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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Let’s See If This Pans Out for Putin
Date: 08/18/2025 11:14 AM
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Marshall’s purge of Kimmel and Short occurred AFTER Ww2 began, and it was performance based. Whether it was for “failure to perform” or simply a matter of “someone had to take the rap”, Kimmel was the admiral whose navy left the Pacific fleet’s battleships parked stem to stern on Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor, and Short was the general whose army left its air assets parked in rows at Hickham on the morning of December 7th.

Marshall purged way more than Kimmel and Short and he did it before the war started. He and his "Plucking Committee" were active well before Pearl Harbor:

https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/gen-ge...

"The difficulties of leadership which existed in 1917-18 have been enormously multiplied today by the increased mobility and fire power of modern armies, and the necessity for vigorous commanders is greater now than it has ever been before.”

– Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall, June 5, 1940

When President Franklin Roosevelt chose Marshall as Army Chief of Staff, he bypassed thirty-three more senior generals. Most importantly, he had rejected Marshall’s major competition for the post, Maj. Gen. Hugh Drum, who had reached that rank in 1930, held almost every top position in the Army below Chief of Staff, and in fact had been regularly recommended for that position since 1930. To those officers content with the existing system, there was no clearer signal that times had changed.

A legend arose during World War II that Marshall kept a “little black book” that had the names of junior officers he had encountered over the years who had impressed him. While it’s been argued that the physical black book itself didn’t exist, what is inarguable is the fact that Marshall did keep tabs on promising junior officers. Many of those, such as Eisenhower, Bradley, Ridgeway, and others, went on to become successful commanders during the war. Marshall’s opportunity to act decisively on the dead wood officer problem occurred when the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act of 1940 was passed. Included in its provisions was the elimination of the seniority-only criteria for promotions. Now vested with the authority to promote deserving junior officers, Marshall acted swiftly to clear the logjam.

The strategic landscape has changed. We need people who not only know what a woman is, but who can understand how to counter China and China working with Russia on land/air/sea/space.

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