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Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied
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Old military saying, tactics win battles, logistics wins wars.
General Omar Bradley: Frequently credited with the variation, “Amateurs talk strategy and tactics. Professionals talk logistics.”
Hegseth is an amateur. This failure is his. He spent all his time attacking woke and not providing the logistical support needed to keep the troops in the field.
And no, i don’t agree with trumps attack on Iran. But this has been a cluster fuck that didn’t have to happen. Trump and Hegseth purged all the professionals and replaced them with sycophants.
As always, the soldiers pay the price in the end. This horrible morale will not improve things either. I feel sorry for those kids that depend on these yahoos to be safe, their families too.
I worked as a civilian for the army for 30 years. So yes, don't enlist. They use you up then discard you like soiled toilet paper. It's always kind of been that way.
I'm married to a Navy veteran I know :( they recruited him at 17, that shouldn't be allowed imo, manipulating little kids to feed the meat grinder.
Yep that's a whole other element that isn't talked about enough:
Trump and Hegseth executed what I can only describe as a 'Stalin-esque' purge of officers, prior to this all starting.
Now they weren't literally executed or sent to gulags, but they're not part of the military anymore.
... this cripples your military's ability to do stuff that you, beforehand, probably would have just taken for granted as things that it can do. The kind of stuff that you normally don't notice, because you only notice it when it isn't being done correctly.
Fucking idiots.
Not even an amateur, he's a racist, misogynist wanker, who doesn't talk strategy or tactics, because he doesn't know a fucking thing about either. Instead, he talks pseudoscience about testosterone levels, obsesses about facial-hair regulations, and blocks promotions of women and Black men to senior ranks.
But you should see the current testosterone levels of our troops!
Why? Are you providing gender affirming care?
The army does
No Dudes in Dresses™!
This Hegseth guy doesn't seem to think of either.