The Trump transition team is considering a board to purge three and four-star generals 'deemed unfit for leadership.'

[Questerr]

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan don’t require an explanation.

Do you think counter insurgencies are easy? How many years did you serve as a general officer?

 

[Along Came Jones]

And who will serve on the board?

And, by what performance measure will the general and flag officers be rated?

 

[Aristaeus]

So once the mentally unstable and rapidly failing Trump feels he has direct and undisputed control of the military we can all sleep better right? What an f'ing nightmare. And yet some will be cheering this on right up to the point when they realize they no longer have a democracy, and are in fact now a slave to the dictator they put in place.

Wrong. They would be cheering well past this point. It's what they want.

 

[Aristaeus]

Agreed.

When leftie infiltrators decided to make the military political, they invite a political response.


Indeed, it has been... a failure of responsibility that we have NOT done this already.

Purge them, black ball them. Destroy the mechanisms by which they were put into place in the first place.

Never kid yourselves into thinking that people like this poster don't want a dictatorship. They do.

They will support it, defend it, and cheer for it.

 

[CaughtInThe]

And who will serve on the board?

That is the wrong question to be asking!!!!

 

[CaughtInThe]

Joseph McCarthy tried to do the same thing.

 

[Parker_Chess]

Turns out the Democrats were right. Trump is a fascist.

Wonder if MAGA will learn their lesson or admit they were wrong?

 

[Craig234]

Imagine Biden before he even took office set up a board to remove any generals who wouldn't follow illegal orders from him so he could use the military against trump supporters.

 

[Corbell]

Your post is embarrassing to you.

Buddy, we aren't buying your lies. Time for a purge.

 

[Corbell]

Never kid yourselves into thinking that people like this poster don't want a dictatorship. They do.

They will support it, defend it, and cheer for it.

It is cool the way you are afraid to address what I actually said.


That shows that you on some level know that I am completely right.

 

[Linc]

Again........this is nothing new for this OP and his general thirst for making nonsensical threads.

First, @RetiredUSN personally insults a poster.

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They didn't kiss the ring?

Then, he defends the GOP reich-wing purges of officers that didn’t kiss Trump’s ring.

 

[Corbell]

Imagine Biden before he even took office set up a board to remove any generals who wouldn't follow illegal orders from him so he could use the military against trump supporters.

The way you put forth your spin, as though it is fact, is just you admitting that you have no credibility.

 

[Linc]

He did manage it correctly. Biden bungled the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Already after the election a lot of countries in the Middle East are promising to purge Hamas. Trump isn't even president yet.

You support Trump releasing 5,000 Taliban prisoners that could fight against the Afghans.

 

[Aristaeus]

It is cool the way you are afraid to address what I actually said.


That shows that you on some level know that I am completely right.

I did address what you said. You want to remove top military brass who isn't loyal to Trump. It's literally how to be a dictator 1.01.

 

[ClaraD]

Trump didn't "manage" ISIS, he wiped it out by air power in coordination with ground troops mostly from Syria and Iraq

Operation Inherent Resolve - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

ISIS wasn’t wiped out. You have been lied to

 

[ClaraD]

Has there ever been an instance where the removal of upper level military commanders based on the politics of the political leader of a nation has worked out well for that nation?

Nope. 100% of the time it turns into a dictatorship

 

[ClaraD]

Great catch. The Secretary of the Navy failing to tell White House of prostate cancer and hospitalization. Great leadership, huh?

HIPAA a person’s health or disability is not your nor their boss’ ****ing business. It’s illegal to discriminate against someone for having cancer

 

[Jredbaron96]

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan don’t require an explanation.

Both those conflicts were determined primarily by the Bush Administration, not American generals.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

What does purge mean?

The US military I believe actually has to many generals right now especially compared to its past history

 

[ClaraD]

It's not up to me to answer the question I asked you about your description of what you did in the USN as compared to what US Marines do.

Your description:

"All taken together, we performed all the duties that the Marines did, before they were formed into a separate, sister service."

BUT, when questioned, you refuse to give the date that the United States Marines were - according to you - "formed into a separate, sister service".

That you don't know what you're talking about re the formation of the United States Marines is very apparent. And this fact calls into question everything you've claimed about your own - supposed - service in the United States Navy.

He didn’t serve.

 

[maxparrish]

After looking into this further, I am less concerned about the issue of "purging for loyalty" and more concerned about its effectiveness. This idea has been floated by some ex-military historians of George C Marshall as a solution to the CRT-DEI policies that water down merit over a political ideology. Advocates are modeling this idea on Marshall's 1940 "plucking board" which sought to rejuvenate a small and bureaucratic army before the US was forced to go to war.

The board consisted of six retired high-ranking officers and today would reputedly be something like this:

"A modern-day plucking board examining each record may aim to retire up to 1/3 of each senior officer cohort 120 days apart, beginning with current three- and four-stars. In one year (three boards), the DEI-complicit in each cohort could be headed toward retirement – or, into the DEI Industrial Complex where they belong – making room for the merit-based advancement of actual leaders. Something along this line is required for a future chief of staff or defense secretary to be able to put his “finger on the man [he] wanted,” as did Marshall with the support of his boss, Secretary of War Henry Stimson.​

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As in Marshall’s day, the selection of those capable of leading in battle remains “a duty . . . owed the state.” Before the war, however, another duty owed is to leaders worthy of the trust of families to send their young men into service. To meet these sober obligations, a requisite plucking awaits."​

A Time for Plucking - The Marshall Initiative

President Trump must follow the Marshall initiative and pluck the military of the LEADERLESS Generals, Admirals, and political appointees.

survivaldispatch.com

The "purge" isn't necessarily one of "fitness for duty" as it is, in the linked authors's view, one of changing the military DEI culture by retiring its advocates and "office desk" generals and making room for new "merit based" leaders.

I fully agree with @Captain Adverse and his desire to change the culture of advancement away from career office politicians and to real combat soldiers but I'm not sure this is the way to go about it.

We shall see.






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[ClaraD]

But not from doing their job competently.

It’s a glaring example of why politicians shouldn’t call the shots and why a General should be apolitical

 

[reinaert]

Mattis got the measure of the man very early. Anyone making excuses for Trump's attempt to Baathify the DoD should remind themselves of Mattis' assessment.

 

[ClaraD]

Despite 20 years of support and superior equipment.

What are you not getting!

Compared to what Biden would have preferred, another 20 years of involvement. He made it impossible for Biden to continue. Trump withdrew. We shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Um it was Biden that withdrew us from Afghanistan

 

[ClaraD]

I will decline to discuss operations any further than to assert that we cruised the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, and we made the Iran-Iraq war our business. Officially, we were "observers", and that's where the story ends.

Alex 100 for things that never happened. You weren’t there