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Government Corruption
The Deadly Untrustworthiness of General Mark Milley
2023-08-11
[American Thinker] General Mark Milley, who is Secretary of Defense Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
...correction per Procopius2k...
has forgotten that he was a soldier. Now, he’s only a leftist bureaucrat in uniform. Milley’s basic mode of operation is ingratiating himself to a political class that values the servile.

What makes Milley dangerous is his willingness to lie unhesitatingly, particularly in public. He is the highest-ranking military officer in the nation, and this matters. Technically the Secretary of Defense is a civilian post even though the Secretary may have a military background. The President and Congress provide civilian oversight but can only do so when presented with truthful, accurate information.

In June 2021, Tucker Carlson made some very strong remarks about Milley’s attempts to make teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the military seem benign. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Milley compared CRT to reading Marx and Mao, as if it’s just part of educating the troops about different ideologies. However, our military is not urging the adoption of Marxism. (At least not yet!) What Milley is doing is cooperating with the Democrat left to indoctrinate the troops in blatant racism.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Although Milley has plenty of war fighting experience on his resume, he does not appear to be good at strategy or tactics. The Afghanistan withdrawal was terrible, yet Milley did three tours in Afghanistan. How could he not have a realistic conception of how the Afghan army would perform based on his experience in theater? Why evacuate through Kabul instead of Bagram?

Milley then pitched a plan for the Ukraine counteroffensive that was not realistic or convincing to anyone. Maybe his Chinese buddy punked him with a bad plan, but Milley appears to have been the perfect embodiment of the Peter Principle, until Biden made PP the Mission Statement for an entire administration.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-08-11 12:40  

#3  Correction inserted in the text. Thank you, Procopius2k.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-08-11 11:48  

#2  /\ Good catch. RLTW!
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-08-11 07:43  

#1  who is Secretary of Defense

No, he's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. They work for the Secretary of Defense who is Austin.

has forgotten that he was a soldier

He is a politician in a uniform as are all the senior military men. When your position requires the approval of the White House, its no longer a purely institutional selection.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-08-11 07:41  

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