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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 14, 2021 11:34:51 GMT -8
An excellent piece which gets to one of the fundamental problems facing our military power. The military is not a democracy The USA has too many leaders untethered from reality. They come up with all sorts of nonsensical theories, ideas and programs just to show how "clever" they are. Francis Fukayama and his "The End of History" comes to mind. Like many of his kind, he has swallowed the Hegelian view of life. The fact that this view has led to endless misery through its major proponents such as Marx, doesn't seem to occur to these true believers. Worse is that anyone who has the slightest understanding of history will know that it does not move in a straight line and that Utopia is not the inevitable terminus. With their embrace of Hegelianism, the universities have been turning out educated idiots for a couple of centuries now. Given man's desire, inclination, fetish (?) to categorize everything, with the idea that if something is orderly it can be controlled, it is perhaps no surprise that our mistaken belief in societal determinism blows up in our faces every now and then. The geniuses of the world are still having trouble believing that people are not just machines. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 14, 2021 14:53:58 GMT -8
Jesus, that describes pretty much everything wrong with the West. That especially includes feminism which has now been taken to its natural extreme. If we have to ignore the differences between men and women in order to lift women up, then we will one day say there are no differences and that, in fact, gender is a complete fabrication, as changeable as your hair color.
So tell me I'm wrong. Of course, I'm not. I'm just not afraid to state the obvious.
This is a good paragraph:
I can certainly understand the overall point that you denude the military of its effectiveness if you apply civilian rules and goals to it. If not for a few button-pushers in armchairs in charge of some extremely dangerous weapons, the U.S. could be rolled easily by a foreign power right now. Obviously, in Afghanistan it has been.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 19, 2021 12:32:53 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 4, 2022 20:26:45 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 18, 2022 15:05:28 GMT -8
The U.K. is on the fast track to becoming defenseless. Quotas in the military I know most leftists are stupid, but I am convinced that the enemies of the U.K., and the West, are behind such policies. They want the West to fall. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 21, 2022 7:25:24 GMT -8
Yep. And it's ironic that a woman resigned in protest because affirmative action for women started all this.
From a number of books I've read about WWII, Churchill, The Blitz, etc., I get the impression that during the war, the British put a high value on competency rather than anything else. They had to. They were fighting for their lives. I think they were far more operationally competent (perhaps outside of General Montgomery) than the Americans who obviously were technically more competent in manufacturing techniques, etc.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 14, 2022 18:54:16 GMT -8
The link is to the headline article at Military.com. Women haven't broken the SEALs glass ceiling As everything else in the USA, the military is being degraded. I believe this is intentional. Those at the top are giving instructions and those lower down are happy to follow them. Watch for more debacles like the Afghanistan withdrawal. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 6, 2022 10:48:51 GMT -8
This is what mercenaries do. Retired British Pilots Train CCP Air Force Mercenaries, also know as "soldiers of fortune" are a particularly disgusting type. They sell death and they only learn their lesson by being defeated and killed. |
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Post by artraveler on Nov 6, 2022 11:22:59 GMT -8
Mercenaries also train and work with developing nations to build a credible military. Yes, it is the money first but that is a necessary element. No body risks life for free. We all have a price for some it is glory, some patriotism, or even the thrill of battle. For a Merc is is the money.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 6, 2022 12:47:37 GMT -8
Very few mercenaries are of the Micky Marcus type. Money doesn't appear to have been his motivation. My point exactly. Paid to kill. |
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Post by artraveler on Nov 6, 2022 13:36:40 GMT -8
As long as governments require men and women to do some of the nastiest military operations there'll be men and women willing to put life on the line fore pay. It is not pretty, glorious or patriotic but it is necessary. One man's mercenary is another's hero. In the view of Santa Anna Travis and his company at Alamo were traitors and mercenaries. POV is everything.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 6, 2022 14:09:52 GMT -8
Sorry, I don't buy that relativist view. I don't know of any evidence that Davy Crockett went to the Alamo on basis of a monthly salary and benefits. The same holds true for Travis, Bowie and Houston, who was not at the Alamo and later defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto.
