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发帖数: 38600 | 1 An Officer Corps That Can’t Score
How military careerism breeds habits of defeat
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/an-officer-corp
Such a moral and intellectual collapse of the officer corps is one of the
worst disasters that can afflict a military because it means it cannot adapt
to new realities. It is on its way to history’s wastebasket. The situation
brings to mind an anecdote an Air Force friend, now a military historian,
liked to tell some years ago. Every military, he said, occasionally craps in
its own mess kit. The Prussians did it in 1806, after which they designed
and put into service a much improved new model messkit, through the
Scharnhorst military reforms. The French did it in 1870, after which they
took down from the shelf an old-model messkit—the mass, draft army of the
First Republic—and put it back in service. The Japanese did it in 1945,
after which they threw their mess kit away, swearing they would never eat
again. And we did it in Korea, in Vietnam, and now in four new wars. So far,
we’ve had the only military that’s just kept on eating. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 2 Look at Maliki and Karzi. We have installed them and then called for their
removal. How many uprisings have we fomented and abandoned? US foreign
policy can change with a single negative headline. Who wants somebody like
that backing you?
Looking at that last two hundred years of US history ,the only constant has
been the doublecross in every commitment. Its amazing that anybody would
deal with.
Uncle Scam,but they do.The Brits were no different, just more subtle. |
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