According to Fred Caplan, there is a growing gap between the battle tested junior officers and the REMFs who have been running the war. Even some senior Army officers are vocalizing this, as noted by:

Col. Don Snider, a longtime professor at West Point, sees a “trust gap” between junior and senior officers. There has always been a gap, to some degree. What’s different now is that many of the juniors have more combat experience than the seniors. They have come to trust their own instincts more than they trust orders. They look at the hand they’ve been dealt by their superiors’ decisions, and they feel let down.

Which is true, for instance Col Colpol was made Chief of Staff at West Point in 2004, even though, according to MilitaryCorruption.com, he had never been stationed outside the continental United States.

The army continues to play politics, but then again before the Iraq War Part II, the White House did pass over a lot of generals to get the kind of officer who would say and do what the White House wanted, so maybe it’s not a big surprise.

And who wants to stay in the Army for years, when Blackwater is expanding their role worldwide, and pays much better, with no real accountability (I know some people who are career military, and they are fine upstanding people, so I hope they take this the right way). Sure “Duty, Honor, Country” are great goals, but when it comes down to it very few live their lives by it, especially when highly respected veterans like Commander Ward Dean are punished by the current regime when they take a stand based on the law and the constitution.

It’s a sad commentary that so many people in the military seem to want to emulate people like Gen. Earnest Robbins (ret) rather than Maj. Gen Smedley Butler (deceased) or even Gen Raymond Davis. Maybe it’s a sign of the times that because of the corrupt leadership (I’ve read that more people believe in UFO’s than trust congress) of the United States, that the leaders in the military just don’t want to buck the system. After all, better to be high speed, low drag, than to be tossed under a bus.

Of course, it’s a challenge for a serving officer to stand up to utter stupidity, they will probably be cast out into the darkness at best.

Maybe they can all just continue to help support Ron Paul?

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