I read all 30 page’s of Mike’s story. 2 gut reactions: a) our national character (from which all service members are drawn) is now so corrupted that men and women like Mike cannot be tolerated. They are disruptive forces to TPTB... a mirror held to the faces of TPTB in which they can’t stand to see their corrupt reflection. The Mike’s must go. b) The absence if men like Mike is why I resigned my commission. Serving aboard an aircraft carrier gives one many hours to reflect on your future. I often asked myself, while sitting in the Ready Room (the hub of all squadron life for months on end) and observing senior leadership, “Do I want to grow up to be this person?” The answer was always, “No.” I was often appalled at who the Navy promoted and who they cast aside. Although I absolutely loved being a fighter pilot, I’ve never regretted that decision to resign.
Navy fighter pilot huh? I think I understand your name now! I don't know that it is the national character as the majority of Americans aren't down with it. I think its more that our system has concentrated people with the worst character in positions of power and influence and we're dealing with the consequences of that. Its a state of affairs that can't remain forever. Its up to us to find a way from here to there thag sucks least and help facilitate the transition. Applying POSIWID and other techniques will help cut through the toxic soft competition bs will be helpful. More to follow in the next article.
I'll just add that Lt. Col. Smith's story and the more general anti-accountability matrix you describe also infects the private sector at all levels.
You already knew that, of course. And I understand that the (physical) risk factors are wildly different. But the evolving shape and trajectory of the fractal bears repeating in this interconnected web of butterflies and typhoons -- particularly since the obfuscation layer you describe allows the bureaucritters to simulate or wash their hands of both causes and effects, or pass the buck in any direction to any industry.
Maybe the onus shifts to high value civvies with much lower buy-ins, risks and exit costs to case-test a way out of this mess. "Social hacking" is a lost art, but without it we might all wind up at the mercy of this small world's Ashleys and their lazy, unprincipled benefactors.
I think what separates this scenario from public sector is how vulnerable to SOF community is to this angle of attack. The high performers in that culture are instinctively driven to confront such things directly, or ignore them thinking that their competence will speak for itself. This has been on display for a long time with operators that transition into medical.
The efficacy of this soft competition style relies on plausible deniability and ignorance. I'm hoping shining a light on how it is done will be helpful. Reading through Lt Col Smith's entire story shows in detail how Ashley was able to accrue institutional influence. All things with plausible deniability which gets chalked up to "miscommunication." The trick will be to try to equate "incompetence" with malice. In war these things have the same impact, and so in preparation for war they should be dealt with equivalently. The problem is this approach while natural to SOF culture is completely alien and discomforting to those accustomed to the prototypical corporate longhouse culture. I get the impression that people feel like they shouldn't have to deal with this stuff so they don't. They cede power and influence thinking honor and competence will allow them enough leeway to still get the job done. When that doesn't work out they just resign totally bewildered at what happened. This has been a ratcheting effect over the last decade at least, but I get the impression its gone asymptotic in the last 2-3.
I served with Bulldog multiple times (both in garrison and deployed, and both when he was enlisted and when he was an officer).
How you describe him and excellence doesn't even cut it. He's better than that. His family life is amazing, he's an outstanding friend, and he's always put the men and the mission first, before his own ego or dirty politics, and been outstanding at every assignment. When he was a Staff Sergeant JTAC-I, he was one of the best and taught me a lot (and possibly saved my life as I was in an ugly TIC only a few months after he wrote some of my last 206s). As a Lt, when he ran the weapons school and became the first patched officer JTAC, he was still a Paragon of excellence in all he did.
He's managed to be accountable, honest, straightforward, understand strategic and national objectives and the operational preparation to execute those objectives at the macro and micro scale while making an environment with unimaginable morale for a bunch of quadruple volunteer alpha type operators and diverse support personnel alike.
I'm not surprised he was a threat to wing leadership that have no idea what it's like to lead warriors much less be one.
Thank you for sharing this. This part "making an environment with unimaginable morale for a bunch of quadruple volunteer alpha type operators and diverse support personnel alike" really stood out to me. That outcome is the gold standard for what TPTB say they're targeting, but this fiasco proves that this is an ugly lie. From this article I read yesterday there is a quote on the parable of King Rex that brings this dynamic into focus https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/29/if-memes-are-illegal-all-speech-will-become-illegal/
"In his 1964 book The Morality of Law, legal theorist Lon L. Fuller tells the parable of King Rex, an ambitious though naive ruler who attempts to reform his kingdom’s legal system from the ground up. First, his legal code is too narrow, then too broad, too abstruse, then too plain. His subjects’ dissatisfaction mounts, until the king realizes that by making his laws impossible to obey, he can bring his enemies to heel whenever he chooses."
