Global Force for Good Update

By lex, on May 4th, 2010

In the spring of 2008 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was engaged in a simmering dispute with USAF leadership that, clearly considering him a member of a lame duck administration, openly disputed his position on the F-22 Raptor program. Gates wanted the service to focus more on armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles used in the Global War on Terror, and less on exotic capabilities targeted towards theoretical wars. In the summer of that same year, when an embarrassing series of blunders with the Air Force’s nuclear weapons program became public, Gates seized the opportunity to show the junior service who was in charge *, firing both the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff.

Air Force got the hint.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex