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RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

Countrymen,

ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT

War’s very purpose is victory.  …  There is no substitute for victory.
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur

Regrettably, GOA MacArthur felt compelled to issue that advice.  He should not have felt compelled to issue it, but he, and rightly so.

An enemy is anyone who wants to or is trying to diminish one’s power, which is the definition of harming one.  We call such wishes and acts aggression.  Victory over an enemy is achieved when said enemy renounces not only their efforts but also their desires, their will to diminish one’s power, their will to aggress.

The defeat of an enemy’s aggression by armed force, diplomacy and finance is only the prelude to victory over an enemy.  Victory over an enemy comprises the enemy’s renunciation of the will to aggress.  Nothing less than that renunciation by an enemy is victory by their victim.  Mere military, diplomatic or financial dominance of an enemy is not victory over them.

Traditionally but not necessarily an enemy’s renunciation of the will to aggress is embodied as an instrument of unconditional surrender of and by the vanquished to the victor and signed by the chiefs of state, general staff and military branches, or their deputies, of both combatants.

Victory is a phenomenon in life’s dimension of pneuma (spirit), not life’s dimensions of psyche (mind) or soma (body), although defeat of an enemy in those dimensions of life is a necessary preliminary to victory in the dimension of spirit.

What convinces an enemy that they have been well and truly beaten, beyond hope of rising again?  Answer: a courageously magnanimous gesture by the victor enabling the vanquished to retain their personhood and means of self-support.

An enemy is vanquished when they, on their own, realize, from some gesture by their victor, that their potency and even their potentials for aggression are not only diminished, deflated, defeated and dissipated, they no longer exist … and yet … they the vanquished retain their personhood and ability to continue living.  When they see all of that — and it takes only a small gesture from the victor to show it them — the vanquished know they are done, the war is over, and they lost, period, time to live and learn.

A defeated enemy who still struggles, to revivify their potency and potentials for aggressive action, is not vanquished.  If they are still kicking, they are unconvinced of their defeat.  Their will to aggress persists.  Their opponent has not been victorious.

In the same way, a combatant who believes they have been victorious over an enemy who yet finds it necessary, desirable or both to persecute said enemy and lay heavy burdens on him is not a victor.  Machine-gunning prisoners is an act of revenge or sadism, not war, and only unsuccessful personalities, their power neither plenary nor free, desire retribution or gratification through sadism.

So really, only victory in war — and in the dimension of spirit — settles peace upon the land.  By definition, it is impossible to negotiate peace or even surcease of hostilities because negotiation by definition leaves the will to aggress intact.  Absence of the will to aggress is the only condition of man known to be peaceful.

Victory in war occurs in the spiritual dimension of life or it does not occur.  War in the dimensions of psyche and soma can cause life to cease to exist, but only victory in the dimension of pneuma can cause life to endure and flourish.  War is constructive only when it results in victory of one side over the other.  Short of victory, war is merely making a mess.

This is why war’s very purpose is victory.  Who of responsible mien wants to make a mess?  War when it comes must be fought through to victory.   And war will come when it will come.  But only victory will end war, and victory is in the dimension of pneuma (spirit), only.

Furthermore, the civilian persons who enable war, who provide its means and leadership, will not condone war if their triune power of statecraft — diplomacy, finance, war-fighting — does not aim for and achieve victory in a reasonable amount of time, steadily and without hesitation.

The following examples illustrate these points:

When Jihadis, Salafi or Shia, control an area, they exterminate and destroy within it.  This means they do not control that area, as events subsequent to their rampages in, so far, most areas illustrate.

When the German High Command signed a treaty with the Allied Powers at Versailles, those powers imposed lethal punishments on Germans as a people.  What did they get in return, predictably: more war.  The Allied Powers were not victorious at Versailles.

When GOA MacArthur, battle commanders and government representatives of the Allied Powers accepted the unconditional surrender of the Japanese Government and Imperial General Staff, Japan as a nation was responding to a courageously magnanimous gesture by GOA MacArthur: landing in an unarmed transport — himself unarmed, his staff unarmed — and standing on the steps momentarily just outside his aircraft’s door at Atsugi Naval Facility, which was staffed by armed Japanese troops and aircraft.  He also forbad Allied troops to demand the personal side arms of Japanese Soldiers.  And when he realized Japanese were starving, he sent Allied rolling kitchens to feed them.  And when The UK and The Soviet demanded trial and execution of the Emperor for war crimes, he said, in effect, over my dead body.  The Emperor was not to blame for the war and made a great act of personal courage by ordering his government to accept the Allies’ terms of unconditional surrender.  He even offered himself to MacArthur as solely responsible for the war and its terrible events, which MacArthur knew was not true.  However, the offer showed the Emperor to GOA MacArthur as The First Gentleman of Japan. Allied Powers achieved victory over Japan and GOA MacArthur’s courageous magnanimity controlled the country for its resurrection to new being.  The Japanese retained their personhood and gradually built their self-sufficiency, which is the ground of their sovereignty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1p8OIWdnAo

When General Grant accepted the Surrender of The Army of Northern Virginia, General R. E. Lee, Commanding, he did not demand Lee’s or his officers’ swords, he paroled the veterans rather than imprisoning them, he allowed them to keep their weapons — needed to hunt food — on condition of their paroles and, most importantly, he allowed them to return home with their horses — needed to put in crops to support the veterans’ families and neighbors through the winter.  And he did not make Lee beg for any of these accommodations to humane realism.  GOA MacArthur later said that spirit of Grant’s actions at Appomattox Court House helped guide his administration of Japan.  GOA MacArthur’s mother was a Virginian by birth who married a Union Officer of Scots descent, then CPT and later LTG Arthur MacArthur.  Arthur and Douglas MacArthur are the only father and son who have received the USA Medal of Honor.

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