Essentially diversity creates a more challenging environment to foster unity and cohesion. It isn't impossible to achieve, just difficult, especially with commanders at echelon being so risk averse and a shifting guilty-until-proven-innocent culture around SHARP and EO allegations. Since so few will be able to pull it off, it is an always available tool to maintain control. Bulldog did pull it off though, and in so doing demonstrated the lie of DEI in no uncertain terms.
Compromised religions often have parallel governance, often lodges, and that narrows the fight for political capture. The military academies may have fallen at some point, or been designed by bad actors.
Excellent leaders have come out of the service academies, so I'd be skeptical that they are problematic by design, but like most institutions they are vulnerable to capture, and Conquest's Law informs us of who will do the capturing. If Americanism can be thought of as a kind of religion, and American militarism as a subset I think it is probably accurate to say it is compromised and that parallel governance is part of that. It might also explain why the military lagged behind other institutions. You'd think commanders have enough authority to prevent the emergence of parallel governance, but they don't, especially when their ability to "perform" and get promoted becomes more and more dependent on GS civilians at higher echelons. These civilians are essentially impossible to fire over the course of a single commander's tenure, and if they wanted to go that route, they would have a difficult time getting anything else accomplished.
This is a pretty complex issue. Like everything else, the extent to which women are integrated into the military involves many tradeoffs. My main contention is that we need to be aware of these tradeoffs instead of pretending that inclusivity at every level and in every job application is all upside and anyone unconvinced is some kind of bigot. There are clearly performance implications when even a single woman is added to a previously all male group, and this is something I've written about previously: https://h2fman.substack.com/p/hpo-considerations-for-mixed-groups
My current opinion if you care to hear it is that if there is a way out of this mess we're in, female service members will be a part of the solution. So much of the political subversion of the military is subtle and indirect characteristic of the female competition style (I'm using an evopsych framework here). In order to resist this progressive onslaught, we need people on our side that are capable of contending with this, and I can honestly say some of the most effective Soldiers I work with are women. Then again I'm not in a light infantry company...
To reiterate, there are always tradeoffs. It is my opinion that there are situations where these tradeoffs are worthwhile, and others where they aren't. The inability to have a candid conversations about the nature of these tradeoffs is the real problem. This enforced silence provides cover to a subset of the population that seeks to use the perceived status and legitimacy of the US Military to affirm their unconstrained vision/progressive worldview.
As for my opinion, I more specifically believe that women are not to be of military rank. Anything that is not directly tied to the battlefield should be outsourced. We have already outsourced criminal investigations amongst the armed forces to NCIS, USACIDC, and other like agencies. Women tend to be more tail than tooth, so they would be a part of "civilian" agencies that are adjacent to the military core. There will be female agents, police officers, clerks, etc. but the actual military personnel will be exclusively men. An example with medicine: combat medics would be exclusively male and have military rank, while the hospital nurses are part of an agency and would have females. Nurses are not of military rank in the same way that police officers or federal agents are not of military rank. Women will be a part of our defense infrastructure, just not as "privates" (which is grammatically disagreeable to my intuition).
There are pretty specific details about how Ashley spent government money in a manner consistent with an overall objective to expand influence. The thing is, it is pretty easy to do that without doing anything illegal. There was something she did linking camera feeds to her personal devices which I think is probably illegal, but someone would need to have the will to pursue accountability there, and I don't think that is within the realm of possibility.
Read through his whole story that I linked to at the end of the 1st paragraph. He essentially played everything as straight as humanly possible consistently focused on doing the right thing confronted by bad faith actors with an agenda that directly undermined him and his unit.
It got him the respect of his Airmen. It got him our respect. It gave him the peace of mind knowing he did the right thing without the cognitive dissonance that comes with bullshitting yourself. I'd be surprised if he has any regrets.
I think you misunderstood what I mean by decency, I don’t mean his men.
Y’all are too decent for this world, sorry.
Point blank; he wanted to be proper to these people, he should have been feared by these wretched, low grade criminals.
Decency is not the way.
I’m sorry.
