Andrei Martyanov writes:
It is not just about manufacturing capacity — in theory the US may build, in the next 10+ years, some facilities to increase production of 155-mm shells or drones. But it will not be able to match industrial capacity of Russia in this respect, even with theoretical addition of future, if any, European capacity. The issue here is not just quantity — the target impossible to reach due to utter destruction of US manufacturing base and an extremely complex supply chains for military production. This all is just the tip of the iceberg. The main body of the iceberg is a complete catastrophe that the US military doctrinal and, as a result, procurement development is.
I spoke about it for years — some gaps, such as in air defense or missilery the US will not be able to close, because as I type this, this gap continues to grow. It is measured not in years but in generations. This is, as an example, the result of misguided and illiterate approach to air defense based on … air power. You have to literally undo the whole thing, and this requires not just building some facilities, but a complete rethinking of America’s defense or, rather, offense philosophy which doesn’t work. It never did. This is impossible in the present state of the American geopolitical thought without rethinking the United States as it perceived itself in the last hundred years. The US has no courage, intellect and will to do so because it leads to a destruction of America’s mythology.
So, the US is stuck. So, it is good that John Mearsheimer understands parts of it, but he doesn’t understand the heart of the matter. After the US strategically and operationally planned VSU’s counteroffensive, the question of the competence of the US military establishment arose
and was answered — it is incompetent! It will take a generation or two to even teach those who are currently in the plebe years in US service academies to think properly and within the framework of America’s REAL military and industrial capability. This REAL capability has nothing in common with the US halcyon years of WW II and after and it is not coming back. Russia will not allow the US to unleash the war in Europe while thinking that the US can sit this one out again behind the ocean. Doesn’t work like this anymore, especially with the construction tempo of Russia Navy’s subs such as 3M22 Zircon carriers Yasen-class subs and frigates which already have Zircons deployed. These are technologies the US simply doesn’t have and are nowhere near of getting them. China can rely on them, and much more from Russia in case of the US deciding to commit suicide, the US cannot.
It is grim picture of corruption, financial and, most importantly, intellectual within the US military and foreign policy establishment, and what John Mearsheimer fails to understand–these are not just some pieces of hardware whose utility the US suddenly recognized. Nope, the REAL experience of SMO is way more than technological, it is above all operational and strategic, which made Russia’s General Staff a well-oiled machine which merely uses 404 as a trap and a junkyard for NATO’s military capacity, because Russia fights not Ukraine, she fights NATO, and NATO, and the US, are in panic. In the end, Washington cannot do strategy, it has no real strategists–only whiteboard doctrine mongers, who will fail again to learn proper lessons, because one has to have a proper tool kit. The US doesn’t have one. Good luck containing China.
Thus years-long efforts by others and I to restore professional military curriculum, cognizant of modern war conditions, to our US Service Academies and real strategic and operational art and calculation capacity and capability at US BN and up command and staff levels.
The prius of all that, actually, is to restore professional competencies to theological and clerical schools.
Psych-Psy and everything else Judeo-Humanist (Zionist) and so-called Judeo-Christian (Zionist) has to be thrown out of the seminaries and monasteries.
Aleksander Svechin: Strategy
Architectures of US military and theological doctrine must be restored and created. These must ground in the realities of US geo-position, native temperament, composite index of national capabilities, spiritual correlations, and cultural multiplicity.
US Americans are accustomed to having plans. We all have plans. Most of them come to disappointment because US Americans, most of them anyway, despise the very architectures of epistemology and doctrine through which plans must be run if they are to produce a desired result.
Russians are culturally proficient at architectures and plans. In rejecting the values of the West, as they have been doing since the early 2000s, Russians reject the rejection of architecture which left the West unable even to protect themselves from myriad louses.
Architecture correlates, in classical philosophy, with structure while plans correlate with energy, or, form and function, respectively, or, masculinity and femininity, respectively.
Euro-Americans groan under the chaos of rampant plans (energy) not canalized by pleasing, productive architecture (structure). Note how many Euro-American organizations, GOs and NGOs, are run unpleasingly, even disastrously, by feminists. Zionists are feminists, energy without architecture. Restorations of architectural integrity in all matters human are an inner necessity of humans everywhere right now. Each of us has it within ourselves to do that within our own budget and space on the planet.
