America’s Generals Lied, Lost Wars,
And Looted The People They Claimed
To Serve
The Federalist,
by
Josiah Lippincott
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
8/7/2021 3:41:45 PM
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress in June that he wanted to understand “white rage,” why “thousands of people” tried “to assault this building and … overturn the Constitution of the United States of America.”
If Milley really wants to understand the “rage” of the American people he should start by asking why he and his fellow generals can’t win any wars. As a Marine Corps officer who served at the tail end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I saw firsthand the rapid ideological transformation pervading the military in the wake of these disasters in the Middle East.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/7/2021 3:57:59 PM (No. 871320)
The commies have been very successful with their long march through the institutions that has corrupted every aspect of American society and government. President Trump's American First policy threatened too many nests in every nook and cranny of the federal government. If there is to be a Great Reset, it must a revival and reanimation of our glorious and wise U.S. Constitution. We need to dump the Defense Department and return to the War Department, that has a singular focus on the safety and security of America.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/7/2021 4:24:19 PM (No. 871335)
Here is Josiah Lippincott. Somewhat more than “a student at Hillsdale College”…. Well worth a read:
https://gradschool.hillsdale.edu/Profiles/Josiah-Lippincott/
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/7/2021 4:26:23 PM (No. 871337)
(hit submit too soon)
Lippincott’s article is a powerful one. Well worth your time.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/7/2021 4:37:23 PM (No. 871345)
It's ironic how those retired generals who opposed Bush's Iraq War, and were vilified out here, turned out to be right.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
minuteman 8/7/2021 5:13:00 PM (No. 871382)
I feel like a fool now for supporting Georg W. Bush's idiotic wars.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chumley 8/7/2021 5:18:18 PM (No. 871384)
This isn't new. In the early 90's at my base the commander outlawed bad words. Then he sent the senior NCO's to all the barracks to listen at doors and around corners, and bust anyone caught using them.
Then in the late 1990's another one had the senior NCO's do no-knock inspections of barracks rooms looking for evidence of underage drinkers. The only reason he stopped was he kept violating "dont ask dont tell". He's also the genius that had a plan to send fire inspectors to the houses in base housing, pretending to look for fire hazards but really looking for evidence of smoking. That one was never implemented, but plenty of others were. He made life a living hell for everyone. A major defense contractor hired him after retirement, but at least he was out of our hair. Parties were thrown after he was gone.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bubby 8/7/2021 5:31:35 PM (No. 871392)
To bad we don’t have a military that will defend the Constitution and our borders rather than make Generals multimillionaires! A “woke” military is no military it’s like having cardboard cutout tanks useless! “Without accountability, a republic falls. America’s generals deserve the cleansing fire.” Amen and Amen!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NotaBene 8/7/2021 5:47:15 PM (No. 871397)
General Milley and Secretary Idi Amin turned the military into the go-to place for wedding tackle surgery to become transgender. A Petri dish for Critical Race Theory and uprooting White rage. All current flag officers lost all wars they fought.
The US Navy seems even worse. They cannot sail a destroyer across the Malacca straights without colliding with commercial merchant ships. An aircraft carrier was publically removed from service because a cowardly captain had a few cases of CCP virus. The Navy let the Bonhomme Richard and a pier completely burn down in San Diego without a fire watch on a Sunday, 4 Billion gone up in flames. China laughs at US.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
coyote 8/7/2021 6:12:01 PM (No. 871413)
Josiah Lippincott and Joe Kent are the future. Milley and Austin are the past.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Blackbird 8/7/2021 7:09:41 PM (No. 871445)
Our next president need to clean the ranks of these perfumed princes from J Chiefs on down and promote the many great Lt Cols & Cols who know how the military should be run.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 8/7/2021 7:35:45 PM (No. 871455)
Maybe we could find some out of work French generals to replace them. Couldn't possibly be worse.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/7/2021 8:02:48 PM (No. 871481)
Silley Milley. He is deeply embedded in the Forces Of The Darkside. What a completely incompetent misguided ignorant fool. We want to overturn the result of a fraudulent stolen election and not the Constitution and government you dumbarse.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
klezmer 8/7/2021 9:52:00 PM (No. 871533)
Unfortunately, progressing up the ranks in the military is just as much a political dance as a meritocracy, with politics taking the edge.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 8/7/2021 10:22:00 PM (No. 871540)
Most, not all but most Generals get to their rank by kissing butt! Once they get the one star it is a race to the second within a certain period of time. If they don't make it they are out. Have a family member who was a one star and didn't make it to two. Never saw one bullet fired in anger! I'm ashamed of what we did in the Middle East under Bush and Cheney to our fighting men and women! They deserve much better!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/7/2021 11:21:00 PM (No. 871570)
Milley is the best general our enemies have.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 8/7/2021 11:28:45 PM (No. 871573)
My most beloved nephew was KIA in Afghanistan two weeks after getting married. I will never forgive these worthless, corrupt flag officers for expending human lives as if they were nothing of much value.
If we didn't have a real strategy to win, if it was all some sort of a damned, stupid, insane, violent game, with no intent of victory, the leaders should die in prison for treason.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/8/2021 12:00:05 AM (No. 871586)
When you look at photographs of “Ike” Eisenhower in uniform at the end of the Second World War he usually had two rows of ribbons on his uniform. “Ike” was a five star general and the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during that war, commanding all American, British, and Canadian forces fighting in Western Europe. “Ike” did what he had to do to win his war against the Nazis, went on to be a two term President, and was not a fan of the military-industrial complex.
In contrast, look at America’s generals these days. None of them have ever won a war, but are strutting around in uniform wearing ten or so rows of ribbons and all sorts of badges and shoulder patches on their uniforms. That should tell you something right there!
As far as Afghanistan is concerned it is clear that Bush never should have invaded a primitive place like that without intending to use a total war strategy and tactics against the Taliban, an army of dark age tribesmen whose Islamic ancestors have been fighting wars continuously for many hundreds of years using very brutal total war strategies and tactics against whatever enemies that they came across. With an enemy like the Taliban who know nothing other than continuous and total war, the only way to win against such an enemy is to annihilate them to the last man. Instead Bush, Obama, and the generals advising them, used limited war strategies and tactics towards the Taliban that was a sure loser against the religiously based Taliban who had a history from the get go of never submitted to foreign invaders for many hundreds of years, ending up prolonging the sad US experience in Afghanistan for twenty years with no victory. What is happening now is entirely reminiscent of the end of the Vietnam War with the US military retreating out of Afghanistan, taking untold numbers of Afghans to the USA leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban. If you ask the Taliban they will tell you that they talked the USA out of Afghanistan, thus generously giving the USA a way out of Afghanistan, but only after the USA came to the understanding that a war against the Afghan Taliban was impossible to win using Western Democracy style limited warfare strategies and tactics.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 8/8/2021 8:04:29 AM (No. 871703)
America started losing wars in the 1950's with Korea. WW2 hero General Douglas MacArthur wanted to use nukes on Korea but that wasn't allowed, and he was fired.
After WW2 America never fought a war to win.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
GO3 8/8/2021 8:19:35 AM (No. 871714)
#4, retired generals or those on active duty can have opinions just like the rest of us. 1) Active duty generals job is to carry out orders to the best of their ability whether they oppose the war or not. They proceeded to make excuses for their poor performance; the most popular one being, "we didn't use enough troops." This leads me to 2) the retired generals were directly responsible for the paper tiger Army of the post-Gulf War. Yet, it was amazing these retirees conducted a routine parade of visits to the theater at our expense right up to the first withdrawal from Iraq. And finally, 3) I'm glad Josiah mentioned the technique of blaming the media as a distractor from the generals' malfeasance. Just like VN these journos, regardless of their left leanings can smell military BS. You want to shut them up? Win battles and wars.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Otis Gill 8/8/2021 8:20:43 AM (No. 871716)
Milley is a disgrace to the uniform.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/8/2021 8:36:23 AM (No. 871735)
If I were in charge, I would Court Marshall ALL of these WOKE Morons and kick them out of the Military...No Pension, and PRISON time...
Charges: Dereliction of Duty, TREASON...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Rinktum 8/8/2021 8:56:12 AM (No. 871752)
Excellent article and comments. It is disgrace to admit what our military brass has become. I am sure there are Patriots in the upper echelon but they must be few and far between. #18, Hit the nail on the head. War requires a determination to defeat the enemy totally. It appears that philosophy has been relegated to the dust bin. Imagine the outcome of all the wars since WWII if we had gone to battle with the sole goal of annihilating the enemy. We had all the necessary requirements to win except the most important, the will to win and then get out and come home. The world today would be a safer place, our allies would be more supportive and our enemies would fear us. Now, no one fears us under Biden lead except the troops who have to follow his dangerous and ridiculous dictates. China could eat our lunch tomorrow with the discipline and determination to do whatever war requires to win. The fact that they are weaponizing viruses should tells us just how resolute they would be to use whatever means to defeat us. I won’t even go into the fact that democrats fund this abomination. I love and respect the fighting men and women who willingly put their lives into the hands of men who do not have the moral integrity to lead. They are not the problem. The fish rots from the head and it’s beginning to stink to high heaven with the likes of Milley at the top. Like everything else the left touches, it destroys and our military is no exception. When is someone going to make the point that democrats are not only anti-American totalitarians but they are complete incompetents. As I have said before, their specialty is corruption, lawlessness and criminality, but they cannot govern. They are a special kind of incompetent that only knows destruction. Most of us will agree that we love this country, but hate this government for what it has done and is doing to our beloved Republic.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/8/2021 9:12:41 AM (No. 871767)
Look at the first Gulf War. We won that. The goals were clearly defined and achievable. A case can be made that we won the second Gulf War. Saddam and his sons are dead. That regime will never be back. Can't say we won in Afghanistan. The enemy was the Taliban. We knocked them out of power, but after twenty years they will soon be back in power. After 9/11, we had purged the Taliban from Afghanistan, but they had safe haven in other countries. They were allowed to grow in strength, and come back in to Afghanistan 20 years later.
When waging a war the goals have to be achievable, and the people waging the war have to be of one mind. That's a major problem. The goals changed with each President. Some of the goals (nation building) were so nebulous one could not tell what the goals were or if they had been reached.
The reason the Taliban won was because they had safe havens in other countries, and we were unwilling to expand the war. We did not want wars in Pakistan or Iran. We did what we could in Afghanistan. Hopefully all the original leaders of the Taliban after 9/11 are dead. Not sure that is the case.
When waging a war in Afghanistan only set modest goals. That's the best you can do. Its hardly a country. The people running the country only rule as far as their guns will reach.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
starboard 8/8/2021 9:41:56 AM (No. 871790)
Milley will never live down that ridiculous statement about White Rage. That will be his legacy. He should do the country a favor and resign.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/8/2021 10:18:01 AM (No. 871808)
Investigations and a commission? Watch out what you ask for. There is a simple notion that a corrupt government will appoint honest investigators to publish a full report. That will not happen. The arch-villains in this are the politicians and nation-building bureaucrats who facilitated the transfer of these billions. It was no secret. Some may recall that the then-vaunted Gen Petraeus said he would rather fight a war and attain peace with dollars than bullets. He knew these various criminals, both ours and theirs, could be bought like any whore...it was just the dickering over the price. Government was ineffectual as we installed kebob shop managers as presidents and ministers.
