In the last week of April, 1944, in the 244th week of World War II, when a fierce and determined Soviet Army was preparing to attack Nazi Germany, from the Arctic to the Black Sea; when across the English Channel, the Allies were amassing the greatest amphibious invasion force in History, to breach his Fortress Europe; Adolf Hitler, the Fuehrer, the Head of the Nazi Party, the Head of the German Government and the Head of the German State, made a pronouncement to German generals.
He told them, in no uncertain terms, that there was only one way to victory, a true, sincere belief in the reigning Ideology. He told them, that competence on the battlefield no longer mattered; he told them that Competence could no longer ensure victory; only blind devotion to Nazism could win the day. In military matters, in existential matters, in life and death matters, placing ideological devotion over competence is madness. Hitler placed ideological devotion over competence; and lost his war. Looking back on that pronouncement, in 2023, sentient observers find it ludicrous.
Yet, in America, in 2023, America’s Commander-in-Chief, Joe Biden, has followed Hitler’s lead, devaluing competence for ideology, the ideology of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) in the American Military.
Joe Biden has pacified his Liberal congregation by telling lame jokes at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Dinner jokes as American society deteriorates into CLOCKWORK ORANGE writ large; lame jokes as violent madness grips the land; poorly timed attempts at humor as the person next to Americans, on the subway, or bus is a potential berserker or predator or assassin.
Nero played his fiddle as Rome burned; Biden does a stand-up routine as America implodes into social dystopia.
Every sane, rational, sentient American, which discounts delusional Liberals, must understand that Joe Biden is the most dangerous person ever to sit in the White House; for he is a fanatic, an ideologue. His ideology is DEI; the joking madman truly believes that DEI is a magic wand, a magic potion, a magic spell; and if one believes hard enough, it can banish any need for competence.
Biden’s devotion to DEI was a quaint aberration, not especially threatening to the survival of the Republic; until he applied his DEI dementia to the American Military.
But he did; he is addicted to DEI. And now, even though America has the most people living on its soil in History, in excess of 330 million; including roughly 17 million illegal aliens; it cannot staff its Military adequately.
In military circles, there is a syndrome called the Sukhomlinov Effect; named after the Czarist Minister of War, General Sukhomlinov; who was known for his splendiferous uniforms. The Effect is that armies with splendid uniforms will lose to ragtag dressed armies; because the well- dressed army devotes so much time trying to look splendiferous, it cannot concentrate on winning wars.
In Joe Biden’s America, the Sukhomlinov Effect has been replaced by the BIDEN DEI EFFECT; America’s military leadership is so concerned about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, it is incapable of spending adequate time on figuring out how to win wars.
The Biden DEI Effect is that so much time, effort and considerations are given to the social consciousness of the military leaders; that none of those commodities are left over to nurture military skill. Which is why every year, the chances of the Republic winning another war diminishes.
DEI can be tolerated on PBS NEWSHOUR broadcasts, or MSNBC or in the newsroom of the NEW YORK TIMES; no Americans’ existence is dependent on how many diverse representatives can be stuffed into jobs they cannot do well.
But that DEI Grace should not be applied to America’s Military; for they protect the very air that Americans breathe.
Joe Biden is gambling with the future of the Republic, nay the security of the Republic, nay the existence of the Republic, in order that he is honored in future history books by a polka dot transsexual historian; who is a cannibal ( American society being run by Polka dot cannibal transsexuals is the inevitable result of DEI)..
This Blogger’s analysis begs some questions: the first being: why would Liberals be satisfied with Joe Biden telling jokes, while their Republic’s defense commits DEI suicide?
Answer: the current American culture no longer values competence, or the ability to make correct existential decisions or reality itself. American culture has been subsumed and devoured by the worship of show business logic.
Case in Point: former relevant Korean American comedian Margaret Cho was on the DIVERSE television program, THE VIEW; Cho made the following startling statement: “ I have seen everything in life.”
Not one of the female panelists, all Biden supporters, admonished her; having a failed television program, being booed at comedy clubs, being oppressed for being an ugly lesbian is not the end all of life.
Audie Murphy killed 264 Nazis; this Blogger’s brother killed an Imperial Japanese sniper on Saipan; this Blogger knows men who have assassinated enemies of the Republic. This Blogger posits that those individuals have seen more in Life than a has been comedian.
