09-16-2020, 01:51 PM
Issues with the officer corps, its personnel management, and its promotion policies are longstanding.
What is really needed among the flag ranks is a serious and permanent downsizing without any ideological hogwash.
Way back in the early 1980s, one of America's then-eminent military historians noted in his work "The Pentagon and the Art of War", that, although our military was approximately one-tenth the personnel strength it had in World War II . . . the number of flag officers was still roughly the same.
To some extent it makes sense to have some "extras" around if a war breaks out and the size of the force has to be rapidly increased.
But what we have now is a self-licking ice cream cone that thinks it tastes just great. And the current bunch of flag officers display no motivation to change the situation. That is not healthy for the military and it is not healthy for the Republic.
Cheers
What is really needed among the flag ranks is a serious and permanent downsizing without any ideological hogwash.
Way back in the early 1980s, one of America's then-eminent military historians noted in his work "The Pentagon and the Art of War", that, although our military was approximately one-tenth the personnel strength it had in World War II . . . the number of flag officers was still roughly the same.
To some extent it makes sense to have some "extras" around if a war breaks out and the size of the force has to be rapidly increased.
But what we have now is a self-licking ice cream cone that thinks it tastes just great. And the current bunch of flag officers display no motivation to change the situation. That is not healthy for the military and it is not healthy for the Republic.
Cheers
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