Once again, the US makes a decades-long mistake of involving itself in a civil war half way around the world. Yeah, it was all about getting bin Laden and our "security". You know, just one more surge would have done it. That's the American was of stupid military thinking. I bet the eventual DC memorial will be something...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/8/2021 10:26:45 AM (No. 871815)
Recall that one of the first things Obie did after getting "elected" in 2008 was he fired and replaced several hundred Generals with his leftist cronies. He sure planned ahead. We are paying the price now.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/8/2021 11:01:03 AM (No. 871847)
Anytime a four star General publicly talks about getting involved in or taking a stand in domestic US politics, or worse not understanding what is going on in domestic US politics, as an example Miley’s comment about “white rage” something that he may have made up to ingratiate himself with the leftist and socialist Democrats, it is time at the least for that General to retire instead of leading a wild goose chance throughout the military seeking out raging “White Supremists” to remove from the military. The result of which will be dubious at the least, shown by the USMC reportedly only finding and discharging four extremists in the last year out of the entire USMC. Miley has shown that he is a political General, who by the way has never won a war, so it is time for him to go. That would be fine, but what other political General would Biden find to replace Miley? As no doubt the pickings are just as deep these days in the military swamp as they are in the DC civilian swamp.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/8/2021 11:08:48 AM (No. 871861)
The MIC is in full bloom. Endless wars provide opportunities for Officers with Government contractors. The cycle is endless as are the wars. If you go to war, win the war, don't piddle around.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/8/2021 11:09:03 AM (No. 871862)
The truth is surfacing with each huff/puff general milk toast interview... he says he feared a coup by President Trump... while all the time conducting a coup himself with the swamp...President Trump won the election fair and square as we would say as kids...and no amount of twisting the truth will cover that up...it's time for each state governor to take control of their borders...since commie/harris won't...
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 8/8/2021 11:20:12 AM (No. 871886)
Trump was right.... again.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 8/8/2021 12:13:24 PM (No. 871968)
Unlike Schwarzkopf and Horner the poor, soon to be rich, generals and admirals did not fight in any jungles or deserts, provide air cover or fight a naval engagement to know the horrors those they conscript to fight are suffering through. Desert Storm was fought by men that were bloodied in Vietnam. Hit fast, hit hard, destroy, get in, pacify and get out. After we leveled northeast Afghanistan we had the tribal leaders but we didn't pacify when we went woke murdering afghan school teachers and medical professionals returning to rebuild. The Chinese PLA is filling our vacuum and watch, they brutally and without media may succeed.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/8/2021 12:15:08 PM (No. 871975)
As an example of the corruption that goes on with so-called “Nation Building” in third world countries, check out the fact that then Vice-President Biden’s brother was given the US Government’s contract to build thousands of houses in Iraq, even though he apparently had no prior experience in building large tracts of houses in foreign countries.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
LTCTed 8/8/2021 2:43:56 PM (No. 872118)
Heller's WW2 Catch-22 has Minderbinder, Westmoreland taken down for Club/Commisary irregularities, the rot seeps down to the lowly as well. "The is nothing new under the sun."
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#26 - Where did Obie get all his several hundreds of commie generals? The Want Ads? The number seems inflated, and the replacements came from “the line” that keeps moving up. Careerists bringing protégés along. The peacetime military is historically lacking. But let’s spend more and more expanding it for our “security.”
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#5, there are very many of us here thinking the very same thing!!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 8/8/2021 9:05:26 PM (No. 872413)
Great article. Well articulates many things I have been trying to say for years.
And mostly great comments up above. I have never clicked 'like this comment' so many times in a single thread before. I'm glad so many of you 'get it'.
And thanks to the OP for finding and posting it.
( I'm Ex Army Ranger from ~50 to 45 years ago... God, has it been so long???? Doesn't seem THAT long ago.)
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
TnEm 8/8/2021 10:39:03 PM (No. 872458)
Poster 31 is right. Have any of our present generals ever been under fire, serving as Lt. or 2nd Lt. Leading other men, taking responsibility for them. What was it Swarzkopf called the ones like our worthless generals - "rear echelon Rudys"?
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