Comments on: The Unlikely Dissident http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/02/08/the-unlikely-dissident/ Forward Movement Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:28:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: AW1 Tim http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/02/08/the-unlikely-dissident/comment-page-1/#comment-78430 AW1 Tim Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:49:16 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/?p=10517#comment-78430 Oh heck, it's been like that since the Revolution. We puttered about until Washington was appointed. In the Civil War, we almost lost the nation until Lincoln got things sorted out with Grant & Sherman. WWII went badly for the first few engagements. It's always that way, and always will be that way. We muck it up for the first part of the war, spend the middle sorting things out and readjusting, then pound the hammer home and wrap things up. Just sayin'... Oh heck, it’s been like that since the Revolution. We puttered about until Washington was appointed. In the Civil War, we almost lost the nation until Lincoln got things sorted out with Grant & Sherman. WWII went badly for the first few engagements. It’s always that way, and always will be that way. We muck it up for the first part of the war, spend the middle sorting things out and readjusting, then pound the hammer home and wrap things up.

Just sayin’…

]]> By: Last Angry Man http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/02/08/the-unlikely-dissident/comment-page-1/#comment-78428 Last Angry Man Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:47:19 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/?p=10517#comment-78428 It's an odd dynamic, truly. In almost each conflict we have gotten into, at first we have top commanders who don't seem to be able to function well. Then, after a period of time, commanders are found who excel. Mostly, as I've seen, it's that the kind of general you get in peacetime is quite different than those who are battlefield-competent. We saw this play out in Iraq, where we frankly didn't do that well in quashing the insurgency, until the Petraeus/Odierno team were placed in command. It’s an odd dynamic, truly. In almost each conflict we have gotten into, at first we have top commanders who don’t seem to be able to function well. Then, after a period of time, commanders are found who excel.

Mostly, as I’ve seen, it’s that the kind of general you get in peacetime is quite different than those who are battlefield-competent. We saw this play out in Iraq, where we frankly didn’t do that well in quashing the insurgency, until the Petraeus/Odierno team were placed in command.

]]> By: Combat Captain | Neptunus Lex http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/02/08/the-unlikely-dissident/comment-page-1/#comment-78420 Combat Captain | Neptunus Lex Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:53:57 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/?p=10517#comment-78420 [...] A video of Cpt. Cook’s risky efforts at reaching out to the Sunni tribes who had been targeting his men in Salahuddin can be found here. All courtesy of Jules, who has a great deal more. [...] [...] A video of Cpt. Cook’s risky efforts at reaching out to the Sunni tribes who had been targeting his men in Salahuddin can be found here. All courtesy of Jules, who has a great deal more. [...]

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