These are criminals, whether or not they have been caught doing anything illegal (other than putting cameras on operators, compromising their identities).
These are not criminals who’d last 5 minutes in NYC or NJ.
Now the system is set up by and for them, so that they can be queens of the Longhouse.
They are in truth low grade grifters, who easily, all too easily abuse the discipline, trust and decency of men like this, or cow them into submission like his peers and these wretched field grades.
You don’t have to be dirty, or a coward- but that leaves being feared.
Sorry!
I’m not actually a brute or bully, I just learned to deal with them.
Ah, yes, that makes sense and I did mosunderstand, but regardless of the ethics of it I don't think that would be fly in the air force. He was already getting accused of being toxic as a consummate professional, so any behavior that was borderline threatening wouldve backfired.
It would be nice to think the military would be a bulwark against the demonic forces destroying America's institutions. That does not seem the case.
Now I have to ask, why in the world did you use the word occult in the title? Because the occult studies I am familiar with are precisely about pursuing mental, physical and spiritual excellence, to achieve the fullness of one's being before the Creator. What you are describing is more like demonic.
This has been a long time coming due to the M1 pencil in the army. Ever read About Face by David Hackworth? It’s just been getting progressively worse due to “progressives” in the military leadership.
I don’t know if everyone realizes just how fucking insignificant a GS-11 is in the federal government bureaucracy. That this individual had any impact is simply incredible.
I realise that I am not on the same planet as people like Mike and Col Boyd but my first career was with the Royal Mail (Post Office) here in the UK. I rose from the bottom rapidly and one day I was taken aside by a senior director who said to me “Stephen you are a bright star. Those at the top often tend to be dull stars who have got there not on merit but on graft and time serving. So if you want to get to the top tone your personality down. “ I left shortly afterwards. I had several jobs all what I considered being a servant to others. The National Trust and then a lay minister in the Anglican Church. I kept coming up against the attitude to excellence and the sorry and pathetic creatures that inhabited the upper reaches echelons of the organisation. I resigned, quietly and without fuss, in 2000 and since then have made my own way on roughly $20,000 a year. Never been happier. My inspiration came from John Galt in Atlas Shrugged and Gandalf on The Lord of the Rings as well as the life and example of Jesus. It’s not running away but as Clausewitz said in On War” it’s knowing which battle to fight and which to withdraw from to fight another on a different day on better terrain and with better odds (paraphrased.)
Thank you for sharing your story! Very insightful senior director you had, but such a shame that he saw the dynamic he described as an unavoidable feature of the system. Maybe he's right just highlighting the timeless and intractable limitations of bureaucracy. Based on your background I think you would love this recent article: https://thesaxoncross.substack.com/p/idylls-of-the-king
I read that article last night! It was superb. I am engaged on writing a trilogy based on “Arthurian” material at present and probably for the next few years. I have spent several years extensively research the Britain 400-600 and living on various places from Kent to the Scottish Borders and now reside in remote mid-Wales. It will be my best shot at reality no fantasy but then it’s such a vast canvass and remarkable in the details we know that you don’t have to conjecture very much. Apologies if I bore you but what is happening right now with corrupt and incompetent leaders, mass invited immigration and wholesale abandonment of Christian moral values happened then. As Voltaire said it’s not history that repeats the same mistakes it’s mankind that does. Stephen
I read all 30 page’s of Mike’s story. 2 gut reactions: a) our national character (from which all service members are drawn) is now so corrupted that men and women like Mike cannot be tolerated. They are disruptive forces to TPTB... a mirror held to the faces of TPTB in which they can’t stand to see their corrupt reflection. The Mike’s must go. b) The absence if men like Mike is why I resigned my commission. Serving aboard an aircraft carrier gives one many hours to reflect on your future. I often asked myself, while sitting in the Ready Room (the hub of all squadron life for months on end) and observing senior leadership, “Do I want to grow up to be this person?” The answer was always, “No.” I was often appalled at who the Navy promoted and who they cast aside. Although I absolutely loved being a fighter pilot, I’ve never regretted that decision to resign.
Navy fighter pilot huh? I think I understand your name now! I don't know that it is the national character as the majority of Americans aren't down with it. I think its more that our system has concentrated people with the worst character in positions of power and influence and we're dealing with the consequences of that. Its a state of affairs that can't remain forever. Its up to us to find a way from here to there thag sucks least and help facilitate the transition. Applying POSIWID and other techniques will help cut through the toxic soft competition bs will be helpful. More to follow in the next article.
