Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Here’s a fun fact: Tucker Carlson, over whom a bunch of senior military officers tossed 240 years of non-partisanship out the window in order to chide for pointing out their myriad failures, has won just as many wars as our generals have during the last twenty years. He has also lost fewer wars.
So, basically, Tucker Carlson – who they lambaste for being like the other ~92 percent of Americans who were never in uniform – would have done less damage running our formerly indomitable military than the perfumed princes who run it now. Yet these generals and senior NCOs who got and internalized the SJW memo are utterly clueless. They are more engaged and interested in fighting TV hosts who embarrass them by exposing their failures, and snipe hunting for mystery extremist boogeymen in the ranks, than in preparing to defeat China in high-intensity conventional combat.
Let’s get beyond their utter breach of tradition, and their unpunished breaking of the regulations banning political activity in uniform in general and information operation targeting of U.S. citizens in particular. Let’s instead focus on how crummy a job these generals and senior sergeants and their eager minions did doing it. They completely misunderstood the battlespace.
They thought that all those Gallup polls listing “The Military” as America’s most respected institution would allow them to use their titles and uniforms and stuff leverage the support of the American people against this uppity pundit. But they totally failed, as usual. Citizens were outraged. Vets were livid – especially since we vets would have been handed our walking papers for this kind of garbage in our day.
Why did these military folks fail again? Because they did not understand that normal Americans have been serially betrayed by our institutions for the last couple decades, most painfully by those institutions that were supposed to look out for us. Academia, which we subsidize, teaches our kids that we are moral monsters. The media hews to the establishment narrative instead of jumping in to expose its depredations against us normal folks.
Even the FBI tossed out Inspector Erskine in favor of that looming doofus Jim Comey and tried to frame the president we picked to fix the establishment’s mess. While the military leadership’s betrayal was still shocking, we normal people immediately saw exactly what was happening again with this latest institution to fall. It too was betraying us in the name of wokeness. Thus, their cheesy, awkward ploy to exploit our support for the troops flopped worse than the Iraq war plan.
Oh wait, too soon?
Let’s understand something – the military has been running on empty for a long time. Thirty years ago right now, I was in Saudi Arabia in the wake of the Gulf War, the high point of American power. The military was rebuilt by visionaries who embraced high standards and focused on warfighting rebuilt the devastated post-Vietnam military and proved the concept in those sands by annihilating a relatively powerful nation’s entire force in six weeks of air war and 100 hours of ground war. We were not woke. We were not politically correct. We were just unbeatable.
Fast forward to 2021, as our military is are still chasing bandits around the Hindu Kush, as our forces still in Iraq are still getting rocketed and as we are still pouring troops into Syria for some damn reason. The Chinese are eating our lunch in the Western Pacific, but our military leadership pretend it’s 1945 and that the U.S. is still dominant. It thinks we’re unbeatable, but there’s no Chester Nimitz out there, and the Chinese are deadly serious, even as our leadership pretends boys can become girls and that paying for their snip surgery will make us more combat-ready.
When the Chinese choose to do it, they will take Taiwan. They will screen their flanks by wiping out our regional bases and they will sink every U.S. ship within range that hasn’t already been knocked out of action by colliding with a cargo boat. By the way, read the investigation of the utter incompetence and total failure of leadership that led to those two devastating and fatal collisions in recent years. Sickening – a total failure of leadership starting at the top.
The Chinese are a serious military, devoted to one thing: winning the coming war against the United States. Our military leadership is not serious. It has lost its edge and devoted itself to social experimentation while cheerleading itself into thinking everything is A-okay. It’s not.
This comes from the top, but unfortunately the commander-in-chief is busy with a Matlock marathon while the people pulling his puppet strings are interested only in ensuring that the military is fully absorbed into the ranks of the woke institutions. How can you expect a civilian leadership in China’s pocket to prep to fight it?
But there is hope. The first hopeful fact is that our illusions have been stripped away and many people who once eagerly supported the brass thinking that by doing so they were supporting our troops now understand that all is far from well. Citizens are mobilizing to resist this trend. The second hopeful fact is that, as a hierarchical organization, we can bring the military back quickly, once we get real civilian leadership again.
Soldiers do what commanders check. If commanders check wokeness, you’ll get wokeness. But if commanders check warfighting readiness, you’ll get warfighting readiness. It starts at the top. We don’t necessarily need a GOP president who has served, just one who refuses to be dazzled by the badges and medals on the generals’ uniforms. Some public firing and savvy hiring and a new Republican president can set the military right fast. The troops want to be warriors, and not the social justice kind. They will follow if they are properly led.
But for the next few years, things will get worse before they get better, and it will be our young troops who will pay the price for this frivolous nonsense. After all, there are enemies out there a lot more dangerous than Tucker – and our failed military leadership could not even beat him.
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The twinkle toe brigade could not defeat Aunt Bea in battle.
Yep. Imagine how badly they’d be beaten by Ernest T. Bass.
One brick through the window and they would go crying home to mommy.
Think about the contrasting images. Milley crying in public about women’s “progress” in Afghanistan and promoting depravity and mental illness as the future of the military.
Tucker Carlson on Hickok45 firing machine-guns.
