May 1, 2020 - Steve Pieczenik
03:42
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| Hi, this is Dr. | |
| Buchanan. | |
| Today I want to talk about military defiance of civilians. | |
| I want to talk about the Admiral's revolt against President Truman. | |
| That occurred between 1945 and 1950. | |
| Why is that relevant to today? | |
| Well, there's an Admiral by the name of Gilday, an officer and a gentleman of about my height, 5'6", who has reinstated Captain Crozier, the gentleman who was thrown off By Secretary of Defense Mike Esper and the Secretary of the Navy, as well as the White House, for having written 20 or 25 letters stating that his naval officers had coronavirus on board the Roosevelt. | |
| In defiance of that, Admiral Gilday is saying, I'm reinstating Crozier into the Navy, defying the President and the Secretary of Defense. | |
| However, this recalls a very famous incident for me about admirals, some of whom I had known about. | |
| In 1945, Curtis LeMay, who had developed an incredible air force and strategic bombing, he and McNamara He developed what was called saturation bombing, going from 35,000 feet to 10,000 feet. | |
| He came back to President Truman and said, we do not need a Navy anymore. | |
| I do not need aircraft carriers. | |
| I do not need destroyers. | |
| Basically, I have a strategic air command that can do what the Navy did. | |
| Truman agreed, as did Secretary of Defense George Marshall and Omar Bradley. | |
| All three have said we don't need this big a navy. | |
| I have a hundred billion dollar GDP and 41% of that is going to the military and the navy has to cut down the number of aircraft carriers and destroyers. | |
| Twenty to thirty admirals resigned in protest as well as other naval officers. | |
| She said that is not going to happen. | |
| We need a navy and we're not going to follow the orders. | |
| In turn, James Forstall, who was Secretary of the Navy and a man who loved the Navy, defied President Truman's orders. | |
| In response, President Truman fired James Forstall. | |
| What happened to him is a sad story. | |
| He went to Bethesda Naval Hospital for a mental breakdown and unfortunately committed suicide by jumping off that hospital. | |
| In turn, what happened is the Navy hid many of their vessels and their aircraft carriers and defied any orders from the White House or from General Marshall. | |
| In turn, what eventually happened is the revolt of the admirals, one of whom I knew very well, an admiral by the name of Wick Toole, who was the stenographer, the writer, and the historian for this event, And unfortunately, he died recently. | |
| He told me that as a result of the Admiral's defiance and revolt, we had a navy that was prepared to go to war when the invasion of North Korea occurred into South Korea. | |
| In 1950, lo and behold, a few weeks after the defiance of the Admiral's revolt, North Korea had invaded South Korea and we decided to implement a What was called an amphibious landing under General MacArthur Thank |
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