We may not have to wait. We may be pimp slapped by the Chinese, Iranians, Russians and NK working together. At the rate the youth is quite rightly refusing to enlist, our personnel shortages may prevent us from fighting in two places at once, let alone three or four. Say, the Red Sea and the Taiwan Straits, then Europe and the Levant. If Putin strikes for Poland or Romania or any other NATO member, even as a feint, we’d find ourselves stretched too thin with too few troops to do it all. The left is treasonous and purposely degrading our military. The single objective of the US military is to deter through intimidation. “Come get some!” If that fails we MUST prevail on the battlefield, whether air, space, land, water or cyber. The US military is expensive, but the most expensive thing is a second-rate military. To wit: we must get rid of wokeness and timeouts in training. We need tough sonsofbitches that will wade in and force the enemy to surrender or die. Throat stabbers. Our Secretary of Defense should be an R Lee Ermey sort. Our drill instructors/sergeants/chiefs should be profane, rough, demanding and not afraid to put a recruit in their place by a swift kick in the ass if necessary. Worked for me. Better to train them with stress than bury them because they could not handle stress. There are no time outs and no safe spaces in combat.
The officers also need to be warrior-leaders, skilled at planning battles, and seeing to their proper execution. Obama started the purge that has left us with way too many perfumed paper-shuffling princes more concerned with their careers than the readiness of their forces.
I wonder what percentage of the officer class is uncorrupted by the woke ideology?
He’ll, it’s almost a requirement from what I hear through the old boy network.
That will end well.
True. However, these days an army officer is lucky to have five years of actual command or leadership out of a 32 year career. He starts as a platoon leader for a year to 18 months. He may then spend a couple of years as a company commander. Between the two is staff assignments. He then works his way up in non-troop-leading roles intil he makes 0-5. There he usually stalls as most do not get battalion commands. In the mean time, from about year three or four, an enlisted man makes sergeant and begins leading troops. For the remaining… Read more »