Principle I
Principle II
Principle III
An order to deploy which lacks or frustrates intent to compel a target to sign a declaration of unconditional surrender is an unlawful order by the Rules of Just War, the Conventions of War, Common Sense, and the Spirit of America.
Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.
The First American Civil War tested the viability of states’ sovereignty (states’ rights) and slavery. The Second American Civil War tests the viability of states’ sovereignty and abortion. Abortion is a far more heinous evil than slavery. Slavery was and abortion is, as is known, Democratic Party non-negotiable.
One surmises that, since CIA-clad Junta promise all-of-government action against Texas over this law, coming soon are nationalization of the Texas NG, deployment of 82nd and/or 101st to seize Texas government and nullify their anti-abortion and true-the-vote laws, CIA and DHS assassination teams at work, and alerts to 1st Cav (Hood) and 1st AD (Bliss) to standby for suppression of civil insurrection.
A Lincoln is not in the White House. This one has to be handled locally and with unceasing prayer for Divine Light to see and strengthen Americans’ freedoms and states’ sovereignties as extant, patent presences.
It has only just begun. Enemies are friends being given equipment and skills, friends are enemies being denied the same. Terrorists are negotiators and heroes despicable. Foreign hegemons are allies eagerly romanced, domestic patriots are seditionists eagerly incarcerated, and without trial. US Armed Forces are radically reduced in equipment and personnel (Army) or personnel in favor of equipment (Navy, Air Force). Geo-strategic defensive lines are retracted towards the American homeland with intent to erase them altogether. Plans are in execution to remove US states’ sovereignties altogether along with the very concepts of private property and nuclear family. The Pacific is handed to CCP. U.S. Army is headed out of the Pacific. CIA self-fund in partnerships with domestic and foreign entities — especially CCP — to conduct business-industrial-philanthropic-criminal, SPECTRE-type activities that guide D.C. UniParty’s policies and decisions away from national sovereignty and personal freedom towards global governance by absolutist civilian, CIA-approved junta.
The problem is conceptual more than personal. Firing GOFOs, although deserved, would not solve the problem. The Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA, late 90s/early 00s) emphasized, conceptually, gadgets over leadership and talking over fighting, the motivating assumption (concept) being that p-to-p conflict now is potentially so gory as to be unsustainable politically or financially. Perpetual small wars were advocated by RMA proponents, for holding competitors at bay but keeping them as a stone in the shoe. This and force and mission risk aversion gave rise to conceptual emphases on SOF (surgical strikes, low-intensity warfare) and conceptual de-emphasis of geo-political strategics, which are the specific responsibility of GOFOs. US grand national strategic interests became matters of disinterest. To D-R UniParty they remain so. To Americans they remain matters of deep and decisive interest.
RMA degraded US military competency and elevated GOFO irresponsibility. RMA was one in a line of conceptual assaults on the spirit of American military professionals and its effects ring forth today most forcefully. The services, today, were wise to unite to expunge RMA and its detritus from their prayerbooks and breviaries.
Admiral Byng was lawfully executed for not fighting an enemy to their defeat or his destruction. GOFOs today are fired for embarrassing their superiors, wantonness, or wanting to fight an enemy to their destruction. Government by usurpers is upside down, conjuring cowardice instead of cultivating courage.
I surmise intentions are to bring PLA through Oakland, to own CA’s Central Valley, Los Angeles, to own CA’s LA Basin, Seattle, to own WA’s Puget Sound, Portland to own OR’s Willamette Valley, and San Diego, to own CA’s Imperial Valley. Then, form east-facing sally ports east of the line of the Sierra Nevadas-Cascades. Joint operations training exercises they would be called, and proof of concept partner interoperability.
Can they do this, and cannot get success?
Tut, were it farther off, they’d make a mess.
This is who our betters are, our elites:
Why, love forswore me in my mother’s womb:
And, for I should not deal in her soft laws,
She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,
To shrink mine arm up like a wither’d shrub;
To make an envious mountain on my back,
Where sits deformity to mock my body;
To shape my legs of an unequal size;
To disproportion me in every part,
Like to a chaos, or an unlick’d bear-whelp
That carries no impression like the dam.
