Category: Competence

reason the US military is so competent–and feared. There is a de-centralization of command, and the platoon leader on the ground has “space” to improvise. Well, and they are extremely good at what they do…

Here is the rest of the text, which is very important:

There is a saying that bureaucracies, including militaries, are like jukeboxes. They have routines and can only play from the list. In situations like this there is no relevant record in the jukebox. You have to improvise the new tune from fragments of songs.

There were so many ways to get this wrong and only a few ways to walk away with no KIA.

A lot of the news focus is naturally on the machines, because that is what you can see. But someone told me years ago that air forces are not made out of planes. They are made up of people, and that is what we glimpsed here.

very much changing for the better with Venezuela. Again, you would be a blithering idiot to want this to stop by making Trump have to fight Congress.

On Wednesday, another high-ranking U.S. official came in for a visit: SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan. He was joined by Joseph M. Humire, the current assistant secretary of war for homeland defense and Americas security affairs. Donovan was just confirmed as the new head of SOUTHCOM a couple of weeks ago. 

sounding pretty dang good! It is just amazing how much he has grown, how much his gravitas has increased over the last year. In the past he has at times seemed rather RINO-adjacent. But he sure seems “based” now! I don’t know if he changed or I just misjudged him. Maybe a bit of both…

awesome and amazingly skilled operation! It was a breathtakingly slick operation!

Elite U.S. troops pulled off one of the most dramatic special operations raids in recent memory this week, snatching Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro from his fortified compound in the dead of night. Democrats are flipping out, but that doesn’t change the fact that Trump captured a dictator, and the details of how Delta Force pulled it off so successfully are pretty darn cool.

… Delta operators moved so quickly that Maduro failed to reach a steel panic room, and the couple were taken to the USS Iwo Jima and sent to New York to face drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges.

developmental child psychologist, and I’ve been saying this for year.

I spend all day every day reviewing the medical records of practitioners. And I can tell you that I am often aghast at the crappy diagnostic antics I often see!

I will read a report and at the end there is a diagnosis of Autism. Yet there is not a shred of evidence for that stated in the body of the report! It is out of the blue at the end.

Now one can think (hope) that there actually was evidence and the author just didn’t put it in. Yeah, maybe…

impressive!

a way out, but will it take it? Honestly, I’m pretty doubtful that they will. Going back to Arafat, these folks have never bargained in good faith. Never.

And NAZI. Wow, that is embarrassingly stupid.

President Trump continues to be the worst Nazi in the history of all things Nazi by working hard to bring a lasting peace to Jews in the Middle East. Okay, he’s trying to bring peace to everyone in the Middle East, but you get my drift.

… His detractors can lie about him all they want, but Trump is the only 21st-century American president who has a track record of thoughtful and successful diplomacy. George W. Bush was, put mildly, a bit heavy-handed when dealing with international conflicts. His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama was a buffoon who left American foreign policy in shambles after he gave Iran a tidy sum of money on his way out the door. And Joe Biden was, well, staring at clouds and wondering where his baggie of Cheerios was when he was with other world leaders.