[WarriorDiplomat]

Originally Posted by glebo

Well, as least he stated an opinion. Sometimes the truth hurts??? But, being an O-3, with who knows what experience, at least he said what's on his mind...

Often of which I see not with some of todays LDRS, O's and NCO's....seems they want "status quo".... At least here in SWC anyway...

I agree the status quo problems have driven the truth to power narrative....I don't disagree with the CPT but he more than likely committed career suicide by putting the United States on blast especially with the tensions we have with Russia. Kind of hard for a President to project power to our enemies when a military officer discredits your military publicly as inept on a peer to peer level.

If he is a true believer and he is getting out anyway then good on him we IMO have to sometimes embarrass are brass IOT get their horsepower to fix things that everyone knows is broken.

I think it is a shame that our Generals have levels of careerists below them clouding the reality IOT further their own careers. Kind of like the females in combat arms issue god forbid any would say it was a bad idea without getting fired and we wonder why we have an issue with capitulating careerist and truth to power???Funny enough Saddam Husseins military leaders did the same thing leading up to OIF, the sheer amount of deceit out of fear of Saddams response to the issue allowed to the point of propping up armament they knew was junk or broken to create the illusion of the 4th largest and therefore 4th most powerful military in the world. For crying out loud each soldier actually had 10 rds per man except the Republican guard they were props nothing but numbers on the invasion and many were starving because of lack of logistics no wonder they surrendered without fighting some of them anyway.