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Gen. Randy Manner: The Army is running on the B team
There are ten four-star positions in the US Army. Five of them are currently filled.
Retired Major General Randy Manner's point is not that the officers now holding those jobs are bad. It's that three-stars are qualified to be three-stars. Running an army on them is running the B team, possibly the C team.
More than twenty senior officers have been purged, plus 45 blocked promotions to general or admiral. Manner's read is that the "woke" framing is a cover for removing anyone with an independent mind or the wrong associations.
His comparison is deliberately harsh: more damage to the senior ranks than the Nazis managed in the Second World War.
The resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll fits the same picture. A senior civilian appointee leaving without scandal, simply because he no longer believes he can lead a million-person force under this Pentagon.
The money problem is quieter but worse. Because admitting a war exists means asking Congress for a supplemental, readiness budgets are being drained instead (fuel, spare parts, training for everyone not deployed) to pay for a relatively small forward force.
He also flagged the four-star non-concurrences leaked to the Washington Post as extraordinary. In three years on the Joint Staff he never saw a formal non-concur. Disagreements get resolved before they reach paper.
And now thousands of documents are being pulled from the department's shared network, which he argues rebuilds exactly the information silos the 9/11 Commission blamed for the intelligence failure.
His concern is what happens next. The regional pattern is proportional exchange, then a step back down.
Trump escalates every time instead, and Iran will not be bullied into folding.
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