However, the ladies of the VIEW would disagree with this Blogger; to them, and the culture at large, show business matrixes are more important than existential reality.
QUESTION NUMBER 2-Why can’t applying DEI improve the American Military?
Soldiers who have risked everything for the Republic in combat, want the following: To come home alive, to come home intact; to come home with honor; to come home a winner.
Soldiers who have been at risk, in harm’s way, understand that 50% of their orders will be stupid; more if their commander is stupid (see General Mark Clark).
Combat soldiers in combat want to be led. “We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way…General George Patton.”
The basic fallacy in Biden’s DEI religion is the belief military skills are equally distributed and merely need an opportunity to blossom. That belief is why DEI is foolish gibberish; in all the recorded history of organized warfare, since Sargon the Great, there have been, twenty great military leaders; and some of the greatest have met defeat on the battlefield, like Hannibal and Napoleon.
What should the Republic be looking at in its military leaders?
Not DEI, but CONTROL. A great leader must control his men; combat is chaotic; half of of the time, orders are stupid. Great military leaders must control his men. Jokes don’t control combat soldiers.
Combat soldiers are prone to mutiny; even Alexander the Great’s veterans mutinied; Washington’s troops mutinied (which he put down savagely by having the mutineers shot by their friends); Cromwell’s troops mutinied. The British Navy mutinied; and the French Army mutinied.
Does anyone think that any of the raised consciousness commanders, promoted by Biden, will be able to put down a mutiny by the force of their DEI personalities? One cannot train commanders to put down a mutiny; they can either do it or not; and DEI saturated commanders won’t be able to.
Question number 3: if we do not have DEI Commanders, isn’t the alternative racist commanders?
Yes.
But ask the Black mother: which commander would she rather have leading her son/daughter into combat? The one who appreciates her child’s hairstyle? Or the one who can bring her child home, alive, intact, with honor and as a winner.
We must remember, what Joe Biden has forgotten; that the military is not a social organization per se. It is a killing machine, a Mafioso, a Yakuza, Mamelukes, in uniform.
Great Commanders must be prepared to send their troops into combat; to kill other human beings.
This is why the best combat commanders are not DEI inspired, but misanthropes. It takes a misanthrope to burn thousands of Japanese civilians to a crisp; like Curtis LeMay did; when he unleashed fire bombs on Tokyo.
The basic well of superb military leadership is misanthropy; the greatest commanders refine the misanthropy; narrow it to hate the enemy, rather than his own troops.
Since misanthropy is the foundation of good military leadership, racism in America’s military has been a natural outgrowth. America’s greatest generals have been racists: Daniel Morgan, Winfield Scott, William Sherman, Phil Sheridan ( “the only good Indian is a dead Indian.”), George Thomas, Douglas MacArthur, and George Patton.
Joe Biden’s DEI wants to deny Black, Native American, and Hispanic warriors a chance to win wars, and come home alive, intact; because the best of the Army’s commanders do not like Blacks, or Hispanics personally.
If racism in its Commanders is the price that America must pay to bring its boys home alive, sobeit.
The women of THE VIEW would disagree; but they have never been at risk or shot at by capable enemies.
Potential American warriors are declining to volunteer, to serve, to risk, because they are afraid Joe Biden’s DEI Commanders will be incapable of either delivering victory, or bringing them home alive, with honor. Army recruitment, since DEI was installed, is the lowest in decades; America does not have enough volunteer warriors to protect the outspoken women of THE VIEW.
Now, this Blogger would like to address the renaming of Army bases.
FORT LEE in New Jersey was renamed FORT GREGG/ADAMS.
“MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Good morning. I'm Michel Martin. An Army base in Virginia has been renamed from Fort Lee, for the Confederate General Robert E. Lee, to Fort Gregg-Adams after two officers - the late Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams, the first Black officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, and Lieutenant General Arthur Gregg, the Army's first Black three-star general. At a ceremony yesterday, Gregg, who's 94, said he hopes the base's new name will instill pride in every soldier entering our mighty gates….NPR.”
This Blogger understands that Colonel Adams was a good and decent person, and a fine officer. General Gregg is a good and decent man, and a fine officer.
