Comments by "r baxter" (@rbaxter286) on "'Billy' Mitchell - Insufferably Right or just Insufferable?" video.

  1. He kinda fit in all over, as far as possible experimentation with Grand Ideas. The problem is, only a few of the Grand Ideas worked out, and even fewer of the 'prophets' did. The context of the Japanese atrocious Bushido culture, this kind of weasel would have fit in ..., but the US was a CIVIL Government and up to now did not allow military interference except in very special circumstances and with changing times rendering the single-minded 'warriors' involved a pariah (e.g., Rickover) when 'mistakes were made' and hubris got out of control ...
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  2. So he was not right, he was a Stochastic Genius. You know, like the Army's LTA strategic defense catastrophe, as opposed to the alleged success of tactical ASW blimps.
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  3. Always amazed how people read what they want to into Mahan, as in what will justify their budgets, personal and governmental. Just a bunch of people who wouldn't or won't think for themselves, without applying the need to PROVE he was or is still relevant to a situation. Mitchell was right in the emerging power of aviation, but grotesquely wrong about the actual technical aspects that only really sorta came to fruition in WW2, although I doubt carriers would have ever overcome a surface action group by themselves especially early in WW2 (HMS Glorious and Leyte sorta shine here). Question is, were there any other actually effective leaders who did not really need Mitchell's acts of bravado to make things happen. After all, Mitchell was very much USN vs. USA in the US defense pig sty for funding and preeminence, especially when the 'Once and Future Lamestream Media' to a hold of that 'huge' story ..., a story meant to prod the ever-present Local Barbershop/YouTube Experts ..., you know like FLERFs and other History Channel Amateur Historians ... MItchell seems to have been a 'Prophetic' Guderian for airpower instead of a post facto 'Genius' Guderian for his (self-asserted) prowess in armor warfare ..., and why Allies should not jail him and NATO should hire him ...
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