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Nothing related to research in the physical sciences/engineering. Also, I hope the "Chinese Studies" had a know-your-enemy motivation.
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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?
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Nothing related to research in the physical sciences/engineering. Also, I hope the "Chinese Studies" had a know-your-enemy motivation.
42...kidding. I'll send you Big Red a PM.
I see what you did there.
A well written opinion piece by former SECAF Kendall. (Had the privilege to meet in person)
Sums up one of my major concerns about this administration quite succinctly.
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
Well-written? Kind of.
Service secretaries, unlike the military service chiefs, are political appointees. Mr. Frank Kendall is a high-ranking Democrat, who also happens to have advised Democrat Presidents in his role as Secretary of the Air Force. In that context, his criticism of a Republican administration is not surprising.
Beneath the flowery vocabulary and verbose prose, his core argument is that the Trump administration has conspired to pack the JAG corps and DOJ with lawyers who will, as a conglomerate of several hundred people, violate their professional ethics to comply with the President's illegal acts. This puts senior military officers in a pickle between obeying the 'lawful' orders as interpreted by crooked lawyers or standing up for what they believe is right - with the potential consequence of going to jail.
He doesn't use the same concrete language I did because he's capitalizing on the average Americans' 8th grade reading comprehension.
Unfortunately, he doesn't offer any concrete evidence of this assertion, and merely attempts to tie it to the resignation of USSOUTHCOM, who he regards as a patriot standing up for his beliefs.
Examples of evidence could include: some evidence of purging the JAG corps / DOJ on a mass scale, evidence of the President installing people into key positions within the JAG corps / DOJ, evidence of the President overruling JAG / DOJ advice, etc.
They might exist, but Mr. Kendall didn't use them to support his argument.
It's a very weak argument that is predicated on trusting his expertise and former position as being apolitical... which is only a problem because, like most conspiracy theories, it relies on too many people to be complicit in order to work. The people who already disagree with Venezuelan Ops, most of whom never spent a day in uniform, will nod in approval and think "yeah, those poor GOFOs," which is what helps the NYT sell clicks.
And to hammer that home ... The excuse 60 minutes gave for editing Kamala Harris and Donald Trump interviews? The clips left on the cutting floor wouldn't be interesting to viewers.
You aren't consuming news, you're consuming what an editor thinks is entertainment.
From what I have seen, there was far more churn and gnashing of teeth about how the DoD went about axing "DEI" (along with any GOFO who was brown or had a vagina) than there is about eliminating narco-terrorists.
I sincerely doubt anyone who is "fully informed" is losing sleep over the latter. The scuttlebutt about USSOUTHCOM resigning is a rift between him and USSOCOM / JSOTF vis a vis authorities and lines of demarcation created largely by SECDEF. USSOUTHCOM didn't like being told to stfu and color so he resigned.
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Have you been living under a rock the past several months?
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C
Exhibit D
My middle schooler has produced better book reports than what you just turned in.
In other news, looks like another SA-22 could be given a chance to disappoint....again.
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Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
Elementary is a great way to describe your analysis...
None of the senior JAGs fired were advising operational commanders. They were advising service chiefs and service secretaries.
Trump's outlook on life is that the DNC conspired to rob him of re-election in 2020 by falsifying votes in Georgia and then proceeded to weaponize the DOJ to charge him with election interference to scapegoat him for the DNC's corruption. He was out for blood against all high-ranking officials that were appointed by that administration, particularly lawyers. I'm not defending his position, this is just the facts about Trump's world outlook, which was validated in his mind with his re-election in 2024. The voter turnout in GA between 2016 -> 2020 -> 2024 points to foul play one way or another, and we'll probably never find out the 100% truth.
There's no conspiracy theory there. It's simple, childish revenge.
You are charging that an entire staff corps of the U.S. military is corrupt from top to bottom. That's going to require some proof beyond speculative newstainment. If I wanted to consume biased and inaccurate news, I'd watch Jon Stewart...at least he's funny (and almost always well-reasoned in his satire).
