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19. Nov. 2019
Hackworth: a strange obsolete officer
Hackworth's writing style is not that of a traditional officer and I don't think in the final assessment that that's a good thing. Hackworth's non-academic origins bleed through quite a bit. His criticisms are incomplete and his suggestions for improvement are vague and sometimes insignificant sounding. Some of the things he criticized he was just simply wrong for criticizing. He criticized the army for having an overly assertive OPSEC posture while readying for desert storm. He thought that as a reporter he could wander anywhere and the fact that he was simply American gave him immunity. In other cases he admits showing a fake letter from a general giving him permission to wander around or falsley claimed to be army intelligence. He would get bent out of shape if a sergeant didn't fall for his act or pointed a weapon at him while investigating. He criticized General Schwarzkopf for being "bunkered up" instead of leading from the front in desert storm. He mentioned his admiration for Patton in WWII for allegedly doing so (with Patton admiring Civil War generals for doing so). This did not take into consideration the massively enhanced information and communication apparatus of the army in 1991 vs WWII or the Civil War. He also criticized large expenditures on planes and other weapons and lamented the issue of some soldiers being issued jungle boots unsuited for their environment in the middle east. It wasn't something that I felt had any impact on the outcome of that 100 hour war. Hackworth has almost nothing but negative things to say about most of the army leadership but was part of that leadership himself. He sounds as if he was powerless pawn in his day but brags about knowing so many high level officers that he can get favors from in his work as a reporter. Because of these things and his generally vulgar erratic prose, it feels like he is neither the type of military man most soldiers can relate to OR learn from.
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