Its my one tiny hope as well. When you look at the history of the US military, Generals/Admirals have almost always been political positions, ranging from "Still Competent" to "Utter Retard", punctuated by a handful of guys who were EXTREMELY good at their job. To go with one example I know off the top of my head, Ernest King called Pearl Harbor several years before it actually happened. During a wargame, he was the only one to actually utilize his carriers as the main strike for his fleet instead of using them in support of his battleships like all of the other admirals had. Everyone else said he was crazy, said his tactics couldnt work, or that he got lucky. Then the attacked on Pearl happened, and King is over in the corner chomping on a cigar saying "Told you." Which lead to him getting promoted to Fleet Admiral to get through WW2. He is memed as "God-Emperor of the US Navy" for a reason.

But while our Command-level staff is usually utterly useless, our E-6s (Staff Sergeant/Petty Officer) and O-6s (Colonel/Captain) have an unusually high amount of power over the war effort, and are usually the guys actually kicking ass, taking names, and coming up with tactics on the fly, while the Command Staff are saying "Advance in this general direction." There are few, if any, militaries that give that kind of free range to their lower level officers, and I HIGHLY doubt any sort of Chinese force we would potentially fight would have that sort of control, and be heavily controlled from the top down (like with the Soviets before them).

Its the one reason why I am actually not blackpilled on any sort of potential war with China. But I do think we would take far more losses in the early war than we would have if we kept morons like Milley away from the control.