Best led? NO.

Yesterday Lex ranted on about the readiness of the military. Conceding that today’s troops are probably the smartest, best trained and equipped force in the history of the world, leadership appears to be the Achilles heel of the force.

Let’s start at the top – the ever shrinking minute Little Barry. He is a clueless punk. Close G’itmo? No. Get a Status Forces Agreement with Iraq? No. Reinforce the consulate in Benghazi during a 9 HOUR gun fight? No. Convey American strength? No. Communicate a coherent policy anywhere in the world? No. Communicate to terrorist a commitment to defeating them and killing them anywhere we find them? No. Support long time allies? No. Apologize and grovel to our enemies? Yes. Oh hell yes.

Next, Sec Def. Let’s go back one to Leon Panetta. This guy ended don’t ask don’t tell and offered no resistance homosexual marriage in the military. This guy proposed giving “committed” homosexual couples benefits that would be denied committed heterosexual couples. What was the wannbe Gen of the JAG's response to that policy recommendation?  "No.  I don't see any legal problem with that policy."

But that’s not the worst of it. This coward refused to reinforce the forces fighting off Islamo-Terror-Fascists for 9 HOURS. The reason he gave was that he couldn’t send forces into an unknown situation. That’s leadership? Think about that - can’t send forces into an unknown situation. Thank God Leon wasn’t responsible for crossing the Delaware during the Revolutionary War. Using that criteria, what do suppose the chances are that Leon would have cancelled the Normandy invasion? Would Leon have had a sufficiently clear picture and the 98% chance of success he seems to require before the Inchon landings?

What a bag of crap?

Now on to the current block of wood in the Sec Def’s office - Chuck Hagle. If this is indeed the smartest force we’ve ever had, then about 99.9999999% are smarter than the man with a single brain cell occupying the E ring office in the Pentagon.

On to the uniform officers. A wannabe Admiral in the news today is ARB co-chairman on Benghazi, Adm. Mike Mullen. How do you do a report on Benghazi without interviewing the Secretary of State, surviving members of the attack on the consulate and the second in command in Libya when the attack occured? That’s like a skipper taking his 8 o’clock reports aboard ship and not receiving a report from his chief engineer ensuring the ship is sea worthy, his personnel officer ensuring that all hands are accounted for and none have fallen overboard and his supply officer ensuring him that the ship has all essential supplies to perform its mission.

My guess is that Mullen let the Shrilldabeast or her people write the report and then signed off on it.

NOTE:  Nothing else explains this.  Mullen, as are all Adms and Gens, is a smart, smart guy.   How else could such a slipshod half-@$$ed POS report make it past him? 

Wannabe Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of the US Pacific Command thinks global warming is his chief worry. Really? Not a nuclear N. Korea? Not an ever expanding Chinese naval presence in the Pacific? Let’s just play along with Sam. Let’s pretend he’s playing pretend. OK Sam global warming is your chief concern. WTF (win the future) are you going to do about it! Your J-O-B is defending the sea lanes and expanding American influence in the Pacific. Even if it's real, which it isn’t, WTF (win the future) does global warming have to do with that mission? Will you ignore a Chinese threat if it means burning a little extra fuel? Will you let shipwrecked survivors drown because you don’t want to launch a helicopter to save them? Will you let pirates run amok because you don't want to sortie ships and aircraft to confront them? Then, to borrow a phrase in the news, WTF (win the future) difference does it make?  Do your F___ing J-O-B and STFU about supernatural hoaxes that are out of your control.

Wannbe General Dempsey personally calls a pastor and asks that he suspend his 1st Amendment rights because Dempsey doesn’t like what he might say.

Marine Corps Wannabe General Conway comes out against ending don’t ask don’t tell and then jettisons principle to get on board with the decision so that he can hold onto his job.

Then there was that sickening picture of the White House Officer Corps all lined up in their finery mugging as props for the first Mooch’s Oscar presentation. Certainly these sycophants are learning early how to rise to the Wannabe level.

And it’s not just the wannabes threatening the force, look who is being run out of the service, real Gens Mattis, Allen and Patraeus. Any Gen with a willingness to take the fight to the enemy and kill them where they live is under assault by this administration.

So the best led? Not even close. I’d take it to the point of saying, that from the top, it’s the worst led. Taken as a whole, there is no evidence that there is a Washington, Grant, Pershing, Patton, Ridgeway or Olds among them. There certainly isn’t a Mr. Roberts in the White House Officer Corps.

But it’s a large group. Admirals and Generals are smart and patriotic by nature.  I don't know why everyone that seems to make the news these days is for some hare-brained statement or foul up.  I know many are out there working under duress, under the spotlight, as best they can to hold the force together until better times. That’s my hope.

NOTE: While the force maybe the best trained right now, allowing women into combat roles will require a diminished standard. Will they be the best trained when that inevitably occurs? I don’t know. Alabama still could have won the national championship with a girl or two on the team. It’s doubtful they could have won if practices were tailored to accommodate the weakest link.