Self Appointed SecDef: How to clean house, fill a vacuum at DOD

From 11/18/06:
These are great suggestions from LTC(R) Daly...

#3 is great - especially since generals in almost any other war would be replaced if they lost ONE major BATTLE...

#4 is great - force them to have a plan - wow! - and 30 days to learn reality; right now the staffs never go outside the wire it is ridiculous especially in the green zone. A friend of mine was in the Peace Corps and she told me it is the same deal with nation building in Africa - people just sit in the luxury of the capital and are clueless as to what is going on in the mud...

#5 Brings up the point that the whole IRR would have to be called up, the whole army stop-lossed, and a draft instituted to meet these requirements. Ridiculous...

#6 Would never happen. I have a commander that I had to beg to go to the counterinsurgency academy in Iraq; he then half-heartedly recommended me to go (he didn't see the point in it). He and many other officers don't even understand why one would want to go to Ranger School, or other leadership development Army schools. Just meet the minimums and get promoted. Get a good OER. Ensure their wives kiss their boss' wife's fourth point of contact to get promoted too. Who cares about the 17-year-old that escaped poverty and a broken home, searching for some discipline and to serve his country... Sickening. 95% (unscientific junior captain observation percentage) of the officers in the Army don't even read professionally, and are reactive instead of proactive. I can go on all day about this. Commanders at the brigade level who think that because they instituted a mandatory professional reading program their officers are developing are kidding themselves. Officers can tell you where Burger King is on post, but can't tell you what generation of warfare we are in or speak another language. The absolute incompetence actually makes me want to stay in sometimes to try and change it, but one person can't fix an officer corps destroyed by the Vietnam War, an officer corps that is subservient to NCOs, and an officer corps that is, in itself, mostly uneducated and spineless. Year Group 2002 (mostly stop-lossed) and 2003 are coming up on their active service commitment time (subject to IRR recall of course)... Just wait until they all put in their paperwork to leave the army... attrition rates will be at least 75%... I know they are about 80% in my area of Germany.