Comments by "Aristocles Athenaioi" (@aristoclesathenaioi4939) on "General Eric Shinseki : He who shall not be named" video.

  1.  @MarcosElMalo2  I think he meant "tone-deaf"
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  2. How interesting that General Shinseki is reviled for an aesthetic decision about headwear instead of being praised for adopting a wheeled vehicle and for the monumental changes he made to the force structure of the Army. The tank commanders are at the top of the prestige hierarchy in the Army just as the Naval Aviators are in the US Navy. Shinseki got savage push back from the advocates of treaded vehicles who with their supporters in Congress compelled Shinseki to do a series of expensive and largely unnecessary head-to-head tests of treaded versus wheeled vehicles. The tank advocates never forgave Shinseki for diminishing the role of tanks, and they focused their anger and revenge on Shinseki on the matter of dress uniform headgear. How sadly predictable that Shinseki is remembered for the trivial matter of headgear in the dress uniform rather than the substantive matter of force structure and the adoption of more practical and logistically supportable wheeled combat vehicles. Add to that the comment also made below that Shinseki told Congress the truth that it would take 300 thousand troops to occupy Iraq about which history showed he was dead-right as opposed to the fantasy that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was peddling at the time. The tank clique and the neo-cons got revenge on General Shinseki, and he was forced to retire as Army Chief of Staff. Clinton brought him back as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs where he began but was never able to finish cleaning up the VA mess. It is interesting to note that Clinton's appointment of Admiral Borda to Chief of Naval Operations drew the ire of Naval Aviators because Borda was the first Chief of Naval Operations who rose from the ranks to General Staff. Borda was hounded by the Naval elite about a misunderstanding about battle ribbons that lead to Borda committing suicide in despair over the matter. It is especially interesting to note that Shinseki was the first Asian American member of the General Staff and Admiral Borda was a Jewish-American who was Chief of Naval Operations. I feel certain that animosity against those two ethnic groups had a lot to do with how unjustly Shinseki and Borda were treated by their respective branches of the military. As an historical footnote, Borda was born in Ukraine.
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  3. You might find the "Rapid Dragon" system interesting. There are a number of videos on YT about it. Plus, a real nail-biter simulation done by Grime Reapers using the "Rapid Dragon" against the Russian Black Sea fleet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvUTl6xjxqY
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