From a link in the inimitable ‘Woodpile Report’:
‘..Many may remember the famed “Millennium Challenge 2002” held just before Operation Iraqi Freedom. Retired Marine general Paul Van Riper, appointed to serve as opposing force commander, quit because the exercise was rigged. ”We were directed…to move air defenses so that the army and marine units could successfully land,” he said. ”We were simply directed to turn [air defense systems] off or move them… So it was scripted to be whatever the control group wanted it to be.” For the U.S. Army to be successful in battle against competent opponents, changes are necessary…’ Armed Forces Journal
Excellent article. Will senior brass insist on more rigorous training and less gender sensitivity before disaster strikes? Nope. Peacetime (and make no mistake, this is peacetime) careers depend on the latter more than the former.
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A limp-dick American military is pretty good news right about now, since nobody is really sure how many of them will follow orders of a certain variety when the defecation meets the oscillation.
The more pissed off, disillusioned grunts, the better.
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Speaking for myself, I got to find something to do beside watching news and reading blogs. There are more things in life, however, most of them seem destined to disappear very soon as in “Pop.”
Wisdom from the Woodpile-
Stop waiting for the system to change, or collapse. Change the way YOU live and survive. Build your own localized systems and walk away.
It is the nature of free people to demand their military do something when the barbarians are at the gates. But when the barbarians are far away and the fear of slavery and death is gone, they turn on their protectors, heaping scorn and all sorts of bastardry on them.
Don’t worry, we’ll learn the hard and painful way soon enough, it’s the nature of things.