No. of Recommendations: 4
...are nothing new in our history. Obama fired/force retired some 197 general officers during his administration.
Know who else did?
FDR. George C. Marshall carried it out.
nationalreview.com - Trump prepares a pentagon plucking committeeFirst, why is a purge necessary?
the Biden administration’s stewardship of the Pentagon — from throwing it into the abortion debate, to mandating force-wide diversity, equity, inclusion seminars, to promoting climate activism at the expense of real-world mission requirements, to quixotic campaigns to weed out domestic extremists, the list goes on — represents the most extreme politicization of U.S. military forces in modern history. Therein is the inherent challenge that Republicans face in the courtrooms of newsrooms — radical progressive policies are considered routine, but the act of removing those policies is considered inherently political and divisive.If you think the military needs to be weighing in abortion policy and celebrating pronouns, then you won't get it.
I fear we may be returning to the toxic practice of “history began yesterday” reporting, in which every proposed action by a Trump administration is written as a tectonic, norms-defying event without precedent or historic rationale. We're already there.
Anyway:
I wish every officer in the United States armed forces and political appointees to the Pentagon would read On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, which was written by a British World War II veteran in the 1970s. The lieutenant turned psychologist Norman F. Dixon detailed, in a meticulous analysis of a century of British military disasters, how lack of focus, promoting the wrong qualities in an officer, and bureaucratic obsessiveness can lead to brutal and sometimes irreversible losses on the battlefield. To read it, and compare it to our officer corps today, is a disconcerting endeavor. 