Santa Anna saw such men as traitors and rebels. Rebels they were. Traitors is another question, because it was Santa Anna's repealing of the Mexican Constitution of 1824 and his illegal arrest of Stephen F. Austin which finally brought about the rebellion. In any case, the Tejanos were not anything close to Blackwater types.
I understand mercenaries have been a part of war since time immemorial. Hell, Greek mercenaries fought on the side of the Persians against Greece. Now as then, most are just murderers for hire.
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Post by artraveler on Nov 6, 2022 14:30:09 GMT -8
Davy Crockett went to the Alamo on basis of a monthly salary and benefits. No they went for something more basic, land and in any century land is wealth. This is not to say they did not have other motives. Crockett and his band of Tennesseans could just as easily been the Blackwater of the 19th century. Crockett had the backing of neither the revolutionary Texas government or the United States officially but unofficially both wanted him there. There is often very little difference between "paid killer" and patriot. Like I said POV matters, but it also matters who wins. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 6, 2022 14:38:30 GMT -8
Which Crockett did. He was already thinking of going to Texas in 1834 because of the political situation in the USA. Texas was, at the time, a place to go for those not happy with the political climate in the USA. Today, there is no Texas, so we have to fight on our own ground.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jan 8, 2023 8:30:34 GMT -8
An example of why I do not put the military on a pedestal. They are our largest bureaucracy and like every bureaucracy, they follow "Kung's Rules for Bureaucracies." And I repeat; the prime directive of any bureaucracy is to protect and expand the bureaucracy. The secondary directive reads, "see prime directive." I believe our present military is worse than usual. That is not surprising given the general decline in morals and intelligence the USA is experiencing across the board. We will lie until caught lying and then lie some more Remember another one of Kung's maxims. "You may lie to others, as long as you realize you are lying, and still function reasonably. But once you start believing your own lies you are lost." |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 13, 2023 12:21:39 GMT -8
I'm no defender of the Biden Administration. But I'll sign on to all the hand-wringing by the ACLU when they bring lawsuits against Hamas (or several other terrorist organizations) for their intentional killing of civilians by bombs.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 9, 2023 21:48:52 GMT -8
Lindsey Graham is a pervert, whore warmonger who never misses a chance to send American soldiers in harm's way and fill the pockets of the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Security-State-Foreign-Service-Financial Complex. By the way, he is a full open-borders prostitute. Maybe so he can get a regular supply of little Latino boys. Let's invade Mexico |
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Post by artraveler on Mar 9, 2023 22:18:47 GMT -8
The border is a problem that can no longer be solved with diplomacy. It will now require force, so Lord Lindsey is half right. The first action is to close the border to all but legal entrants. The next action is to assure the Mexican government that American forces are going to enforce the closure and the rules of engagement are weapons free. As Black Jack Pershing did a little over 100 years ago we have to go after the cartels and destroy their operations. It will not be pretty, Mexico will hate us, the world will declare us warmongers, as will the left. Give me freedom of action, a regiment of recon Marines and I will do it in 90 days.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 10, 2023 8:38:07 GMT -8
The measures you mention are correct, but no RINO has done more to keep those, and other, measures from being implemented than Miss Lindsey. He, like most of the warmongers in the USA, does his best to cause particular situations to steadily worsen until they reach the point where he and others of his ilk can declare, "We need to invade (fill in the blank.)" I hate these people with a passion. They care nothing for regular people, foreign or domestic. A curse on them all.
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Post by artraveler on Mar 10, 2023 11:20:33 GMT -8
no RINO has done more to keep those, and other, measures from being implemented than Miss Lindsey That is true. In conjunction with the RINOs we have the Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations screwing up international relations so badly that only harsh military action can bring them back to normal. Notice that I left out the Trump administration. For his few mistakes DJT can be forgiven as his intent was always, I believe still is, to further American culture and values first. The others are globalists to greater or lesser extent and deserve to be shamed by history. So now, we have people like Lord Lindsey, who have suddenly discovered a country needs a border and are advocating military force to ensure that border. Where the F**k was he 10 or even 5 years ago? Or even last week? |
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