2 hours ago, Day Man said:

i know you're being intentionally obtuse since your not your guy is continuing to knock it out of the park, but:

surely none of those are important in an active conflict 🤷‍♂️

It's obvious that the person is important. What's not obvious is that what you are suggesting is true. That removing or replacing that person is some sort of catastrophe to the goal at hand.

I suspect replacing McClellan, Burnside, and Hooker had consequences, but I don't think anybody suggests that they should have been kept in place just because the civil war had not yet ended. And if that's what it took to get to Grant, so be it.

In fact replacing military leaders in the middle of an ongoing war has happened in every major conflict that I could find.

And in this case, the flag officer we are discussing is not even responsible for the current hostilities. He's in a primarily administrative role, exactly as you described.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by Lord Ratner

1 hour ago, Lord Ratner said:

It's obvious that the person is important. What's not obvious is that what you are suggesting is true. That removing or replacing that person is some sort of catastrophe to the goal at hand.

I suspect replacing McClellan, Burnside, and Hooker had consequences, but I don't think anybody suggests that they should have been kept in place just because the civil war had not yet ended. And if that's what it took to get to Grant, so be it.

In fact replacing military leaders in the middle of an ongoing war has happened in every major conflict that I could find.

And in this case, the flag officer we are discussing is not even responsible for the current hostilities. He's in a primarily administrative role, exactly as you described.

He's not a flag officer... Holy shit

14 minutes ago, 17D_guy said:

He's not a flag officer... Holy shit

Oh, I read CNO instead of SECNAV. Oops. Care to address the actual point?

We replace military leaders regularly during wars. Usually because existing leadership tends to fight the last war and not the present war. It makes sense that you'd uncover misaligned leadership when it actually counts, rather than when everything is calm and boring.

You're just hyperventilating at this point.

Edited 48 minutes ago48 min by Lord Ratner