Hi,
Pretty damned close. You don't put the lives of tens of thousands of men in someone you pick with a pin.
That pretty much ended with Napoleon. Clausewitz, a contemporary of Boney wrote some words about how to run an army. It included the minor concept of 'staff'. The first two on your list, yeah. The rest is what subordinates are for.
There's little room for stupidity in a profession whose primary purpose is to kill. If after twenty plus years, his guard isn't nailed up permanently, then he should be kicked.
That bar is so low, you need a shovel to find it.
Damn straight, and a good thing too. And most of them live up to it.
--Pete
(06-27-2010, 02:12 AM)kandrathe Wrote: General has got to be the hardest job in the world then.
Pretty damned close. You don't put the lives of tens of thousands of men in someone you pick with a pin.
Quote:First, you need to be a good soldier, then leader, then tactician, then strategist, then psychologist, then logician, then nation builder, then politician, then PR specialist, etc.
That pretty much ended with Napoleon. Clausewitz, a contemporary of Boney wrote some words about how to run an army. It included the minor concept of 'staff'. The first two on your list, yeah. The rest is what subordinates are for.
Quote:Then, when you exemplify all this talent, and you and/or your staff allegedly let's their guard down "off the record", whack, you're done.
There's little room for stupidity in a profession whose primary purpose is to kill. If after twenty plus years, his guard isn't nailed up permanently, then he should be kicked.
Quote:How many of the Whitehouse staff, or our Congress are that squeaky clean?
That bar is so low, you need a shovel to find it.
Quote:It seems that we have a higher standard for "General" than we do for CIC, or VP, though.
Damn straight, and a good thing too. And most of them live up to it.
--Pete
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