Alfred
Soldiers, sailors and airmen and women will do what they are told but they do expect the senior leadership to fight the fight in the background so that they can do the job they are ordered to.
Yes men at the top and Pollies who want to micro manage everything seems
to be the norm nowadays.
Example in the book No Easy Day - helicopter crashed in the compound
- the people in that famous photo watching a live video feed of the raid on Bin Laden couldn't understand what was going on when they saw the helicopter go down so during the raid, a message was sent from the Situation room all the way to Admiral McRaven in Afghanistan asking what was happening !!!
His reply - "helicopter down, changing plans, my people on the ground will handle it."
WTF is the White House asking questions for during a raid like that.
I think the Admirals response was correct.
Having read a few books about Gulf War I, as SaSless stated,
it seems some at the top prefer saying Yes and saluting than
standing up for what is right.
Last edited by 500N; 28th Sep 2012 at 21:35.