Tucker Carlson’s house being attacked by Antifa. “Bachelor” Milley ashamed to be seen with Trump as he symbolically took back the streets in DC.
Brave talk show host vs. cowering wimp political general.
OK, I did enjoy this one, Kurt. And I really like watching Tucker. It’s my one TV addiction left. He pokes his finger into every sacred establishment’s eyes and does so with intelligence and, especially humor. That’s very important. These monsters who lord over us need credibility. It’s how the few rule the many. Contempt they can ignore, ask Newsome or Cuomo. But being laughed at scares them. It pulls the mask away. Speaking of which take that pompous asshole John Kerry being caught without a mask. His response is hilariously ridiculous. He’s so mediocre. It reminds me of Minnesota Fats’ line about some phony: He’s like whipped cream on a hot dog.
The great James Howard Kunstler nailed Kerry long time ago: “A haircut in search of a brain”.
When a senior NCO looks into the camera and says with complete conviction that having women on maternity leave makes us a far more lethal military, you know the brainwashing is complete.
We probably would have won in Vietnam if only we’d had women fighting (and taking maternity leaves).
Dad wore six stripes and a diamond. I doubt he would have been on board with anything like we see today.
Yep. Woman are a liability in the front line and anyone who says differently has never been in combat. That NCO probably doesn’t actually believe his own words, but like everyone in the very hierarchical organization that is the military, wants to climb the ladder. And to do that, you have to toe the line.
The problem, Kurt, is that the USA doesn’t have a few years to get its act together…And there are no signs that the Republicans are interested in doing so…
Which of the wars since Vietnam have even been wars we should have gotten involved in? Were there any? Was it our job to maintain the Kuwaiti monarchy after April Glaspie told Saddam – our former ally of sorts and customer for our chemical weapons – he could invade there? Iraq II, Afghanistan – were these not debacles? Schlichter wants a more capable military. I’m not sure why. So we can stop China from exerting influence in … the South China Sea? We can’t keep writing checks that can’t be cashed. It’s not just that we shouldn’t be policeman to the world, it’s that we can’t. Tranny soldiers and pregnant troops only underscore that fact – which preexisted the new Woke Army. As Madeleine Albright said right before we took the side of Muslims against Christians in Yugoslavia, “what’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t even use it?”. Exactly. The “superb military” is a problem unto itself. It’s time to start telling the 92% who haven’t “served” (served Israel, the globalists and and the military industrial complex) “Thank you for your non-service.”
ALL wars are bankers’ wars!
There are the scum like Cheney and his Haliburton connections. Supplying the Iraq war with all sorts of inferior goodies for billions. Profiteers in the war industry love wars.
What amazes me is these scum get into political life to enrich themselves and the ‘people’ turn a blind eye to it all and do nothing when they should be kicked to the curb and sent to prison. NEVER trust a career political…. never.
We really kicked Grenada’s ass. USA USA.
You’re welcome.
A friend of mine was an MP on Grenada. They had him searching out marijuana patches in the hinterlands and trying to catch the weed farmers.
The worry today is this “woke” military the Demsheviks hope to turn on us with General Fruitcake in charge. We only need a Navy and Marine Expeditionary forces. We should not have a standing army.
Special Forces, officers and NCO’s could make an army of 50-100,000 who are predesignated to lead the platoons, companies, battalions etc. that would be filled by a draft or NG in a national emergency. Such a skeleton force would provide professional leadership when needed and the rest of the time not be a bomb waiting for some idiot politician to set off right in our midst.
Fortunately not everyone in the military, including top leadership, agree with a few outspoken SJW princesses.
And No, Kurt, defeating an Iraqi military with outdated equipment, whose air force had been sent to Iran and most of whose troops couldn’t wait to surrender , doesn’t count as a win…that Iraq, of course, is now allied with Iran and hostile to the US, which Sadam (on the CIA payroll) was not….
Sorry, but the Kurt is wrong. Things won’t get better after a republican becomes Potus in 2024 for the simple reason that the 2024 elections will be as fraudulent as the 2020 ones. It needs to be tattooed on every conservative’s forehead that there will never be a free and fair election again unless the fraud of Nov 3 2020 is sorted out. And there is no sign there will be. And as for the military, those above the rank of major are corrupt or cowards, while those below Colonel will follow orders whatever they are, including shooting innocent Americans or anyone who tries to stop the DS. The only hope is We, The People.
There is but one answer: death bots. I can design and build one in my garage for the right funding, but why we risk our Men and Women in 3rd world hell holes defies imagination. Vietnam was a hedge against the domino effect (much longer discussion). Tucker is right in the mis-focus of the high command. A woke soldier won’t pull the trigger on the oppressed victim who is trying to kill him/her/or the unborn.
Too bad they won’t consider ‘us’ oppressed victims.
Maybe Tucker is becoming suicidal lately. You never know until it is too late.
Here’s a fun fact: Tucker Carlson, over whom a bunch of senior military officers tossed 240 years of non-partisanship out the window in order to chide for pointing out their myriad failures, has won just as many wars as our generals have during the last twenty years.
What war(s) have our generals won in the last two decades…sure not Iraq?