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2023-08-11 Government Corruption

The Deadly Untrustworthiness of General Mark Milley

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-11 06:51|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#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|| 2023-08-11 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Good catch. RLTW!

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-11 07:43|| 2023-08-11 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Correction inserted in the text. Thank you, Procopius2k.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-08-11 11:48|| 2023-08-11 11:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-08-11 12:40|| Front Page Top

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