Sun Tzu, General Norman Schwarzkopf and Supreme Commander of the Allies then later Commander-in-Chief of the resulting US Armed Foces post-WWII Dwight D. Eisenhower are laughing at you, Pete Kegsbreath.
They’re not the only ones, either. While he didn’t reach the lofty position of Secretary of Defence, someone else effectively had far more power: to destroy what he paranoically thought was ‘The Enemy Within’.
As if it wasn’t enough that as ‘Tailgunner Joe’ he was the laughingstock of the US Marines previously, Joseph McCarthy gave everyone Schadenfreude galore when aiming his paranoia at his own country’s military it all blew up in his face.
When it did, and by his C-in-C’s brilliant strategic move of doing nothing thus giving him enough political rope to hang himself with, Eisenhower said ‘McCarthyism was McCarthyWASm’: the rest of the Republican party following their leader’s example and ignoring him resulted in that alcoholic becoming - and dying - a pickled irrelevance. Decades later, we have this… thing.
This is your brain on booze. All things in moderation.
Except rightardism.