{"id":1194575,"date":"2022-01-06T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194575"},"modified":"2022-01-06T16:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:04:51","slug":"exclusive-stu-scheller-we-need-criticism-of-military-brass-to-help-junior-service-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-stu-scheller-we-need-criticism-of-military-brass-to-help-junior-service-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Stu Scheller: We Need Criticism of Military Brass to Help Junior Service Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-stu-scheller-we-need-criticism-of-military-brass-to-help-junior-service-members%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194575&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/239373958_590005568661738_773685272400440124_n-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former Marine Lt. Col. Stu Scheller, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/27\/stu-scheller-announces-discharge-marine-corps-planned-media-blitz\/\">lost<\/a> his career after demanding accountability over the botched withdrawal in Afghanistan, argued&nbsp;in an exclusive interview with SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em> on Thursday&nbsp;that criticism of military generals is needed to help junior service members.<\/p>\n<p>Scheller told show host and Breitbart News Editor in Chief Alex Marlow, \u201cMilitary leaders that should be advising on [Afghanistan] absolutely can be held accountable, and it just goes back to [how] we\u2019ve been lionizing the military. People want to show appreciation, and criticizing them almost feels un-American. But the truth is, we need criticism of those general officers more than we ever have before to help the junior service member.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He said while senior officers have closed ranks and expressed disapproval over his speaking out against the military chain of command, junior enlisted Marines have privately supported him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t drive into the gate without somebody wanting to shake my hand, or give me a hug, or take a picture with me,\u201d Scheller said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He said there is a \u201clong list\u201d of military and civilian leaders who should be held accountable at the operational and strategic level, drawing a comparison to the tactical successes but strategic failure in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are winning every battle, the tactical level of war with the young service member \u2014 they are successful.&nbsp;Every single time. Where we are failing more is at the operational-strategic level\u2026So when you\u2019re talking Iraq and Afghanistan, that\u2019s the CENTCOM combatant command; that four-star general takes what the National Security Council and the president are telling him and translates it into military members executing plans on the tactical level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat link \u2014 from the four-star combatant commander to the National Security Council, secretary of defense, President of the United States \u2014 is where we are failing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said after Vietnam, general officers were not held accountable and sought to focus on the tactical level, \u201ceven though that\u2019s not where the failure occurred, and the same thing is happening right now with the GWOT [Global War on Terror] generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said now they\u2019re saying, \u201c\u2018We need to mature the force. We need to look at distributed operations. We need to do all these different things on a tactical level.\u2019 That\u2019s not where we\u2019re failing. We need to hold general officers accountable at the operational level. We need to hold the secretary of defense \u2014 there\u2019s a long list of them [who] need to be held accountable \u2014 for the failures in the link between the strategic operational to the tactical level, and so that, to me, is the fundamental problem, and how you do that is you hold general officers accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the perfect example of lack of accountability is the U.S. drone strike in the final days of the Afghanistan withdrawal where 10 innocent Afghan civilians, including an aid worker for the United States and seven children, were killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople in war die, everybody knows that, but we can\u2019t give a free pass based on bad planning, bad decisions, and say, \u2018Well, people died but that\u2019s the cost of war.\u2019 Yes, people die in war, but we still have to hold people accountable to a standard of, \u2018Did you make good decisions? Did you set the framework to protect people?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe attacked people bringing water to needy people and we killed civilians and children, and no one was held accountable,\u201d he said. \u201cI think [CENTCOM Commander] General McKenzie is the number one guy that should be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Breitbart News\u2019s Kristina Wong on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kristina_wong\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kristinawongreporting\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Marine Lt. Col. Stu Scheller, who lost his career after demanding accountability over the botched withdrawal in Afghanistan, argued\u00a0in an exclusive interview with SiriusXM\u2019s Breitbart News Daily on Thursday\u00a0that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}