You still have to prove that Trump replaced literally hundreds of JAG corps officers in order to comply with a scheme to violate the law of armed conflict... and among all of the JAGs working this issue, not one of them is a O3 / O4 whistleblower who gives no fucks about their military career or standing with the Presidential administration.
It doesn't pass muster.
Mr. Kendall knows a bunch of biased news articles with speculative accuracy aren't sufficient proof, which is why he made no reference to them in his editorial. It's a "trust me because I was once an insider although I'm no longer an insider" argument.
What's the odds the next Democrat administration fires / charges all the JAGs who violated their professional ethics for President Trump in a conspiracy to commit war crimes? I'd wager it's damn near 0%.
None of the senior JAGs fired were advising operational commanders. They were advising service chiefs and service secretaries.
Trump's outlook on life is that the DNC conspired to rob him of re-election in 2020 by falsifying votes in Georgia and then proceeded to weaponize the DOJ to charge him with election interference to scapegoat him for the DNC's corruption. He was out for blood against all high-ranking officials that were appointed by that administration, particularly lawyers. I'm not defending his position, this is just the facts about Trump's world outlook, which was validated in his mind with his re-election in 2024. The voter turnout in GA between 2016 -> 2020 -> 2024 points to foul play one way or another, and we'll probably never find out the 100% truth.
There's no conspiracy theory there. It's simple, childish revenge.
You are charging that an entire staff corps of the U.S. military is corrupt from top to bottom. That's going to require some proof beyond speculative newstainment. If I wanted to consume biased and inaccurate news, I'd watch Jon Stewart...at least he's funny (and almost always well-reasoned in his satire).
You still have to prove that Trump replaced literally hundreds of JAG corps officers in order to comply with a scheme to violate the law of armed conflict... and among all of the JAGs working this issue, not one of them is a O3 / O4 whistleblower who gives no fucks about their military career or standing with the Presidential administration.
It doesn't pass muster.
Mr. Kendall knows a bunch of biased news articles with speculative accuracy aren't sufficient proof, which is why he made no reference to them in his editorial. It's a "trust me because I was once an insider although I'm no longer an insider" argument.
What's the odds the next Democrat administration fires / charges all the JAGs who violated their professional ethics for President Trump in a conspiracy to commit war crimes? I'd wager it's damn near 0%.
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Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
Esteemed people can still construct poor arguments.
Yes, I'm throwing the bullshit flag that the JAG corps in all branches of the military is compromised. I'm also kind of pissed that someone with Mr. Kendall's credentials would even suggest it.
Trump is more successful and credentialed than you'll ever be by almost any objective metric. He's also ore successful and arguably more credentialed than Mr. Kendall...
Yet you managed to call him an idiot several pages ago in this thread.
Brett appealing to authority and making snyde insults the moment someone disagrees with him is the least surprising thing Brett could post.
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The insinuation that someone with less experience cannot “take someone to task” on an internet forum is ludicrous. Attack the argument, not the person making it.
Simping to Trump to make your point? Gross. Enjoy that diapery taste. Donald Trump he is a terrible human being, a poor example of a leader, and is driving us off a fiscal, military, and foreign policy cliff.
I am no fan of Biden either. They’re both symptoms of a partisan system run amok (as is our current “shutdown”), and never should have darkened the interior of the White House.
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President Trump has an undergrad degree from Penn, which is something about 6,000 young people receive every year. Are there any other credentials I'm missing?
Wait, what?! I know this is a bit of a throwaway in your screed but that is just...wrong. Nonsensical statements like that undermine your overall credibility, whatever credentials you have.
I gave you four (of hundreds of possible) links from an array of sources. Each of them point to the deliberate decision to remove senior officials from atop various chains of command, to include the JAG Corps. You can hem and haw and say that's not what it is, but you're being willfully naive.
This shit isn't hard, unless you're trying not to see it, or just dont know what you're looking at. A few of the regulars around here will claim this is all just misguided TDS, but those are the same people who probably never really understood their own oaths in the first place, so you know grains of salt and all that...
To bring this back to something adjacent to the title of the thread, this is some interesting reporting on current USN/USMC ops in SOUTHCOM.*
* if Yahoo is too biased and inaccurate, I'll DM you a dozen different links that say the same thing.
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