Same, 90s army
Went back as NCO for Iraq /GWOT
Don’t regret it
But they’re poisoning the NCO:s too
Excellent as always, Major.
I'll just add that Lt. Col. Smith's story and the more general anti-accountability matrix you describe also infects the private sector at all levels.
You already knew that, of course. And I understand that the (physical) risk factors are wildly different. But the evolving shape and trajectory of the fractal bears repeating in this interconnected web of butterflies and typhoons -- particularly since the obfuscation layer you describe allows the bureaucritters to simulate or wash their hands of both causes and effects, or pass the buck in any direction to any industry.
Maybe the onus shifts to high value civvies with much lower buy-ins, risks and exit costs to case-test a way out of this mess. "Social hacking" is a lost art, but without it we might all wind up at the mercy of this small world's Ashleys and their lazy, unprincipled benefactors.
I think what separates this scenario from public sector is how vulnerable to SOF community is to this angle of attack. The high performers in that culture are instinctively driven to confront such things directly, or ignore them thinking that their competence will speak for itself. This has been on display for a long time with operators that transition into medical.
The efficacy of this soft competition style relies on plausible deniability and ignorance. I'm hoping shining a light on how it is done will be helpful. Reading through Lt Col Smith's entire story shows in detail how Ashley was able to accrue institutional influence. All things with plausible deniability which gets chalked up to "miscommunication." The trick will be to try to equate "incompetence" with malice. In war these things have the same impact, and so in preparation for war they should be dealt with equivalently. The problem is this approach while natural to SOF culture is completely alien and discomforting to those accustomed to the prototypical corporate longhouse culture. I get the impression that people feel like they shouldn't have to deal with this stuff so they don't. They cede power and influence thinking honor and competence will allow them enough leeway to still get the job done. When that doesn't work out they just resign totally bewildered at what happened. This has been a ratcheting effect over the last decade at least, but I get the impression its gone asymptotic in the last 2-3.
I served with Bulldog multiple times (both in garrison and deployed, and both when he was enlisted and when he was an officer).
How you describe him and excellence doesn't even cut it. He's better than that. His family life is amazing, he's an outstanding friend, and he's always put the men and the mission first, before his own ego or dirty politics, and been outstanding at every assignment. When he was a Staff Sergeant JTAC-I, he was one of the best and taught me a lot (and possibly saved my life as I was in an ugly TIC only a few months after he wrote some of my last 206s). As a Lt, when he ran the weapons school and became the first patched officer JTAC, he was still a Paragon of excellence in all he did.
He's managed to be accountable, honest, straightforward, understand strategic and national objectives and the operational preparation to execute those objectives at the macro and micro scale while making an environment with unimaginable morale for a bunch of quadruple volunteer alpha type operators and diverse support personnel alike.
I'm not surprised he was a threat to wing leadership that have no idea what it's like to lead warriors much less be one.
Thank you for sharing this. This part "making an environment with unimaginable morale for a bunch of quadruple volunteer alpha type operators and diverse support personnel alike" really stood out to me. That outcome is the gold standard for what TPTB say they're targeting, but this fiasco proves that this is an ugly lie. From this article I read yesterday there is a quote on the parable of King Rex that brings this dynamic into focus https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/29/if-memes-are-illegal-all-speech-will-become-illegal/
"In his 1964 book The Morality of Law, legal theorist Lon L. Fuller tells the parable of King Rex, an ambitious though naive ruler who attempts to reform his kingdom’s legal system from the ground up. First, his legal code is too narrow, then too broad, too abstruse, then too plain. His subjects’ dissatisfaction mounts, until the king realizes that by making his laws impossible to obey, he can bring his enemies to heel whenever he chooses."
Essentially diversity creates a more challenging environment to foster unity and cohesion. It isn't impossible to achieve, just difficult, especially with commanders at echelon being so risk averse and a shifting guilty-until-proven-innocent culture around SHARP and EO allegations. Since so few will be able to pull it off, it is an always available tool to maintain control. Bulldog did pull it off though, and in so doing demonstrated the lie of DEI in no uncertain terms.
Compromised religions often have parallel governance, often lodges, and that narrows the fight for political capture. The military academies may have fallen at some point, or been designed by bad actors.
