FWIW Russia’s Shoygu is a career engineer and politician. He just looks ferociou

FWIW Russia’s Shoygu is a career engineer and politician. He just looks ferocious. He was given the position for political reasons. Not because he has military experience. He’s our equivalent of the head of the Department of Emergency Services (an engineering and logistics job).

China’s Chang (patronym’s are stated first in China) is a career officer, but a career administrative officer, and not a warrior. He is in his position because china is in a period of expansion and he was previously in charge of acquisition and development of equipment.

Iran’s Dehghan is a career air force officer with decades of military and intelligence experience. While not a ground-force commander he is battle tested, and holds his position out of demonstrated merit.

There is no comparison to Mattis in this world. He is an example of the prussian continental and us marine american traditions. These are the two most stoic and empircal military traditions on earth. Unfortunately postwar moralism has polluted most of europe. We’d have to go back to germans of the world wars, or the germanic americans (patton, eisenhower, macarthur etc).

This is why the interference of Clinton in the military must never be repeated. We need to replicate the marine culture in the army, separate the warriors from the technicians, give the warriors amazing retirement or injury benefits, and remove them from the technicians. We have to restore ‘arianism’ (roman/prussian stoicism) to our martial class and reposition the monarchy as the ward of that tradition stated clearly and without reservation in a constitution.