Disgrace Under Pressure

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Indeed.

One of the more entertaining things to witness regarding the Iran conflict is to watch the “credentialed” class of milbloggers twist themselves into pretzels to laud the skill and courage of America’s fighting men and women in accomplishing all of their assigned missions so spectacularly, while at the exact same time carefully avoiding giving any credit to President Trump, SecWar Hegseth or Gen Caine.

And then there are the Democrats.

26 Replies to “Disgrace Under Pressure”

  1. Cui bono? And how do they benefit (or rather ‘how have they benefited?’) with the status quo? They’ve had a nice little gig; how does the current administration upset that?
    The Democrats’ motives are at least understandable, but the milbloggers have been a bit of a disconcerting surprise for many because assumptions. Perhaps hindsight will give clarification.

    1. You don’t mean “Cuey” Bono, Sonny and Cher’s pool-playing cousin, do you? I think he had a catch phrase about “billiards and billiards of stars” or something.

      1. His father was the legendary pool shark, “Pro” Bono. Fine player, but never really made any money.

  2. It will be interesting to find out if Trump, Hegseth, and Caine, set broad objectives and let the theatre commanders execute as they saw fit, or if Trump, Hegseth, and Caine micromanaged the campaign.

    1. Successful leaders leverage the skills and expertise of their ‘troops’. Developers like Trump leverage the myriad skills and expertise of an incredible panoply of Architects, Engineers, Tradespeople, Construction Managers, and Materials suppliers to get projects built. Micromanaging projects never ends well. But having a clear “vision” for that project, and keeping people ON TASK is very important.

      And as any pet owner has learned … reward incentives … get results.

      But it’s extremely important to discern who is ‘onboard’ with the “vision” … and who isn’t. It’s highly instructive to me that Pete Hegseth FIRED several high ranking career military bureaucrats just as this rescue was unfolding. If you want to call that “micromanaging” … then so be it. But getting naysaying nattering nabobs OUT of the command chain is an essential element to success.

      Behold what can get accomplished when idiotic ROE … designed by Harvard graduates get stripped away to reflect the REAL world … not some idiotic academic construct

      1. Kenji

        I wouldn’t call firing generals micromanaging.

        By micromanaging, as an example I am referring to the tendency of past US presidents such as Johnson and Obama to approve individual bombing targets.

        1. Obama et al micromanaged the conflict against ISIS, and it dragged on for years with no progress. Trump came into office and gave decision making back to officers in the field, and it was over in a few months.

          It would be reasonable to assume Trump is using the same format.

      2. It looks like the ones that got fired recently, including the Chief of Staff, head Padre and guy in charge of training and transition were involved in what I would call the educational and training system, indoctrination, etc. This may point to a failure to get with the program regarding DEI, LGBT and other ideologies the Trump admin wanted purged from the system. Hegseth and Trump were very clear this had to go, and holdovers from the Obama and Biden regime were probably dragging their feet or were not implementing changes as needed i.e. hiding or renaming them. Just like academia does. None of these guys are involved with Operations. Except maybe the Chief of Staff who cracks the whip over the staff.

        1. Operations is a key part, but not the only part, of a military. Look at what many of them were in charge of, and that tells you a lot.
          Some of these people were not, shall we say, exactly popular with the rank and file when they were more junior officers.
          And we’re top heavy with senior officers anyway; time to thin the ranks a bit. (by the way: it isn’t just the DEI/PC culture that is going to be targeted…hence another reason why so many of the ‘milbros’ are a bit verklempt; consider what their MOS were and it all starts to make sense).

    2. Give detailed parameters of the mission goal and then execute as they saw fit.

      1. Just what was the goal? What have been the goals of any of the last few wars? No strategic goals, no ends in sight, leading to Iraq, Afghanistan, the Bulkans. At least NATO will be no more, it should have folded in the ’90s when the Soviet Union did. We were once the Good Guys but now, we just go around bombing the shit of of little countries for training. Iran was a country too far.

        2. “…now, we just go around bombing the shit of of little countries for training…”

          Dude. WTF is wrong with you? You come -here- to regurgitate mindless Lefty talking points?

          As Kate says, eliminate the Mullah’s nuke program, nunber one. Done. Of late they seem to be enjoying making the rubble bounce, always a great passtime.
          2) screw over China’s fuel supply and thereby keep their navy in port and not attacking Taiwan. Done.
          3) un-aliving the mullahs is a worthy goal in and of itself, and the mass-unalivement of the originals is done. In progress on the rest of them, there are a lot to get through.
          4) vengeance for 40 years of Iranian terror attacks, in progress.
          5) kicking Europe in the balls, another worthy goal, ongoing. Seems like they need a lot of kicking.
          6) and closest to OUR hearts, kicking #Lieberal Canada in the balls. This worthy goal seems to be on the back-burner for now, they’re letting #CarkMarney have enough rope to hang himself. It’ll be fun to see if the Mighty Canadian Navy can actually send ships to the Straight of Hormuz to protect Irving’s tankers. I freakin’ strongly doubt it.

          Questions? Comments?

          3. The Mighty Canadian navy will be completely consumed with the defense of Greenland.

    3. Pretty obvious that decisions were made in the field. Anybody who thinks that a rapidly changing scenario on the ground can be micromanaged isn’t thinking straight.

    4. Trump was a remote viewer and sole policy setter; Hegseth the cheerleader and who the hell is Caine? The Pom-poms? It is wrong to think of any of the wars Trump is involved with, as successes; same as for Biden, Barry Soros and Dubbya.

      1. “It is wrong to think of any of the wars Trump is involved with, as successes…”

        So, quick question, is Maduro still Grand Poobah of Venezuela? Are they still running boats full of crack to Miami?

        Does Cuba have electricity? He didn’t even bomb Cuba.

      2. Define: “the wars Trump is involved with”
        And please, avoid generalizations and platitudes.. be specific as to what they are, and exactly how he is ‘involved with them’..

    5. “It will be interesting to find out if Trump, Hegseth, and Caine, set broad objectives and let the theatre commanders execute as they saw fit, or if Trump, Hegseth, and Caine micromanaged the campaign.”

      I would certainly hope they are smart enough to do the latter.

  3. POTUS, SecWar and CJCS DUMPED PC ROE
    .. that skill and courage has always been there. …it took a POTUS, SecWar and CJCS who focus on EFFECTIVENESS IN BATTLE and not social engineering…willing to take genuine risks, and who WILL NOT HOLD BACK OUR WARRIORS WITH INSANE ROE TO SHOW JUST HOW GREAT THAT SKILL AND COURAGE CAN BE WHEN FULLY AND FINALLY UNLEASHED.
    AT LAST that PC crap is gone.

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