A German Army brigadier general who recently served with NATO forces in Afghanistan is assuming duties as the chief of staff of U. S. Army Europe, the first time a non-American officer has held that position.
Brig. Gen. Markus Laubenthal, most recently the commander of Germany’s 12th Panzer Brigade in Amberg, and chief of staff of Regional Command North, International Security Assistance Force Afghanistan, will be stationed at USAREUR headquarters, Wiesbaden, Germany. He could report to duty as early as Monday.
Laubenthal also has served as military assistant to the deputy commander of operations and assistant chief of staff of operations for NATO forces in Kosovo.
As the major staff assistant to USAREUR commander Lt. Gen. Donald Campbell, Laubenthal will synchronize the command’s staff activities much as American predecessors have in the past.
“This is a bold and major step forward in USAREUR’s commitment to operating in a multinational environment with our German allies,” said Campbell.
h/t Brock
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New World Order? Now is not the time to play around with our military. I wonder what Gen. Patton would say?
David DeGerolamo
Horrifying -- yet we continue to elect to Congress people who refuse to impeach, try, convict, and remove obama. And the “conservatives” continue to clamor for still another President who is not a “natural born citizen”.
We are really stupid and shortsighted.
I can think of more adjectives to describe our people. I can only pray that adversity will bring out our true leaders and statesmen. Faith, Sacred honor, public virtue and morality must be restored.
To whom do you refer? What “other” who is also not a “natural born citizen?”
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are not “natural born citizens”.
The true leaders are out there -- but The People reject them. The People want “leaders” who tell them what they want to hear -- they DON’T want leaders who tell them the Truth. We are marching into the new world order with a world government -- and the “tea party” Americans are clamoring for an Article V Convention which will result in the new Constitution which will make it legally possible to put America into this New World Order.
Hear, Hear.
Thank for your courage, Publius. It’s astonishing how few seem able to see facts clearly, or who refuse to cover them over with more palatable, prettier falsehoods. The majority who do choose to evade unpleasant facts are members of the class of human beings who have been described this way: “There are none so blind as those who will not see.” Eventually, they will be forced to see — later, when it’s too late. And unfortunately, many of those who have seen and understood and warned, will unjustly suffer the consequences of the apathy and evasions of others which enables evil to triumph. A well-known secular philosopher has said that the root of all evil is, in fact, this willingness to evade facts and truth. Once you hear that observation stated, you can’t help but see history as a consistent series of re-confirmations of its accuracy — unless you happen to be amongst the most brain dead of the evaders who have enabled all the triumphs of evil down through the ages.
Addendum to my comment above: One function of a Constitution is to DEPRIVE this common failing of our species of its ability to produce its otherwise inevitable awful consequences. Our abandonment of Constitutional mandates and principles can thus be accurately described as the factor which has enabled the enablers of evil to regain their influence on the course of human events.
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