tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post115818461048181205..comments2024-03-26T05:18:53.709-04:00Comments on Pen and Sword: Y.G.T.B.F.S.M., General ZilmanJeff Huberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146644937683409726noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-56233261255885795622011-05-27T11:13:42.597-04:002011-05-27T11:13:42.597-04:00Your comments on Gen Zilmer are of poor taste!Your comments on Gen Zilmer are of poor taste!KDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07874646405759621994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-1158621201906327362006-09-18T19:13:00.000-04:002006-09-18T19:13:00.000-04:00Musical objectives. Thanks for the post. Give me a...Musical objectives. Thanks for the post. Give me an idea for a future article.Jeff Huberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14146644937683409726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-1158434437698944402006-09-16T15:20:00.000-04:002006-09-16T15:20:00.000-04:00This is certainly an era of extremely opaque press...This is certainly an era of extremely opaque press comments. Of course a report on al Anbar did not address the entire country. I think all the generals that have commented on the report have agreed with it, including Chiarelli.<BR/><BR/>Al Anbar is not a priority because we need to re-take Baghdad again. Devlin's report is a tautology: we are not winning a counterinsurgency because we are not trying to win a counterinsurgency. Defeating the AQ insurgency (which seems like a reasonable mission objective) is not a mission objective.<BR/><BR/>Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.Bravo 2-1https://www.blogger.com/profile/05219307722101813302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-1158325113178376842006-09-15T08:58:00.000-04:002006-09-15T08:58:00.000-04:00Good point, Joe. There's an entire block of offic...Good point, Joe. There's an entire block of officers above the O-something level who are playing the Rummy game, and it's going to take, what, a generation to let them die off? That's bad juju, when most of the senior officer corps has no credibility with their subordinates.Jeff Huberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14146644937683409726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-1158278149141549312006-09-14T19:55:00.000-04:002006-09-14T19:55:00.000-04:00What's even more interesting is that the generals ...What's even more interesting is that the generals quoted recently in the press have said almost verbatim the same thing "We have sufficient force levels", which is the DoD mantra of Donny. I guess that the real word comes back through Jack Murtha and other "outsiders" hooked into the back-channels at the Pentagram. <BR/><BR/>I, for one, don't believe that any sentient being above the rank of 0-3 in Iraq wearing a US uniform believes that there are sufficient force levels for the mission as it's been scoped out. Now that seems to be becoming the case in Afghanistan as well. Unfortunately, it's going to be either hearings in 2007 in a Democratic congress or post-2008 election before the truth begins to come out. Shinseki will be vindicated, in toto, by the military establishment. The question them becomes how to bring the sorry mess to a satisfactory close.<BR/><BR/>Gordon has an iteresting post up about the military in the late days of Vietnam. I remember how it was for the Navy in the period of 1972-79, and it was not always pretty. Had it not been for Elmo Zumwalt, it might have been the worse for the wear. I wonder who the Army's Elmo Zumwalt will be? They're gonna need one, badly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-1158237507496606342006-09-14T08:38:00.000-04:002006-09-14T08:38:00.000-04:00I could almost feel sorry for Zilmer. But then I ...I could almost feel sorry for Zilmer. But then I remember that he chose to pursue high rank--nobody forced him have the ambition it takes to become a general.Jeff Huberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14146644937683409726noreply@blogger.com