I was confused as well. I didn't think there were any outstanding controversies around Gen. Mitchell, but you never know...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell

I too was confused. Billy Mitchell is a character in the UK soap EastEnders, who has recently been falsely accused of murder.

Mitchell along with Douhet was one of the most important thinkers of military aviation. There’s a 1955 movie, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell featuring Gary Cooper as Mitchell, I thought this was what this HN post was about, not some utterly unimportant and meaningless gamer controversy.

I think you have the wrong game, this is Donkey Kong not Call of Duty ;)

He's the closest we've ever come to the US military leading a major attack on its own citizens. He was only stopped by others because of the optics.

He really, really wanted to bomb things.

Ha ha, had to look that one up.