Excellent leaders have come out of the service academies, so I'd be skeptical that they are problematic by design, but like most institutions they are vulnerable to capture, and Conquest's Law informs us of who will do the capturing. If Americanism can be thought of as a kind of religion, and American militarism as a subset I think it is probably accurate to say it is compromised and that parallel governance is part of that. It might also explain why the military lagged behind other institutions. You'd think commanders have enough authority to prevent the emergence of parallel governance, but they don't, especially when their ability to "perform" and get promoted becomes more and more dependent on GS civilians at higher echelons. These civilians are essentially impossible to fire over the course of a single commander's tenure, and if they wanted to go that route, they would have a difficult time getting anything else accomplished.
I've become ever more convinced that women don't belong in the military.
This is a pretty complex issue. Like everything else, the extent to which women are integrated into the military involves many tradeoffs. My main contention is that we need to be aware of these tradeoffs instead of pretending that inclusivity at every level and in every job application is all upside and anyone unconvinced is some kind of bigot. There are clearly performance implications when even a single woman is added to a previously all male group, and this is something I've written about previously: https://h2fman.substack.com/p/hpo-considerations-for-mixed-groups
My current opinion if you care to hear it is that if there is a way out of this mess we're in, female service members will be a part of the solution. So much of the political subversion of the military is subtle and indirect characteristic of the female competition style (I'm using an evopsych framework here). In order to resist this progressive onslaught, we need people on our side that are capable of contending with this, and I can honestly say some of the most effective Soldiers I work with are women. Then again I'm not in a light infantry company...
To reiterate, there are always tradeoffs. It is my opinion that there are situations where these tradeoffs are worthwhile, and others where they aren't. The inability to have a candid conversations about the nature of these tradeoffs is the real problem. This enforced silence provides cover to a subset of the population that seeks to use the perceived status and legitimacy of the US Military to affirm their unconstrained vision/progressive worldview.
As for my opinion, I more specifically believe that women are not to be of military rank. Anything that is not directly tied to the battlefield should be outsourced. We have already outsourced criminal investigations amongst the armed forces to NCIS, USACIDC, and other like agencies. Women tend to be more tail than tooth, so they would be a part of "civilian" agencies that are adjacent to the military core. There will be female agents, police officers, clerks, etc. but the actual military personnel will be exclusively men. An example with medicine: combat medics would be exclusively male and have military rank, while the hospital nurses are part of an agency and would have females. Nurses are not of military rank in the same way that police officers or federal agents are not of military rank. Women will be a part of our defense infrastructure, just not as "privates" (which is grammatically disagreeable to my intuition).
Smell that?
You smell that?
I SMELL MONEY
DIRTY MONEY
💩
I haven’t even looked yet at link
Tell “Mike” if he can’t find it..
… LEARN…
And I want this guy to win
There are pretty specific details about how Ashley spent government money in a manner consistent with an overall objective to expand influence. The thing is, it is pretty easy to do that without doing anything illegal. There was something she did linking camera feeds to her personal devices which I think is probably illegal, but someone would need to have the will to pursue accountability there, and I don't think that is within the realm of possibility.
Read through his whole story that I linked to at the end of the 1st paragraph. He essentially played everything as straight as humanly possible consistently focused on doing the right thing confronted by bad faith actors with an agenda that directly undermined him and his unit.
I am reading it. 30 pages.
Notice what decency got him.
It got him the respect of his Airmen. It got him our respect. It gave him the peace of mind knowing he did the right thing without the cognitive dissonance that comes with bullshitting yourself. I'd be surprised if he has any regrets.
I think you misunderstood what I mean by decency, I don’t mean his men.
Y’all are too decent for this world, sorry.
Point blank; he wanted to be proper to these people, he should have been feared by these wretched, low grade criminals.
Decency is not the way.
I’m sorry.
These are criminals, whether or not they have been caught doing anything illegal (other than putting cameras on operators, compromising their identities).
These are not criminals who’d last 5 minutes in NYC or NJ.
Now the system is set up by and for them, so that they can be queens of the Longhouse.
They are in truth low grade grifters, who easily, all too easily abuse the discipline, trust and decency of men like this, or cow them into submission like his peers and these wretched field grades.
You don’t have to be dirty, or a coward- but that leaves being feared.
Sorry!
I’m not actually a brute or bully, I just learned to deal with them.
Ah, yes, that makes sense and I did mosunderstand, but regardless of the ethics of it I don't think that would be fly in the air force. He was already getting accused of being toxic as a consummate professional, so any behavior that was borderline threatening wouldve backfired.
