Why us military system favours sycophancy and apple polishing

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2. Military and Security Review (An Intellectual Honest US Military Commander) Paperback – November 4, 2015
https://www.amazon.com/Military-Security-Review-Intellectual-Commander/dp/1519103808

3. Notably in Afghanistan both
Generals Mc Chrystal and
Petraeus made no effort to
oppose the senseless 2009-
12 surge that led to high US
casualties and led to no
operational or strategic
advantage for the US. On
page 79 of his book US
journalist Michael Hastings
described Mc Chrystals

4. intellectual dishonesty as
below. Hastings stated that
Mc Chrystal was clueless
about why US is fighting in
Helmand but soon launches a
major offensive there which
costs many US casualties.
The lack of moral courage in
the US political and military
leadership may be imagined
from the fact that while 90 %

5. US military casualties were
inflicted by Pakistani state
proxies the US commanders
still blamed Al Qaeda and
some non state Taliban as the
real enemies. This was
tactically convenient and
strategically counterproductive
but no US leader political or
military possessed the
courage to face the fact that it

6. was the Pakistani state and
not non state actors that were
the cause of their problems.
The surge of 2009-2012 was
the worst example of this
classic strategic deception
where US troops were
distributed in penny packets
on a platter to Pakistani
proxies to be sacrificed for no
tangible or precise military

7. objective. Long ago a great
military thinker , perhaps
worlds greatest described this
particularly malady that afflicts
the US political and military
soul at the highest level. Sir
B.H Liddell Hart in his
magnum bonum “ Strategy the
Indirect Approach” thus stated
:-- “common fault of leaders—
that of sacrificing the truth to

8. expediency without ultimnate
advantage to the cause.For
whoever habitually
suppresses the truth in the
interest of tact will produce a
deformity from the womb of
his thought.” Hastings
described such a deformed
creature that US military
system produced , on page
346 of his book he quotes

9. Admiral William Fallon less
delicately describing Petraeus
as An ass kissing little chicken
shit ! But note that this
character was selected as
DCIA also ! A 2012 US war
narrative by eminent US
journalist Michael Hastings
describes US Armys failures
in intellectual honesty at the
highest level in his book “ The

10. Operators” which may have
possibly led to Hastings
abrupt and unnatural death.
Hastings on page 7 of his
above mentioned book
describes General Casey as
one who “ oversaw Iraqs
complete spiral to shit and
didn’t stop it,didn’t adapt”.
Hasting goes on and
describes Genearl Mc Kiernan

11. as an upright man who does
not suck up enough when
congressmen visit frontlines
and does not have a deep fan
base in the media. Hastings
thus ascribed Mc Kiernans
downfall to the fact that he
was not a sucker and thus
had few supporters in media
and US government. What a
sad description of a great

12. super powers armys higher
leadership and the success
standards set for them by US
politicians. In this climate of
total sycophancy and apple
polishing General Joseph F
Dunford. The Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff stands
out as a lone but solid rock of
highest integrity in an endless
and bottomless sea of

13. mediocrity known as United
States Military system.
Dunford dared to state the
truth about Syrian Faux pas of
US political leadership in the
US senate. In recent senate
hearings General Joseph F
Dunford. The Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff told the
Senate Armed Services
Committee this week: “The

14. balance of forces right now
are in Assad’s advantage”. It
may sound harmless but
those who know the US
system will realize that
Dunford is a man of immense
guts in saying what he did. Let
us hope that Dunfords
intellectual honesty is
institutionalized in the US
Army.