DGS49
Diamond Member
If you are interested in this matter, you should read this...
The Secretary of Defense should NEVER be a retired General of Admiral, and I would venture to say that 90% of American veterans know why this is. The U.S. officer corps is a cult, especially when we are not at war. You succeed by buying into the particular line of bullshit of your superior officer because EVERYTHING depends on your Officer Efficiency Report. One bad mark and your career is effectively over. So if the command structure dictates that "diversity is our strength," you will have approximately ZERO officers pushing back on that line of bullshit because to push back would be to sabotage one's own OER and hence, one's career.
There are some great officers in our armed forces, men who are intelligent, dynamic, and able to make split-second decisions that can impact the lives of their subordinates and everyone around them. But such people usually don't make it to be generals or admirals. They are too threatening to their bureaucratic superiors. And I would venture to speculate that we lost a lot of them during the Biden Administration. See the article. Who would want to be a military commander under those conditions?
The Secretary of Defense should NEVER be a retired General of Admiral, and I would venture to say that 90% of American veterans know why this is. The U.S. officer corps is a cult, especially when we are not at war. You succeed by buying into the particular line of bullshit of your superior officer because EVERYTHING depends on your Officer Efficiency Report. One bad mark and your career is effectively over. So if the command structure dictates that "diversity is our strength," you will have approximately ZERO officers pushing back on that line of bullshit because to push back would be to sabotage one's own OER and hence, one's career.
There are some great officers in our armed forces, men who are intelligent, dynamic, and able to make split-second decisions that can impact the lives of their subordinates and everyone around them. But such people usually don't make it to be generals or admirals. They are too threatening to their bureaucratic superiors. And I would venture to speculate that we lost a lot of them during the Biden Administration. See the article. Who would want to be a military commander under those conditions?