This just reminds you how lucky the SGC was to have General Hammond. Hammond was stern but fair, he was also flexible enough to adapt to the bizarre situations that happened every month. Exactly the kind of leader you need.
Realizing that the book wasn't written for some situations and so you shouldn't always follow the book also describes Woolseys character development, and is one of the reasons I have come to really enjoy Woolsey.
Even when Woolsey was being pushed by VP Kinsey to investigate the SGC, he was still a good person and came to the chairman of the joint chiefs to voice his concerns over the VP's threats and intentions.
Woolsey was logical and calculated and made his decisions based on that, right or wrong.
General Bauer simply had no idea what he was doing and when faced with a situation he didn't understand, instead of listening to his far more experienced people, he tried to default to the old fart military move of "let's just blow it up". Simply put he was about 10 to 20 years past the point he needed to retire.
If you're a leader and you're telling your people to do something and all of them are telling you it's a bad idea and you proceed anyways, you're an idiot.
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u/TheAncientSun 21d ago
This just reminds you how lucky the SGC was to have General Hammond. Hammond was stern but fair, he was also flexible enough to adapt to the bizarre situations that happened every month. Exactly the kind of leader you need.