Robin Olds

[besilarius]

http://www.jqpublicblog.com/robin-olds-so-much-more-than-a-consummate-warrior/

These issues seem to be a generational problem.  The longer you have a peace, the more emphasis is on spit-n-polish instead of warrior skills.

[Toonces]

^ Not specifically directed at that article, but reading some of the other articles on that site I can't help but feel I've read it all before...over and over and over again.

The military recognizing senior enlisted/officers who "punch the right tickets", "tick the right squares", or whatever euphamism you'd like to choose, over the "warfighter" has been going on forever and ever.  In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this is an institutional- I want to say problem but perhaps the right word is status- that has existed for 50+ years.  Maybe the answer isn't to keep trying to change things, but rather embrace the way things are and work within the system?

The military is what it is.  Every time the good idea fairy comes up with a new way to fix the system, we end up with the status quo all over again.

[Toonces]

Having said that, Robin Olds is a fucking stud.   O0

[GDS_Starfury]

but whats interesting is the absolute ass kicking power of the US military.  if our institutional systems are that fucked up imagine how much further worse the rest of the world is.

[Centurion40]

^ Not specifically directed at that article, but reading some of the other articles on that site I can't help but feel I've read it all before...over and over and over again.

The military recognizing senior enlisted/officers who "punch the right tickets", "tick the right squares", or whatever euphamism you'd like to choose, over the "warfighter" has been going on forever and ever.  In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this is an institutional- I want to say problem but perhaps the right word is status- that has existed for 50+ years.  Maybe the answer isn't to keep trying to change things, but rather embrace the way things are and work within the system?

The military is what it is.  Every time the good idea fairy comes up with a new way to fix the system, we end up with the status quo all over again.

I think that the same could be said in any institutional bureaucracy, anywhere.

[Airborne Rifles]

For a somewhat different perspective, here's a duffle blog article that's a response to the rash of articles and open letters written by junior officers over the past few years about how broken the bureaucracy in the military is. It's about 5% satire, 95% truth IMO:

http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/04/jcs-dont-care-youre-resigning/

[Barthheart]

For a somewhat different perspective, here's a duffle blog article that's a response to the rash of articles and open letters written by junior officers over the past few years about how broken the bureaucracy in the military is. It's about 5% satire, 95% truth IMO:

http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/04/jcs-dont-care-youre-resigning/

It has never been easier to publish a scholarly article on the profession of arms, whether in one of our many journals or on any one of numerous military blogs. All of you managed to find venues to publish your resignation letters talking about all the great ideas you couldn't find ways to circulate. None of us can figure out why you couldn't just publish your actual ideas instead.

That is brilliant! Thanks for the read.