It’s an interesting point. The generals mostly went along with Hitler because (a) he was winning and (b) he was able to use his private armies to carry out a coup which removed any alternative sources of power. He rewarded them extravagantly in the early parts of the War to keep them on side, giving them estates in Poland as an incentive to keep the borders going Eastward when the time came. Even so, there were numerous plots against him, they were just badly executed.
I can’t see today’s generals being too impressed by the chance of being awarded some radioactive real estate in the South China Sea, especially if the East and West coasts and Colorado are likely to be equally radioactive.
In the same way that top staff was removed from the State Department via resignations and firings, I think you’ll see large swaths of the DoD, DHS, NSA, CIA, etc. reassigned, fired, released, etc. Seems to me that they’ll largely do it top down by reworking boards, reconfiguring responsibilities, etc. in the name of “restructuring”, “efficiency”, “modernizing”, “rebuilding”, etc. Those recent “great rebuilding” EOs, the “readiness review” directives, and so on are all looking like they are going to be used to reshape the military so that messy decisions about following evil orders are a lot less stressful all around. The new military will be the military that does what the WH says. Sure, there will be large swaths of the military that might feel iffy about, say, bombing Iran or nuking NK but they will not be in charge, they’ll be scrambling to hold on to their jobs, converting to civilian life and trying to find healthcare, etc.
Ok… Lets see.
I’ll use the RMS Titanic as the example.
RMS Titanic:
Cruising: 21 kn (39 km/h; 24 mph). Max: 24 kn (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Distance between new york and london: 3,470 miles
Being generous, I’ll say the RMS Titanic was traveling at it’s top speed of 28 mph, 24 hours a day for the entire trip:
3,470 divided by 28 mph equals 144.583 hours.
144.583 hours divided by 24 hours equals 6,024 days.
And that’s max speed not cruising and not even taking into account any bad weather.
Federal agencies are ignoring a court order to continue enforcing an executive order. The rule of law is currently a fiction at the federal level. It’s a-boiling.
“Alliterative” usually means the sound of the first letter is the part that matches. All the coolest supervillains style themselves that way: Lex Luthor, Doctor Doom, Captain Cold, Gorilla Grodd, uh… Condiment King…
3470/28 = 124, not 144. (Anyway ships usually went Liverpool-NY which is a little shorter. Going from London implies going away from NY and then down the Channel, which is wasteful of fuel.)
Argue with Dr. Rodrigue if you like. Titanic is a bad example because it was actually quite a slow ship. The German liners and Mauretania/Lusitania were designed to do around 28mph continuous; there is no point at all in designing a passenger ship to travel at anything but its maximum cruising speed because, if you do, you are wasting metal.
