How disgraced general Petaeus avoided prison.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

In my experience things got in done in spite of higher ranking officers much of the time. To me they seemed like pensil pushers that only looked at metrics but didn't have a true understanding of what was going on.

Really? Shameful display for military officers

How can you win a war if you don't know the state of your soldiers? Apparently you don't, the soldiers win it for you.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

[...] How can you win a war if you don't know the state of your soldiers? Apparently you don't, the soldiers win it for you. [...]

I beg your pardon? When, in military history, has the fate of individual soldiers ever mattered, to a "general", or military leader 'in general' ?

If there ever was any "care", it was about what can be done to keep them in the fight, from being fed, to ideology, to psychology whether soldiers will fight on when they know they e.g. know they have to die of radiation. In my "career" in the military i have stumbled about the most gross idiots i ever heard of.
The boredom, and the unprofessionality, along with formal drill done by braindead brats..
It may be all nice and polished from outside, but from technical maintenance to professionality of officers, to the real state the military is in..

[August]

Originally Posted by Catfish

It may be all nice and polished from outside, but from technical maintenance to professionality of officers, to the real state the military is in..

The state of a peacetime military in a country that hasn't fought a war in 75 years you mean. That does make a big difference. The martinets and the idiots tend to fade away once the shooting starts.

[Platapus]

Deutch was another loser.

https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/...s-1/deutch.pdf

He had a long history of handling classified information on unclassified computers hooked up to the Internet, while he was the DCI! He also stored classified information in his three residencies and none of them were approved for storage.

He first put classified information on unclassified computers 35 days after becoming DCI. How much information are we talking about?

The equivalent of 17,000 pages of classified information... not exactly a simple oversight.

Punishment? Bah, that's for the little people.

After his presidential pardon, Deutch is back earning the big bucks on several intelligence related commissions.

Yeah, that's justice.

[Jimbuna]

Stormin' Norman reminded me of Patton.

I never really knew much about Petaeus but what little I've read on the subject he may well be a lucky man.