Tom Ricks has a great guest post up about the military's propensity to create a lot of its own problems: Never have so few been supervised by so many doing so little. For the last ten years, the terms "field grade oversight" and "adult supervision" have been used entirely too
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Just now noticing it?
Lex just now has a post up-noting that DOD has started to trim the ranks of its flag officers. The article he cites points out that DOD is making about a 10% cut in the number of Flag Officers it has. He bemoans the fact they are not being given
Continue readingIt’s about time……
I realize with Arnold banging his housekeeper, its hard to focus on anything else ( don’t people use condoms anymore?). But one United States Senator has his eye on the ball: U.S. Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), and Jim Webb (D-Va.) have issued a statement declaring that the
Continue readingBecause some fights are worth picking-Unbalanced Part II
Some things take longer than a comment block to explain. Accordingly-since this is my blog and I will write what I want to- I have decided to address commenter Michael Junge’s comments in a more lengthy fashion. After all, not everything in the world can be reduced to a Power Point
Continue readingAn un-enterprising mindset….
This post is not so lovingly dedicated to Phib’s commenter Anathema, who was the central figure in the comment fest over at his place. The veracity with which he defends the flawed decision making of our gutless Naval Leadership-compels me to write this post. Please forward to him if you
Continue readingThe Midas touch…..
Or why the place that Skippy works is on the express train to hell-no local stops. To understand why-lets review some ancient mythological history: The old satyr had been drinking wine and had wandered away drunk, later to be found by some Phrygian peasants, who carried him to their king,
Continue readingAre you guys happy now?
Well, DADT has been repealed. As I noted previously this was inevitable, if not now, then at sometime in the future. So can we please now tell Andrew Sullivan to STFU about it? The fact that I have to resignedly accept this development-does not mean that I like it. I
Continue readingLets make a deal, Army style……
Still more than a few folks steamed about having their headgear stolen, I presume:
Continue readingGoing in to see the old man…….
When its time for the FITREP debrief. If any of you have spent time, in or around the Air Force, this little video is going to ring very, very, true. Especially the discussion of Squadron Officers School-my roomate from college, who went in the Air Force used almost those very
Continue readingThe repeal of DADT
I was going through my archives the other day, and I came upon a couple of posts I had written about gay marriage. Judging by the angry comments they both recieved-you would have thought I was caught red-handed molesting puppies or something. When in reality, all I was voicing was
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