TLDR maybe but I’m so glad you brought this up! Here’s why we can’t have iconoclast generals in the U.S. anymore:
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) August 19, 2026
1947: Officer Personnel Act. We standardized “up-or-out.” Officers increasingly advanced through centralized boards and prescribed career timing instead of being… https://t.co/Og5M2Zk2jG
Agreed. I was a very junior officer when DOPMA passed, it didn’t affect me much.
Goldwater-Nichols really screwed the pooch. I was in the reserves then, but still. 24 years later, it’s still screwing things up.