And am I then a man to be beloved?
O monstrous fault, to harbour such a thought!
Then, since this earth affords no joy to me,
But to command, to cheque, to o’erbear such
As are of better person than myself,
I’ll make my heaven to dream upon the crown,
And, whiles I live, to account this world but hell,
Until my mis-shaped trunk that bears this head
Be round impaled with a glorious crown.
And yet I know not how to get the crown,
For many lives stand between me and home:
And I,–like one lost in a thorny wood,
That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns,
Seeking a way and straying from the way;
Not knowing how to find the open air,
But toiling desperately to find it out,–
Torment myself to catch the English crown:
And from that torment I will free myself,
Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.
Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
And cry ‘Content’ to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions.
I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;
I’ll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
I’ll play the orator as well as Nestor,
Deceive more slily than Ulysses could,
And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.
I can add colours to the chameleon,
Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tut, were it farther off, I’ll pluck it down.
Henry VI, part 3 | Act 3, Scene 2,
The Immortal Bard
It surfaces as the desire to feel superior. Its actuality is fear with no knowledge of the means to overcome it this side of psychotropic drugs, which mask but do not overcome. And what that means is, like Gloucester, Richard III, never having experienced a mother’s love. Mothers teach children how to overcome fear or they never learn it and instead become overbearing prats.
American and foreign Leftists have disabled American schools, families, and religious and legal institutions. Time to disable the American military services. They have already demoralized the same. Forcing women into services, and especially into MOSs, would disable American (patriotic) military strength altogether. So it is reasonable for American and foreign Leftists to want to do just that and get away with as much of it as they can do meanwhile. The damage potential is more in the forced MOSs than in the forced service per se.
This goes hand-in-hand with emptying prisons and psych hospitals, prosecuting for politics rather than crime, and flooding the country with criminal and dependent aliens.
All these vectors are meant to drive you out of your home, off of your property, and out of your schools so American and foreign Leftists — e.g., Blackstone, British, German, French, Saudi, ChiCom, and Swiss banks, hedge funds, and real estate holding companies, CCP families, and CIA-clad philanthropies — can claim ownership of those assets. They say so in plain language, and they put their words into correlative actions in board rooms, on the streets, and in the schools and homes. Leftists are entirely reasonable when looked at from their assumption that there is no authority, only power. All actual authority — e.g., American (patriotic) Armed Forces, true love, strong families, and true learning — is a mortal threat to Leftie intentions.
Lefties tie this culture-shaking movement, this civilizational tipping-point to deconstructing what has been built because it was designedly, and rightly, built to leave them without plenary power. Really, however, the great shifting underway ties to a general consensus to de-industrialize education and religion, and with that, to decentralize authority along with its integral powers. An eye on local boards of education affords an insider’s look at what is really happening, the real movement. No need to waste time, money, and energy trying to shut down colleges. Parents and their children see to that by not applying for admission. Harvard’s very prestige is a coffin. The truly learned lead simple lives and avoid publicity.
Mandatory public education made some sense when Americans agreed on what they wanted their kids to learn. Now that Americans do not agree on what they want their kids to learn, mandatory public education is prima facie illegal and de facto domestic violence and civil insurrection. Let parents who want their kids indoctrinated in this or that fad do so. Let parents who want their kids educated do so. A few years out in play will proof the pudding or not.
IrishMailey David R. Graham
You could end the union grip on ed by repealing mandatory attendance law. NJ’s goes back to the 1880s but CA didn’t pass theirs until 1913. Without mandatory attendance laws, no child HAS to go to any public school.
David R. Graham to IrishMailey
My experience with homeschooling in WA — too much to relate — seconds your approach. Mann introduced the mandatory aspect, per the Prussian model he had seen, the famous Germanic Ordnung, which other German families pushed into the famous German Ruhr industrial base. Early 19th Century Mann started that.
I think removing the mandatory aspect is where things are headed, just as fifty years ago USA colleges and universities were forced and then volunteered to remove the mandatory aspect of chapel services which had been in place on campuses for a century and more.
