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RAMANAM
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen.

Countrymen,

ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT

Abnormal Conditions, Causing Recruiting Crash

Strategic Vacuum

Lethality Disconnected From Geographies
Killing Disconnected From Rational Objective
National Asset Deployment Disconnected From National Interest
GO/CSM Silence Regarding Grand Strategic Thought And Counsel

Claiming non-responsibility, above pay grade
Civilian leaders not receiving strategic counsel, rejecting it
Civilian leaders not called for pursuing a-national objectives
Strategic thinking lost in 1947-era assumptions, objectives
Examples: containment, Russia enemy, EU friend

Moral Confusion

Gender/SJW Obsessions, Accommodations
Mission Confusion

The Swirling MOOTW Drain
HomeEcon Teacher To The World
Peace Accords Rather Than Surrender Signatures
Wealth Distribution Exceeding Moral Responsibility

GO/CSM Silence Regarding Grand Strategic Thought And Counsel

Silence is consent to losing wars, battles, and prestige
Monetizing rank, access is self-aggrandizement, corrodes Army
Melting into defense industry, umpteen boards, feeds cynicism
Nepotism inside and outside the Army degrades everyone
Senior silence makes Army unattractive to potential recruits

target recruiting pools see and do nor appreciate GO/CSM dereliction and subversion regarding strategics

Asset Dissipation

Operations In Strategic Vacuums Spread Around Globe
Counter-Mission, Counter-Expectation ROEs
Risk My Life/Treasure For Foreigners?  Who Hate/Bait Me?
Why Are We/I Doing This?  You Want To Spend Me Everywhere?

The Objective Of Statecraft And Therefore Of War Is Peace

Army has not been doing that very well, nor others.  17 years in MENA and no peace in sight, even with overwhelming diplomatic, financial and military power?  Who wants to join a non-winning team?

Uniform Boredom (daily, semi-dress, not ACUs)

Inelegant, Ostentatious, Voguish, Complex

Striped Pants Bloused In Huge-Toed Boots
Breasts-Full Of Ribbons
Gold Braid For ADCs Looking Like Sea Monsters
Distracting, No Visual Resting Place, Not Simple, Classic
Thus,  Little Pride Of Uniform (a major for young persons)

CIA Kinetics / Privateering

Subverts/Demoralizes National Prestige And Sovereignty
Subverts/Duplicates/Enfeebles Army Writ . . . And Mil Writ
Subverts/Corrodes National Budget And Political Strength
Conducted With Soldier Force, Without Soldier Responsibilit
Thus, Perfect Cock-Ups For Army and Mil To Follow And Fix

(and US citizens have to pay twice for the same real estate)

Normal Conditions, Causing Recruiting Climb

BLUF:  System strength increases by removing rather than adding stuff.

Recognizing that some of what follows first is
Congressional/POTUS decision, not Mil:

Strategic Clarity

Harvard-Harris Poll Shows Heavy Support For National Sovereignty
Opportunity for Army strategic counsel and recruiting themes
GOs/CSMs are responsible for grand national strategic counsel

cannot be off-loaded to academic prostitutes and politicians

Senior Army leaders are Soldier-Statesmen and Warrior-Scholars

the objective of statecraft and therefore war is peace

Strategic Reciprocity

Allies put their life, treasure, and sacred honor into self-protection
Cease trying to buy allies, paying for infrastructure, greasing palms
Demand repayment from allies USA protects from predators

Moral Clarity

USA national independence and sovereignty are Army core realities

Must be plainly stated as such, no cute acronyms

Army values are secondary, derivatives of those core realities
Eliminate diversity/inclusion reeducation
Loose Army normal, lose Army abnormal
GOs/CSMs become Army/Army SOF recruiters, coherent message:

Army wants peace so trains to win wars
Call out civilian leaders bearing a-national objectives
Army wants no interminable conflict, endless deployment
GOs/CSMs be at peace with their own work & history

press the importance of the Soldier-Statesman

Asset Husbandry

Army internal discipline must be certain, swift, and admired

Morale is directly proportional to strong, fair discipline
Combat effectiveness is directly proportional to morale
How Army discipline is thought of outside the Army matters
If considered not tough/fair, desirable persons will not join

USA national independence and sovereignty are Army core realities
Orient Army education and promotion to produce:

Warrior-Scholars
Soldier-Statesmen
more intellectual, strategic training, less leadership cheering
more geography, engineering, drawing, mathematics, writing
more athletics (work), less sports (gambling)

Uniform Elevation (daily, semi-dress, not ACUs)

Invite Melania Trump to design daily, semi-dress Army uniforms
When design settled, keep it, and away from meddlers

1940s/50s Khaki Uniforms served elegance and cost
(think Norman Norell/Lauren Bacall for design essence)

