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Comments on: Wake Up And Smell The Brasso https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/11/wake-up-and-smell-the-brasso/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:08:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/11/wake-up-and-smell-the-brasso/comment-page-1/#comment-29354 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:08:22 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/11/wake-up-and-smell-the-brasso/#comment-29354 Most just shut up and retire a grade lower than normal. That’s why you see all of the retired generals coming out and complaining. The retired flags are speaking for the few in service flags trying to preserve their personal integrity.

First off we have way to many generals and admirals. A full general should command an army, which about 100,000 soldiers. We only have a total of 2 million people in uniform of all types, which says we should have a maximum of 20 four-star flag officers in all of the services, but we are thick with them. We are top heavy with no one in the lower middle range. we are short of the O-3s and O-4s [captains and majors] among officers, and the E-5s and E-6s [sergeants and staff sergeants] among non-commissioned officers. These are the people who lead the troops in battle.

We have plenty of people to devise plans, but are woefully short of the people to carry them out, because they burn out from frequent deployments.

The military needs to withdraw and rebuild. They need to dump a lot of the dead wood at the top and bring in people who know what the orders and plans mean on the ground for the troops.

]]> By: whig https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/11/wake-up-and-smell-the-brasso/comment-page-1/#comment-29352 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:27:39 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/11/wake-up-and-smell-the-brasso/#comment-29352 So what happens to the cashiered generals and flag officers who wouldn’t toe the line?

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/11/wake-up-and-smell-the-brasso/comment-page-1/#comment-29341 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:47:22 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/11/wake-up-and-smell-the-brasso/#comment-29341 Lousy bosses are lousy bosses no matter what kind of suit they wear. If you look at bios of general officers you can see the point at which they gave up and started kissing up to the higher ups. They will sit at a grade for years, then they start rocketing through promotions.

I would be happier about Petraeus if I thought he was stupid. He wrote the book on counter-insurgency so he knew the timeline was total garbage when he accepted it, and he knew that you can’t change people’s attitudes after years of abuse.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/11/wake-up-and-smell-the-brasso/comment-page-1/#comment-29337 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:33:47 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/11/wake-up-and-smell-the-brasso/#comment-29337 You don’t even have to be critical of the brass to draw howls of outrage from the right-wing chorus: all you have to do is point out that the flag officers are, or even might be, objectively factually wrong in their statements. If “supporting the troops” means pretending that Petraeus is infallibly accurate in his statements, there’s something deeply wrong with the nut-case Right’s notion of “supporting the troops” … no matter how much or little one admires Petraeus.

(I still think a War Tsar should make appearances in a series of “Tsar Wars” movies…)

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