Priorities... Perhaps appearance is supposed to a critical part of the job--impressing our enemies with our power and resolve. Or maybe not.
I remember an article in Time back in very early 70's about a historian's new book. During the interview the author said that in the past couple of hundred years of war, the side with the worst-dressed generals won. I don't know if that was sufficiently true, but it might be an amusing rule of thumb. The Vietnam war was still on and the interviewer wondered if the rule applied.
The contrast of the "Ribbon and Medal Chests" of the last administrations general staff with Dwight Eisenhower's decorations was vivid. Some of those creatures looked like a cross between a Banana Republic General and a San Francisco drag queen. They have little credence when it come to sartorial elegance.
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Priorities... Perhaps appearance is supposed to a critical part of the job--impressing our enemies with our power and resolve. Or maybe not.
I remember an article in Time back in very early 70's about a historian's new book. During the interview the author said that in the past couple of hundred years of war, the side with the worst-dressed generals won. I don't know if that was sufficiently true, but it might be an amusing rule of thumb. The Vietnam war was still on and the interviewer wondered if the rule applied.
The contrast of the "Ribbon and Medal Chests" of the last administrations general staff with Dwight Eisenhower's decorations was vivid.
Some of those creatures looked like a cross between a Banana Republic General and a San Francisco drag queen.
They have little credence when it come to sartorial elegance.
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