Throughout history, there's always been people who have gotten to where they are not because of any special abilities they have or because of their personal achievements, but because they knew the right people and had enough money. Think Jared Kushner, think Kim Kardashian, think Erskine Cooney in Robert Aldrich's Attack.
As we come to learn early in this picture, Cooney is incompetent, a screw-up, and also a captain in the U.S. Army as it fights on the European Front…