Then it’s over.
Time to close shop.
Lol
They can deal with the Toxic paragliders lmao
And it’s time to walk away when the 💩 hits, fair is fair.
We can’t turn our backs on these people, we can’t defend them, and they can meet their just fate.
Read the PDF.
1. It’s an Extortion Ring.
2. His friends and leadership did him a favor, he needs to be away from this…
3. Extortion means cameras on operators in gym. Their faces are logged, known, digitized. They can be threatened now. Especially with LTC gone.
Certainly rest of leadership won’t protect them.
4. Extortion gains; the operators skill set is very valuable.
5. KBR is level above GS Henderson. $$$
I doubt he has regrets, he’s doing his duty alerting the rest of us,
And Dudley Do Right kicked over too many rocks , there’s more than gym equipment missing lol.
It would be nice to think the military would be a bulwark against the demonic forces destroying America's institutions. That does not seem the case.
Now I have to ask, why in the world did you use the word occult in the title? Because the occult studies I am familiar with are precisely about pursuing mental, physical and spiritual excellence, to achieve the fullness of one's being before the Creator. What you are describing is more like demonic.
Just a synonym for hidden, not trying to make a comment on gnosticism or occultism
Most people think it is a synonym for demonic. I'm a little sensitive about it, as I write a fair amount about occult topics.
This has been a long time coming due to the M1 pencil in the army. Ever read About Face by David Hackworth? It’s just been getting progressively worse due to “progressives” in the military leadership.
I haven't, what is it focused on?
I don’t know if everyone realizes just how fucking insignificant a GS-11 is in the federal government bureaucracy. That this individual had any impact is simply incredible.
When the GS-11 works directly for an O6, and the O6 doesn't want to risk confrontation, things like this will happen.
Didn’t President Truman have a sign on his desk that said “The Buck Stops Here. “
I realise that I am not on the same planet as people like Mike and Col Boyd but my first career was with the Royal Mail (Post Office) here in the UK. I rose from the bottom rapidly and one day I was taken aside by a senior director who said to me “Stephen you are a bright star. Those at the top often tend to be dull stars who have got there not on merit but on graft and time serving. So if you want to get to the top tone your personality down. “ I left shortly afterwards. I had several jobs all what I considered being a servant to others. The National Trust and then a lay minister in the Anglican Church. I kept coming up against the attitude to excellence and the sorry and pathetic creatures that inhabited the upper reaches echelons of the organisation. I resigned, quietly and without fuss, in 2000 and since then have made my own way on roughly $20,000 a year. Never been happier. My inspiration came from John Galt in Atlas Shrugged and Gandalf on The Lord of the Rings as well as the life and example of Jesus. It’s not running away but as Clausewitz said in On War” it’s knowing which battle to fight and which to withdraw from to fight another on a different day on better terrain and with better odds (paraphrased.)
Thank you for sharing your story! Very insightful senior director you had, but such a shame that he saw the dynamic he described as an unavoidable feature of the system. Maybe he's right just highlighting the timeless and intractable limitations of bureaucracy. Based on your background I think you would love this recent article: https://thesaxoncross.substack.com/p/idylls-of-the-king
I read that article last night! It was superb. I am engaged on writing a trilogy based on “Arthurian” material at present and probably for the next few years. I have spent several years extensively research the Britain 400-600 and living on various places from Kent to the Scottish Borders and now reside in remote mid-Wales. It will be my best shot at reality no fantasy but then it’s such a vast canvass and remarkable in the details we know that you don’t have to conjecture very much. Apologies if I bore you but what is happening right now with corrupt and incompetent leaders, mass invited immigration and wholesale abandonment of Christian moral values happened then. As Voltaire said it’s not history that repeats the same mistakes it’s mankind that does. Stephen
It's not the national character, it's that at the higher levels of command, its a social club. If you don't fit in, you don't advance.
In order for a person to advance, they have to have pronouns, dress like the opposite sex, and be gay.
IF they are immoral, that's a plus.
America’s next war will make Afghanistan look like a victory.
The casualties will be catastrophic.
Meanwhile the sun just might have sneaked a peek through the clouds
https://t.me/terminalcwo/3859
General Rainey, 4 stars, says the army and General Officers need to improve on accountability.
“We suck at accountability… General Officers are the worst at it..”