Thread by @infantrydort

How to Remove the Generals: A 2025 "Louisiana Maneuvers" 🧵

If @SecDef is having trouble getting public support for removing generals, I'll give him a technique even his opponents can't argue with.

Do you want to silence all of the critics? Let's see if they can win or lose.👇

1/ The U.S. military is led by risk-averse careerists who can’t win wars. They rose through a broken system that rewards politics over warfighting.

We don’t need a political purge—we need a combat effectiveness purge.

Here’s how we do it. ⬇️

2/ Step 1: Announce the 2025 Louisiana Maneuvers

SECDEF should order a massive, no-notice warfighting exercise modeled after Marshall’s 1941 Louisiana Maneuvers—where he exposed incompetent generals and replaced them before WWII.

The goal? Prove who can win battles and who can’t.

3/ Step 2: Where & How It Happens

We can’t afford to waste time. This must be done rapidly, with no ability for generals to “prepare” politically.

BDE-Level & Below → Live Maneuvers at NTC/JRTC/JMRC.

Division & Above → WARSIM (Warfighter Simulation) at Fort Leavenworth or other sites.

Every combat arms division and corps HQ should be tested. If you command troops, you participate.

4/ Step 3: The Metrics for Success

This isn’t an exercise for participation trophies. It’s a stress test for command competence.

Commanders will be evaluated on:
✅ Speed & effectiveness in large-scale maneuver warfare
✅ Ability to operate under degraded comms & logistics
✅ Offensive mindset, initiative, and adaptability
✅ Combat decision-making under uncertainty

If you fail to execute combat operations effectively, you’re relieved. No excuses.

5/ Step 4: No Safety Net for Careerists

No “observer bias” from evaluators—AI-driven WARSIM will determine success/failure.

No second chances—if you fail, you’re done.

No safety based on rank or tenure—only results matter.

6/ Step 5: Immediate Action Based on Results

At the conclusion of the exercise:

Successful commanders move up.
Failures are relieved and retired.
Fresh blood from combat-proven COLs & LTCs replaces them.

We move fast because the longer these ineffective leaders stay in place, the worse our force becomes.

7/ Step 6: SECDEF Now Has a Warfighter-Backed Justification to Purge the System

This isn’t a political purge—it’s a combat readiness test.

SECDEF doesn’t need to justify removing officers based on ideology—just based on their inability to fight and win.

Even the Pentagon bureaucrats can’t argue against removing leaders who fail to perform under combat conditions.

8/ Step 7: Promote the Next Generation of Warfighters

With dead weight removed, we elevate aggressive, competent leaders who actually know how to fight.

We bypass the usual slow, peacetime promotion process and immediately assign the best performers to key warfighting roles.

9/ Final Thought: The Time for Action is NOW

America doesn’t have time for another decade of risk-averse officers playing politics while our enemies sharpen their blades.

If you can’t win in training, you won’t win in war. This exercise gives us the justification to remove dead weight, restore real leadership, and make our military lethal again.

10/ Bonus Round

Thanks for refreshing my mind to the idea @RobManess

We can do this in short order. If I have the detailed roadmap for execution in my head, surely Pentagon big brains do as well.

For your consideration: @PeteHegseth @stuartscheller

@RobManess @PeteHegseth @stuartscheller This can obviously be done incrementally so the force isn’t completely tied up in a wargame. We can get the whole military through in 9 months.