CIA Has No Calling In Kinetics

Kinetics Is Mil Responsibility
USA Are Not An Organized Crime Syndicate
Tell This To Congress, POTUS, And Ivy League Students

many will jeer, jeering will pass, and thinking will occur

Big Army Recruiting Themes

USA national independence and sovereignty are Army core realities
Patriotism: Protect Mother Country, Punish Mother Haters
Personal Freedom — Army Loyalty — National Sovereignty
Duty Honor Country — Selfless Service — Blow Up Stuff

WP is fountainhead of Army (Colin Powell), so use the lingo

Army Smart.  Army Strong.  Army Normal.
Strong Discipline.  Structured Self-Improvement.  Shared Hardship.
Self-Confidence.  Self-Satisfaction.  Self-Sacrifice.
Be Army.  Learn People.  Use Devices.

A nation arises around her victorious ground forces, her Army

Want to win, prosper, and be noble?  Join The U.S. Army!
Wealth is land: dirt, rock, creature, river . . . geography, Army

For rational national strategic interests, war is fun, fascinating
If you want to kill, we do not want you
If you want to rule, we do not want you
If you want to train, we do not want you
If you want to be strong and happy, we want you

Army is opportunity to kick free of teacher/parent/peer stupidity

. . . and technology/device dumb-down

Less soaring music, more feo, fuerte, y formal

. . . ugly, strong, and formal

Army SOF Recruiting Themes

USA national independence and sovereignty are Army core realities
Quiet Forces For Real Bangs — Army Special Operations
Quiet Forces For Little Effects, Big Consequences —

Army Special Operations

Are You Good At Thinking?  Do You Like To Fight?  We Do That. —

Army Special Operations

We Hire Brain And We Hire Brawn.  We Also Hire Courage. —

Army Special Operations

Move To Contact.  Jump Into Danger.  Do It Smart. —

Army Special Operations

Thinking. Quiet. Sudden Impact. — Army Special Operations

sudden impact may be copyrighted, Clint Eastwood may allow

Some Big Army Recruiting Themes (above) useful

emphasize thinking, quiet/stealth, sudden impact/decision

Recruiting Methods

Roaming Professoriate, LTC/1st SGT and up, to highs schools, orgs

Get the apple off the tree, not from the barrel
Promote Army as better than college, list the ways

. . . to include no debt!

Encourage drill classes in junior and high schools

Young kids love to learn the moves/manoeuvers and their purposes, I did

Press the importance of the Warrior-Scholar

Attach college/trade school credits to Army service

Include civilian warrior contractors who maintain Army units

Service is life experience worthy of academic credit

Make Army a prestige, credentialing post-secondary school

West Point for the masses to supply Army and national economy needs

This might substitute for GI Bill at far less cost

Emphasize/budget high school/family firearms training

Jump over NRA, they have gone commercialist

Enlist Jenner/Kardashian troupe and the like as messengers

Army is cool, they like men who are men: protectors

Less soaring music, more feo, fuerte, y formal

. . . ugly, strong, and formal

Army University

Army service should have post-secondary school academic credit: Army University, for truly, Army is a genuine universe.  Credits attached to years/types of service.  Replace GI bill, perhaps.  Encourage retention.

Some companies now take certificates of one or another type as proof of knowledge instead of requiring college degrees.  Large employers (Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, etc.) might be persuaded to accept Army/military certificates of competence as proof of employment eligibility.  This would spread benefit more than would just preferential job offerings for individual veterans.  The companies could offer the same starting jobs and opportunities for advancement — at least — to veterans as they do to persons with a four-year degree.

Itemized, graduated post-secondary academic credit granted enlisted personnel for their military service would synergize with POTUS Trump’s initiative prioritizing and expanding vocational education.

Let the Army and other branches of the military service be academic credit-granting institutions for enlisted personnel.  Let the branches work out the details each on its own.

Βασιλεία του Θεού
Kingdom of God

Update 1: POTUS Trump Cabinet Meeting on American Workforce Initiatives:

Transcript

Update 2: Online program offers easy, cheap way to ‘earn college credit for what you already know’

Update 3: NRA: Americans Spend 16.9 Billion Dollars On Target Shooting

Update 4: Despite guns and schools debate, participation on high school rifle teams is increasing

Update 5: Glenn Reynolds: Abolish the Ivy League.  I commented:

The Ivy League is church-made. Abolish the churches to abolish the Ivy League.  Not so hard to do. Find them by law as political fronts.  The churches, I mean.

The Church is exclusive, not inclusive.  That fact will abolish the Ivy League, all on its own, not just talk about abolishing it.  “Have no God beside me.”  You do not get more exclusive than that.  Make that point, miracles will happen.

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA