need to do it anymore and we should not have tried the feint hearted BS we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both should have been more like Libya, which was still an epic disaster that kills to this day.
I don't know friend. I'd NOT hold Libya as a "Success Story". I worked at JFK Center as a supporting medic. I know we trained Kaddafi, Sadam and Noreiga because I knew the soldiers that trained them.
We set up our "Strongmen" and when they fail to dance to our tune, take them out and most often leave that country a Breeding Ground for terrorists.
Not exactly what I'd call successful.
We'd have done SO MUCH BETTER if we had listened to that old fellow saying, "No entangling alliances" and not seeking dragons to slay.
I do not have a solution for this. Does any one man?
Where would you start?
Top down? All at once?
The United Sates ended the war with those two nukes. That is what war is you kill people and break things until the enemy has to give up and unconditionally surrenders to you. Korea - Fail
Vietnam - Fail, Bay of Pigs -Fail, Somali - Fail, Bosnian/Croatia - Fail, Afghanistan - Fail, Yemen - Failing, Iraq - Basically a failure, Niger - Fail, Syria - Fail, all these places we did not get unconditionally surrender from them, especially Korea and Nam. Plus, what political party was in power when these named places came out as failures? That is why we are still getting grief from north Korea and the rest of these places.
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