{"id":70623,"date":"2017-03-01T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70623"},"modified":"2017-03-01T14:43:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:43:03","slug":"putting-the-generals-on-a-longer-leash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70623","title":{"rendered":"Putting the generals on a longer leash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2017\/03\/01\/generals-may-launch-new-isis-raids-without-trump-s-ok.html\">Daily Beast, Kim Dozier<\/a> is reporting that the Trump Administration is leaning towards giving greater mission authority all the way down the chain of command, starting with allowing the SECDEF, General Mattis, and from him, on down to the field generals. Supposedly the thinking is that this will allow operational commanders to respond more quickly to suddenly developing or rapidly changing situations than was allowed them by the Obama White House. Dozier reports that the current leaders think this would be an important component of their plan to defeat ISIS and Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>Those who read here know the truth of that. Too many presidents have hamstrung their field commanders by injecting too much geopolitics, national politics and just their own damned personalities into decision making that would have been best done much further down the chain of command. The author points out that all presidents have a fear of field commanders escalating small conflicts into something much more widespread. Ol\u2019 Poe\u2019s thinking is that had some presidents let the field commanders do some escalating we might have a different world today, such as no North Korea, a free, democratic South Vietnam and a Europe that never experienced Soviet occupation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Daily Beast, Kim Dozier is reporting that the Trump Administration is leaning towards giving &hellip; <a title=\"Putting the generals on a longer leash?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70623\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Putting the generals on a longer leash?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}