I forced the removal of the mandatory aspect of chapel at my alma mater in 1968, from the platform of Assistant Chaplain on an intern year from Seminary. (I have never been invited back.) Chapel continued, just not mandatory. (West Point followed suit about the same time or soon after.) Now that U is just another atheist den, but that’s OK with me. If Christianity cannot stand by volition, it ain’t Christianity. Jesus the Christ made us free for freedom, not for some new legalism.
Steve
What does it mean to “Win” a war? How do you define winning? And how do you get there from here?
Back in the 1970s the Army Infantry School taught that to win you had to defeat the enemy military and eliminate the enemy’s will to resist.
The US Army and USMC are pretty daggone good at defeating enemy military forces, but haven’t eliminated an enemy’s will to resist since World War Two. Maybe Korea if you only count the DPRK and NKPA and not the ChiComs and PLA.
So how did we eliminate the will to resist in Germany, Japan and Italy? By bombing their cities into rubble, shelling the towns and villages into rubble, and killing between five and ten percent of the population while doing so.
Do they teach that at Infantry School, Command and Staff College or War College anymore? I don’t know. I retired in 1994.
David R. Graham to Steve
Winning a war / disabusing an aggressor of their will to aggress is defined, classically, as compelling their top leaders to sign a Declaration of Unconditional Surrender.
I offer this as expository conceptuality relative to these times:
Principle I
The United States have no interest in the domestic affairs of other countries and expect other countries to reciprocate by having no interest in our domestic affairs. The United States have interest in the lines of communication running between The United States and all other countries and expect all other countries to bear fairly the burden of keeping those lines open, safe, reliable, fair, and clean.
Principle II
The United States welcome alliance with our brother nations India and Russia for enforcement, from their perspective, of the ground of statecraft set forth in Principle I and urge Japan and Egypt to join us for that endeavor and commitment.
Principle III
An order to deploy which lacks or frustrates intent to compel a target to sign a Declaration of Unconditional Surrender is an unlawful order by the Rules of Just War, the Conventions of War, Common Sense, and the Spirit of America.
Horrors generated by neither teaching nor abiding these principles are so inescapably pressing now that one expects schools civilian and military to return to them with some alacrity. CIA-UniParty Junta, especially the females, are stripping the U.S. Army of roles other than base security for Navy and Air Force and removing U.S. Army from the Pacific. Multi-Domain Joint Force indeed! Everyone now is aware that CIA-clad Biden Junta, who they were told would be one thing, have plans other than protecting Americans’ personal freedom and national sovereignty.
Steve to David R. Graham
An official surrender does impress on the minds of the vanquished that they have lost the war and the will to resist. I’m sure that folks would argue as to whether such a surrender is the chicken or the egg.
David R. Graham to Steve
Elaborating a bit: If one intends to nation-build, the record — e.g., MacArthur, Japan — shows starting with a declaration of unconditional surrender by the prior nation’s top leadership is a prius. Love and respect for the defeated enemy is equally mandatory. Nation-building is a human art, a leadership art, not a technology or technocratic expertise, although that too is useful. MacArthur restored Japanese agricultural and industrial production, but more importantly, the Japanese knew that he knew them and loved them and made gentle their occupation by foreign troops. Without morale, the desire to wake in the morning and go to work, neither agriculture nor industry nor any other useful pursuit happens.
Teachers’ virtues are reflected in their pupils; their faith inspires the young. Whether people waste their lives and ruin the lives of others by their barren pursuits or whether people lead happy lives promoting the happiness of others – the answer lies in the hands of teachers. A life without character is as barren as a temple without a lamp, a coin that is counterfeit, and a kite that has a broken string. A teacher who instructs pupils with his eye fixed on his salary, and a pupil who learns with his eye fixed on a job are both missing their vocation. The teacher has to help the pupil unfold and manifest the skills and qualities inherent in him and encourage him to rise to the fullest height he is capable of. The Divine is the core in both teacher and pupil. The educational process is to increase awareness of this truth and increase the utilisation of this latent power.