⛪️LordChurchOfFailure⛪️

RE: Dishonorable Generals and Admirals As we see US military generals and admirals anonymously slithering to the press to dishonorably voice their petulant disapproval of Pete Hegseth’s entirely necessary reforms in the Department of War, I think now is an excellent time to explain to civilians how this is all actually supposed to work. Once upon a time, every senior officer and NCO knew what I am about to say, but apparently that is no longer true. So for everyone’s benefit, I’d like to describe, step-by-step, how an honorable, senior, U.S. officer or NCO deals with orders they disagree with: 1. First, determine if it is an unlawful order. Basically, for an order to be “unlawful,” it clearly and unambiguously needs to violate the Constitution or the Law of War (which includes stuff like the Geneva Conventions). An example of a clearly unlawful order is: “Go kill those innocent civilians and chop off their ears for my trophy case.” Every US military member, from privates E-1 to four-star generals, is obligated to ignore such an order and report it to the superiors of the person giving the order. This is a tough call, as you may face court martial and have to defend yourself, but it is the right thing to do, 100% of the time. Part of military bravery is having the guts to ignore unlawful orders. 2. But here is the thing—you better be damned sure that order is “unlawful.” Merely disagreeing with an order does not make it “unlawful.” So let’s move to Step #3 when you are dealing with a LAWFUL order with which you disagree. 3. When you receive a lawful order with which you disagree, you have an ethical obligation to tell the person giving that order WHY and HOW you disagree. (If you do this 99 times without results, you are still obligated as a professional to do it that 100th time as well). Explain to your boss in calm, dispassionate terms why you disagree with the order and precisely what negative results you believe will accrue by following that order. 4. A good military boss will listen intently to what you have to say, and may in fact change his/her lawful orders based on your input. However, they may also say: “I hear you, I understand your concerns, but you do not have the same big picture that I do, and you need to follow my order as written.” 5. If you are the subordinate and you get that latter response, you need to adopt that order AS YOUR OWN, AS IF IT WAS YOUR OWN PERSONAL ORIGINAL ORDER and carry it out to the fullest extent possible. That means you never, ever, EVER say to your subordinates “Well the Old Man told us to do this and I totally disagree with it, but we have to do it anyway.” A good leader NEVER does this. Instead a good leader tells his/her subordinates “Here are my orders, here is why we are executing these orders, and I expect you to execute them with precision and enthusiasm.” 6. Whatever reasons your boss told you are why the order needs to be followed, you need to adopt that same rationale as if it originated in your own brain, and you need to enforce the order with the same enthusiasm as if you dreamed it up yourself. 7. Then, execute the order zealously and do everything in your power to make sure that order is successful. 8. And if you cannot do #3 through #7 in good faith, your ethical obligation as a senior leader is to go to your boss’ office, slam your rank down on his/her desk, and officially resign from service. Anything less is the mark of a gutless coward. This was once a very, very BASIC principle of military leadership. However, somewhere along the way in the hateful, neo-Marxist miasma of the Obama/Biden Administrations, this concept of basic military honor was lost. Instead of having senior military leaders who follow lawful orders from their chain of command, we have star-wearing cowards who think they know better than the Constitutional will of the American people they are obligated to serve, and feel it is OK to undermine their Constitutional leadership by wailing emotionally to an unethical press. This is a disgusting, despicable trend that must be reversed. Instead of senior leaders who do their duties, we now have a significant number of senior military leaders who anonymously crawl on their bellies to a dysfunctional press that hates the will of the American electorate, all in an effort to ignore and overturn the lawful authority of their Constitutionally-elected leadership. When this happens, this is not so much a betrayal of the elected leadership as it is a betrayal of YOU, the American People. This is a horrific crisis in military leadership the likes of which the US military has not seen since Benedict Arnold. We must identify and eliminate these cowardly uniformed traitors lest our Republic fail due to their malfeasance. To that end, I applaud Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Sean Parnell and the rest of the DoW team for forcing our senior uniformed leaders to fulfill their duties, and fish or cut bait. So the next time you read an anonymously sourced article from senior military leaders undermining our Constitutionally-elected leadership, realize that those anonymous sources are betraying their oaths and their duties as military officers, and give their opinions the zero weight those opinions deserve. Finally, give thanks to the team of Trump and Hegseth for ripping out this evil rot by root and stem. Our national survival depends on their success. OUT * * *