Angry Staff Officer

See the response to the first post, I dropped the link there

Yes, I know who John Brown was, thanks

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Bartender at a casual prominent DC bar

“Who’s John Brown?”

Reader, I despair.

He, like the country, ain’t well

Not the first time Rogers had been arrested. He was thrown in jail on suspicion of murder in New York in 1764, only to be busted out by drunken Royal American Regiment dudes who wounded the jailer with a bayonet. NY militia arrested 6 Regulars while Rogers took off on horseback

Narrator voice: He did not, in fact, keep that promise

That’s the one

It was something Meta fed me and I noped out of it hard after Gen George swigged the energy drink

Something something we don’t do product endorsements something something code of ethics

This evening’s absolute random-ass posting brought to you by me seeing the Army Chief of Staff (our highest ranking officer) doing a podcast with some energy drink brofluincers which made me think about the state of the “Profession” and blech

He then spent the rest of his life trying to define masculinity and war.

He would have absolutely been an internet influencer and would have been incredibly insufferable.

William Faulkner was too short to join the US Army Air Service in WWI, so went to Canada and joined the Royal Canadian Flying Corps but they were like “no, too short” so he was a maintainer and never left Canada

Returned to the US after the war, wearing unearned wings, medals, & bragged of a wound

A good example of “yes, your career CAN recover from a bad tactical day that turns into a strategic problem, ask me how”

Never meet your Civil War heroes after the war is pretty much the sum of it. Highly egotistical general in 1898 and beyond, oversaw bad stuff in the Philippines, and obstructed William Howard Taft’s attempts of build a civil government for the country

As historian Brian Linn points out, had MacArthur not been coddled by the army because of his important daddy (also a jackass), he would’ve been kicked out as a lieutenant for failing to meet the standards brought on by the Elihu Root reforms to the Army

NONFICTION Robert McNamara Loved Efficiency. Then Came the Vietnam War.

I mean…yeah, that about sums it up

(Oh and of course Doug MacArthur stayed quiet the whole time because Doug, if presented a list of options that weren’t ending hazing at USMA, Island Hopping, and Inchon, could always be expected to pick the worst of all possible options)

HW Bush did a helluva lotta damage when he brought them into the GOP

He did finally give voice, but too late, I agree. Especially for someone like Marshall.

I reappraised my image after reading “Stilwell in China”

Well, sort of. He first attacked him in 1951 and kept at it until his downfall in 1954

And also partly because McCarthy was such a loser that he couldn’t handle it when people were more talented than he was. Which was almost everyone.

Give someone like that any bit of power and they will rapidly spiral into personal attacks out of spite

Mostly because Marshall had integrity and because the right wing evangelical pro-nationalist China focus groups were trying to smear both Marshall and Gen Stilwell for daring to point out that Chiang Kai-shel kinda sucked and that the Communist forces were far better trained

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

The number of who confuse “political” with “partisan” is honestly shocking

Military officers should have civ-mil relations embedded as a core part of their PME directly at commissioning, not once they reach field grade

Maybe then it might sink in

SPILL TEA, O MUSE, 'BOUT ACHILLES FLIPPING HIS SHIT

The first step is finding it

Excuse moi. He is REGAL