Project 2025

[Dill]

(06-19-2024, 01:31 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Having lived in a State with a high Military population for most of my adult life, I've heard more than one serviceman opine similar sentiments. Just like with a business, being overly top heavy is costly in nature, especially when I keep hearing about enlistment numbers being down. 

I can agree with that. Though I don't agree that all military advancement must be directly related to "warfighting prowess". 

Some other comments in this section of project are odd, like the claim O6-O9 who have "actual battlefield experience" is at 
an all time low. Seems they could only get that in a war, which we supposedly don't want and don't have at the moment.

Also in Afghanistan, so far as I know, they only let company grade officers lead combat missions.  Colonels only left base
for big meetings with local head men or in Bagram or Kabul. I don't know if they count command of a FOB in a war zone 
to be actual battlefield experience. 

I do have a concern that legitimate trimming might be cover for re-shaping the military according to right wing or even
Christian Nationalist ideology. The Project makes of point using their more direct control of the DOD school system to
select what is "appropriate" for the curriculum.