The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Milley
You see why Tucker Carlson called Milley a “reckless nutcase.” He apparently believes that the military answers to him.
By Roger Kimball
September 18, 2021
It has been fascinating to follow the recent career of General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an advisory body of military commanders that, by law, lies outside the chain of command. It’s not clear Milley knows that. Being a thoroughly modern major general, he seems to be more interested in blockading “white rage” than honing the fighting skills of our military.
So I was edified to see that Milley has put down some of his thoughts in a new Art of War. It is a very different sort of book from the Chinese classic by Sun Tzu.
It is not just that Sun Tzu was interested in winning wars and prevailing over the enemy. He also understood that his country had enemies and that it was important to be able to distinguish effectively between friends and enemies. “I will force the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for strength,” he wrote in one famous passage, “and thus will turn his strength into weakness.”
Milley has turned that old-fashioned “binary” idea on its head—he deconstructed it, you might say, and implicitly showed how out of sync with our times poor old Sun Tzu is.
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