RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
The military mission is to gain and hold ground. Actual ground, land.
The Marine mission is to gain and hold ground short term, including for punitive purposes, which definitionally are short term actions.
The Army mission is to gain and hold ground long term.
Naval, Air, Space and Cyber power are forward intelligence and artillery for assisting the Army mission, and for shorter terms, the Marine mission.
Its Army is the core of a nation, the nation’s long-term stabilizer. Her sine qua non.
If its Army cannot hold its ground, its actual land, a nation does not exist, or, it exists in thrall to another nation, without independence, meaning, without nationhood, without control of its land.
Independence is the power to hold ground, to control physical integrity.
Nationhood means independence, which means military self-sufficiency, self-reliance, self-defense.
If a nation can not or will not maintain its independence – maintaining the integrity of its land by force of arms – it goes into destruction, slavery or both.
Only military power can maintain the independence of a nation. Economic, judicial and political power, though important, are not able, alone or together, to maintain the integrity of a nation’s land.
The core, the vital center of economic, judicial and political power is military power. Economic, judicial and political power depend absolutely on successful military power.
Military power is not bushwhackers or citizen militias. It is professional military organizations trained, equipped and prepared to fight both offensive and defensive warfare.
There never has been and there never will be a time or a place where sufficient preparedness for offensive and defensive warfare is not required of a nation.
There never has been and there never will be a form of political organization that supersedes the nation state.
The Army mission is the center of the missions of the other military organizations, land, sea, air, space and cyber. Those other organizations exist to support and execute the Army mission.
The core requirement of a nation is to gain and to hold land – its own land firstly and an aggressor’s land, at least until their aggression ceases, secondly.
Illustrations of the centrality of the Army mission – gain, hold and administer, sometimes only temporarily, land – are available:
1- The administration of SCAP in Japan in 1945 and following was assigned to the Army component even though the Navy component lobbied for that responsibility. Gaining, holding and administering land is the Army mission.
2- Command of SHAEF in 1944 was given to the Army component, and for the same reason that held in Japan.
3- ChiCom military force is organized and administered as an Army mission. Air, naval, space and cyber components belong to the PLA.
(This raises an interesting question: while the invention of the General Staff is one of Germany’s great contributions to civilization, did the Germans really ever, including under the Nazi Party, grasp the centrality of the Army mission to national integrity? Did they realize that the other branches of service exist to further the Army mission? The question may have been answered already and I am unaware that it has been. If the answer is No, however, then opportunity exists for a modern Clausewitz to demonstrate the point and thereby improve on the concept of a General Staff.)
Of utmost importance to the military mission is that mid-level and senior commanders know personally their counterparts in other nations’ military organizations. This knowledge should be professional, social and academic, and it should be broad and deep.
The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
Sir Basil Henry Liddell-Hart
Someone in D.C. is able to force US Armed Forces into a position of relinquishing national identity in favor of a dream of non-national but universal technocratic decision-making supported by universal taxation.
This dream has existed in academe for decades and in communist/fascist circles for two plus centuries.
This dream is expounded daily in Washington D.C. at think-tanks such as the Brookings Institution, with intense infatuation and expectation of implementation. Echoed at think-tanks and lecture halls around the USA and Europe.
The idea is to eliminate military force and let technocrats rely on agency-specific paramilitary forces at beck and call as well as on judicial proceedings to suppress anyone anywhere rebelling against their machinations. And meanwhile impose universal taxation for world-wide projects dreamed up by technocrats and their professors, e.g., “climate change” – all, were they to admit it, aimed at reducing global population by some 80%
Huge unexamined assumptions recline there, of course, and as with all dreams, they never will be scrutinized by the dreamers. Can’t ruin the dream. One salient assumption is that the technocrats themselves can “manage” the creature they dream of implementing, and that it won’t bite them more than they can withstand.
Essentially, keep the world in turmoil in the name of bettering it, of which technocrats assume they know what and how to do. And meanwhile, Yeah!, no more military. That is really the core of it, has been all along. Anti-military. Eliminationist. A military would thwart their genocidal impulses. Economists and sociologists can handle it all – with a little help now and again from paramilitary enforcement – we don’t need a professional military.
It is, a dream, nothing more.
It helps to identify specifics of the dream. Those specifics seem remarkably unintegrated, when laid out. Bits and pieces of fantastic fondness all over the place, uncoordinated except for the common thread of being anti-military.
However, now I think of it, the anti-military bit is really a necessity of their eliminationist/genocidal impulses. So maybe the specifics of the dream do actually fit together, at the point of irresistible genocide. A professional Army would not allow that.
The dream has always had that eliminationist and anti-military core. All the social sciences, including economics, share it, contribute to it.
Denying the Army a mission, such as we see today in the USA, is a step in implementing the dream, which is to eliminate the professional military in service of eliminating the great majority of the human race. Well, except for SOCOM, which I’m sure is conceived as an assassination asset private to the technocrats and their professors.
The technocrats and their professors are oligarchs, sanctimonious, dismissive, genocidal, self-righteous, ass-covering prigs.
Update 1: I support eliminationism: let the eliminationists start with themselves.
Update 2: The Soldier’s Blue Book, The United States Army.
Update 3: 2014 U.S. Army Officer Separation Board Statistics
Update 4: 2014 Army Ethic White Paper
Update 5: U.S. Army Fiscal 2014 Personnel Assessment
Update 6: MG (RET) William F. Garrison at West Point, on War.
Update 7: Global Divestment Day
Update 8: Daniel Greenfield: The Future Does Not Belong to China
Update 9: Catherine Smith: Trump Proposes 21% Cut in U.S. Foreign Aid in 2021 Budget Proposal
AMDG