When this Blogger was working in the military/industrial complex, he was taught that Army bases were not named after living personages; that would create a cult of personality.
But Joe Biden DEI’s Army scuttled that rule; because General Gregg is a good and decent man; a Black man who did not own slaves, and did not betray his oath of allegiance; who is 94. Besides they wanted a good photo op.
The problem this Blogger has with General Gregg being so honored; is that he was a logistics hero, timely supplies. Logistics are always important; and American military thinking believes it is American mastery of logistics that gives the American military its edge.
Alas, this Blogger is Old School; he thinks American Combat Courage is the defining trait in America’s historical success.
Not to denigrate General Gregg, but this Blogger would have liked to have seen FORT LEE re-named FORT RANGEL, after the living Black military hero, non-general, Charles Rangel.
“In late November 1950, after the Chinese intervention into the war Rangel’s unit was caught in heavy fighting in North Korea as part of the U.N. forces retreat from the Yalu River. In the Battle of Kunu-ri, the 2nd Infantry was assigned to hold a road position near Kunu-ri while the rest of the Eighth Army retreated to Sunchon, 21 miles further south. On the night of November 29, the 2nd Infantry was attacked by gradually encircling forces of the Chinese Army, who set up a fireblock to cut off any U.S. retreat. The eerie blare of Chinese night-fighting bugle calls and communication flares piercing the freezing air led to what Rangel later described as a "waking nightmare, scene by scene, and we couldn't see any possible way out of the situation". During the day on November 30, the order came to withdraw the 2nd Infantry in phases, but the 503rd Artillery Battalion was sixth of eight in the order and could not get out in daylight when air cover was possible.
On the night of November 30, Rangel was part of a retreating vehicle column that was trapped and attacked by Chinese forces. In the subzero cold Rangel was hit in the back by shrapnel from a Chinese shell. He later wrote that the blast threw him into a ditch, causing him to pray fervently to Jesus. Up and down the line of the retreat, unit cohesion disappeared under attack and officers lost contact with their men.There was screaming and moaning around him and some U.S. soldiers were being taken prisoner,but despite feeling overwhelming fear Rangel resolved to try to escape over an imposing mountain: "From the rim of that gully it just looked like everything had to be better on the other side of that damn mountain."
Others nearby looked to Rangel, who though only a private first class had a reputation for leadership in the unit and had gained the nickname "Sarge". Rangel led some 40 men from his unit over the mountain during the night and out of the Chinese encirclement. Other groups were trying to do the same, but some men dropped from the severe conditions or got lost and were never heard from again. By midday on December 1, U.S. aircraft were dropping supplies and directions to Rangel's group and others, and had a raft ready to take them across the Taedong River; groups from the 503rd Artillery reached Sunchon that afternoon. Overall, no part of the 2nd Infantry suffered as many casualties as the artillery;…. nearly half of the battalion was killed in the overall battle.
Rangel was awarded a Purple Heart for his wounds, the Bronze Star with Valor for his actions in the face of death, and three battle stars. His Army unit was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation.”
That was America’s old Military: “uncommon valor was a common virtue.”
We will conclude this Blog by taking a peek at Joe Biden’s new DEI Military.
“CNN — President Joe Biden on Monday announced he has nominated two female generals to positions as 4-star combatant commanders ...Biden nominated Lt. General Van Ovost of the Air Force to commander of United States Transportation Command and Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson of the Army to commander of United States Southern Command would make them the second and third woman to lead a Combatant Command if confirmed by the Senate.
Biden, during remarks on International Women’s Day at the White House on Monday, called Van Ovost and Richardson “two outstanding and eminently qualified warriors and patriots.”
“Each of these women have led careers demonstrating incomparable skill, integrity, and duty to country. And at every step, they’ve also helped push open the doors of opportunity to women in our military, blazing the trail, a little wider, a little brighter, for all proud women following their path and looking to their example,” the President said.
On Monday, Biden noted that Van Ovost, a first generation American, flew Air Force Two when he served as vice president during the Obama administration, as well as highlighted Richardson’s work as commanding general of US Army North, coordinating the military’s medical personal deployed to help with the coronavirus response…CNN.”
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