Our New Politicized Leftist Military

Many of you probably know that I spent quite a few years in the uniform of our nation’s military. It all started in 1962 when I attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and spent a year in the Army ROTC. Then I managed to fool a lot of seemingly important people and obtained a congressional appointment to the United States Naval Academy. I actually survived four years there, and was finally handed a BS degree and a commission as a Navy Ensign. I spent the next 11+ years as a naval aviator, but then resigned my regular Navy commission and entered the Naval Reserve. For the next 15 years I served in a variety of reserve commands, and was blessed to serve as a commanding officer of three different commands. Eventually I retired from the reserves as a Navy Captain in 1994.

Among the reasons for leaving the regular Navy in 1978 was the presidency of Jimmy Carter. His gross incompetence had a horrendous effect on the very Navy in which he once served. President Carter was an embarrassment to me and really to anyone who served in the military during those four years. He was actually an embarrassment to the entire nation even though many Americans were far too ignorant (aka, stupid) to realize they should have been embarrassed. The Reagan Revolution of 1980 was a refreshing change that had a near miraculous impact on our nation’s military. The result was the remaking of our military and a surge in the morale of every soldier, sailor, airman, and marine. It was a marvelous thing to witness. 

My, how things have changed. I believe President George Bush began the descent by his determination to do the impossible, to convert Muslim nations to some form of Western democracy. Such a effort was, of course, doomed to failure, and our nation suffered the loss of far too many lives and spent too much treasure.The true villain, however, was President Barack Obama. Obama “reformed” the senior officer corps of the U.S. military by ensuring only easily manipulated officers would rise to senior levels in the military. The result, of course, is the presence of such incompetent, “woke” fools as our current Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley. 

Believe me, the vast majority of flag officers (i.e., those who are generals and admirals) are no different from General Milley. If they were any different, they would have resigned in protest. But they cling to their high-ranking positions, hoping for lucrative, post-military positions in what President Eisenhower called the “military-industrial complex.” How right he was. For 15 years now our most senior officers  have been groomed to cave to the political realities of our expanding far-left political leadership. The U.S. military today is in a state of flux. The leadership is politicized, but those they lead are still non-political warriors who actually take their oath to support the Constitution (not the President) seriously. I won’t try to predict what will happen, but can only hope that we will experience (and vote for) a change in national leadership that will once again restore our military to its Constitutional mission of defending our nation from its true enemies.