Military Officers Quotes
Johnson strongly urged white contact with the Indians in the Indian communities, He himself married an Indian Woman.
He was objecting to the current crop of senior military officer who have little experience in fighting and much in academic, strategic and technical training. Many however see him as a dinosaur who does not realized the complex nature of the modern military missions. In general, we have won almost all of our fighting battles but often failed in our maintaining civil society, occupation, nation building, military procurement, preventing sexual assault of our own troops by our own soldiers, assuring mental health of our soldiers. Hackworth, detractors argue, wants to change what already works and ignore what does not.
He was arrested by the Gestapo 2 weeks later and hanged with piano wire. The upper class of Germany had no love for Adolf Hitler. They thought him gross, crude, immoral, and a danger to Germany. But Germany was such ab authoritarian society that the people who would be most independent were as intimidated and in fear as most of the non Nazi population.
Armstrong was a Union military chaplain with the troops that had captured Petersburg, Virginia. It is interesting how much he and apparently many of the Union Soldiers saw their part in the war as a crusade to reform the South. Also, note that although the South was fighting to preserve the slavery system that benefitted the rich, the rich often did not fight or join the military. Surprisingly to us today, if a man owned a certain number of slaves, he was then exempt from required military service.
He was a senior military officer in the Jacobin rebellion. He became the last person in Great Britian whon was executed by beheadung, although the law did not abolish it until the 20th century, He was 80 years old at the time of his execution and was quite feeble.
Washington, though a military officer at the time, was very concerned with protecting the rights of citizens from abuse by the military for he had seen much of the abuse. The third amendment for example was later written to protect people from the military. The Constitution also requires that Congress make such rules for the military. Note that Washington, our first senior military officer at the time, wanted Congress to make detailed rules for the conduct of soldiers. In the 20th and 21st century, as the imperial presidency developed, there was a political view that only the military officers and the Commander in Chief should make the rules and regulations for the soldiers. However, there was no question but that the Founding Fathers saw this as a legislative branch function. Congress and Presidents have contested for this power every since.
Westmoreland’s critics point to this quotation as an illustration of exactly why he was the wrong man for the job. As Vietnam Supreme Commander, he controlled more firepower than any other military leader in history and yet he had “no room” for thought or reason much less mercy. Subsequent commanders of U. S. military efforts were much more sophisticated like, Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, and Wesley Clark who were leading American thinkers, sophisticated at political and military reasoning and very capable of mercy. The modern American military requires men and women who are skilled at thinking and reasoning.
Planting tobacco was a much more lucrative endeavour, so many of the few gunsmiths abandned that trade for tobacco farming.
Then Chief of Staff of the Army, he was asking for a large military appropriation.
