Obama's War with the Military

      It is obvious that Obama seems more interested in degrading and destroying our own military than he is in fighting ISIS and responding to threats from Russia, Iran, and China.  It is not only ironic but traitorous that the POTUS, the commander-in-chief, is at war with his own military.  In a little more than seven years, he has already had four secretaries of defense.  The first three are all critical of his interference with the DOD.  His first secretary was Robert Gates, a holdover from the Bush administration.  This fooled everyone into thinking that he was going to seek a positive role for the military.  Instead, Gates merely served as a figurehead with little power and the White House (Valerie Jarrett) interfered with and dominated nearly all department business. Gates lasted until 2011, when he quit in disgust.  His successor was Leon Pancetta, a Democrat and former CIA director under Obama and Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton.  He lasted until 2013, when he resigned with basically the same complaints as those of his predecessor.  His successor was former Republican senator Chuck Hagel, a decorated Viet Nam War veteran, who had survived a rather contentious approval process in the Senate.  He lasted about 20 months, resigning over differences in the administrations policy (or lack of it) toward ISIS.  The current secretary, Ash Carter, served as deputy SOD under Hagel.  His main job seems to be to push the administration's plan for the military and serve as a buffer between Obama and "Genera"l Jarrett from Congress.
      On October 13, 2013, I published a blog about Obama purging the military of its best generals and admirals, three months before it was a picked up by the media.  I also learned from one of my sources that not only were the most high ranking officers being forced to resign or retire, but so were the most capable junior officers, colonels, lt. colonels, and majors and their naval equivalent, depleting the military of a future generation of generals and admirals.  Historically, Stalin did the same thing prior to WW2, but for a different reason, paranoia.  Russia was totally unprepared for  Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.  If it weren't for an early onset of a very severe Russian winter, Hitler may have achieved his objective and WW2 may have had a somewhat different outcome.
     Besides depleting the military leadership, Obama has depleted the size and capability of our military to, believe it or not, pre WW2 size.  No wonder he doesn't want to use ground forces, he doesn't have many.  In addition, he has gutted or seriously reduced many advanced weapons systems.  The Air Force is using old F18s rather than upgrading to the F22.  Even Obama's favorite weapon, the drone, has been cut back.  Spare parts are difficult to find and often are cannibalized from existing units.  We barely have enough combat ready ground units to deploy to a major war theater, much less multiple locations.  The Russians, Iranians, and Chinese are certainly aware of this and is one of the reasons why they are all provoking us.  They know that Obama is totally unworthy as a CIC and his response has been pathetic.
      Most importantly Obama has tried to destroy the morale of our armed forces.  Changing the gays in the military from "don't ask don't tell" to now allowing gays to openly admit their sexual preference makes the bonding that a military unit needs to be effective much more difficult.  The same goes with allowing woman to become GI combatants.  I'm not saying that gay men or even woman aren't brave and capable, but political correctness is not necessary when our army and marine units are putting their lives on the line in combat.  Releasing Gitmo prisoners also has no place especially when they are exchanged for a traitor like Bo Bergdahl.
      Another morale breaker was thought up by Michelle Obama, a person with even more disdain for our military than her husband.  Though he attends only a few military functions, often sending Biden, who has a son in the military, instead, Michelle almost never accompanies her husband.  They seem much more comfortable welcoming a championship sports team to the White House, than attending an event at a military cemetery. There is an old saying that "an army travels on its stomach" and our army was one of the best fed, but now Michelle wants to eliminated fried foods and other "unhealthy"  foods and feed our soldiers the same slop that our public school children refuse to eat.  Can you imagine a soldier returning to base after a time in the field, existing on C or K rations and unfortunately finding a tiny piece of meat and a plate full of vegetables. I wish Michelle would just take a permanent vacation and thankfully in 9 months she will.
      Lastly, and you just can't make this stuff up, Obama has told the Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, to name the new guided missile destroyer the USS Carl Levin.  Up until now, destroyers have been named after admirals and courageous sailors. This class of destroyer is named after Arleigh Burke, a destroyer captain in WW2 in the Pacific who used aggressive tactics against unfavorable odds to obtain naval victories. He was promoted to admiral and fought in the Korean War as well.  Carl Levin was an ultra liberal senator from Michigan who never served a day in the military and never met a military appropriation that he wanted to reduce.  Naval officers and enlisted men take pride in their ship and its name. What kind of pride can one have in a ship named after an anti military politician?  Maybe our next president will change the name to something more appropriate.  If Obama had his way another naval vessel might be named for his new found friend Raul Castro or even the Che Guevara, who apparently he admires. I have a great idea.  Let's name the next garbage scow the USS Michelle Obama.