Some points made by Colonel Trukhan:
– Rail network being restored on the Azov sea coast
– No logistical issues of RUAF
– Big arrow offensive – in 2023 there was no task for carrying out large offensives
– Task is to attract AFU manpower and equipment close to the line and destroy them
– Capturing cities is the most complex type of warfare – two approaches: either like Israel, destroy the city completely, or blockade and starve it out (could take up to 9 months)
– Capturing Kiev in 3 days was never the goal, the goal was to pin AFU in place north of Kiev to allow time to take SE Ukraine area including Mariupol and land bridge
– This prevented and complicated transfer of AFU reserves to the direction of main operations
– NATO military planners’ believing Russia isn’t capable of anything is beneficial to Russia, as NATO plans operations based on those assumptions
– RUAF never lost operational initiative despite some tactical complexities
– After taking Azov Sea coast, the presence of RUAF around Kiev and Chernigov lost its purpose
– NATO planned the AFU offensive of 2023 based on wrong conclusions in 2022
– This erronous planning led to several hundred thousand AFU losses (KIA+WIA) and destruction of all western trained AFU formations
– Ukraine made even no tactical gains during their offensive
– Ukraine was reformed to use NATO air-land battle doctrine, according to which ground troops are merely auxiliary place holders, and the real attack is done with missiles from the air (but for obvious reasons this never happened)
– NATO doctrine is to look for weak spots in the line to exploit, in Zaporozhye they were unlucky, because there were no weak spots, but multiple overlapping defensive lines
– AFU didn’t pass first tactical defense line, but got stuck in it
– In the area of breakthrough, initial losses should be ignored in order to continue the breakthrough and follow-up expansion of the attack – this was not done which led to subsequent large losses on the initial line and the attack stalling
– NATO air-land battle doctrine would require at least 500 aircraft launching 1500 missiles in the breakthrough area or line
– Such forces are unavailable for NATO now
– Additionally, the offensive should have been followed by a mass landing of marines and paratroopers, which were not available in terms of delivery vehicles or special forces themselves
– Coup was the only chance for NATO, which failed
– Breaking through 1km of line requires 100 tanks to be effective
– In order to break through 3 lines, 300 tanks are required
– Massive artillery strikes are needed both on the front and back of the lines in preparation of the attack and the range to enable it
– Russia can send new tanks on the ground within days, in contrast to NATO to taking several weeks
– NATO tanks must be sent back to Poland to repair anything other than trivial damage
– Capable tank repair plants in Ukraine are often air striked
– AFU cannot perform simple repairs on equipment near the front line, which is also a result of cultural change and philosophy from USSR
– Most radars of AFU air defense were destroyed in Spring 2022, after that the air defense system became sporadic
– Anti-air missiles in Ukraine weren’t maintained in post-1991 Ukraine
– S-300 missiles should be maintained or rebuilt every 10 years
– AFU mistake is to place air defense systems inside cities – the old rockets can be unpredictable, when accelerating, if they hit a building, the building will be destroyed
– The main successes of AFU air defense systems are strikes against first echelon recon and dummy missiles
– After which the AD system is struck by anti-air missiles
– Ukraine was forced to use very old S-125 systems, whose missiles are old and can’t handle maneuvers
– S-125 may work on some slow cruise missiles and drones which they were designed to hit, but RUAF is now utilizing supersonic missiles nearly as a standard
– S-125 second stage is based on gunpowder acceleration, uneven combustion inevitably leading to them flying unpredictably into buildings
– Not a single Kinzhal has been shot down with Patriot PAC systems
– Kinzhals have successfully destroyed underground bunkers including with NATO officers in them
– Kinzhal uses an extremely inconvenient trajectory for any air defense system, theoretically only a second covering battery could have a chance but even then technical characteristics make the chance slim
– The guided FAB bombs guidance kits were first used in Syria, then perfected and now used in Ukraine
– Russia develops new types of gliding bombs
LTC (R) Karen Kwiatkowski. Neocons love chaos and think everybody else is afraid of TheUSofA since 1945. Neocons (Zionists) do not care about human life or environmental health. They think the world trembles in fear of the US military. The world doesn’t. Hasn’t for some time and certainly does not today. We are led by people who believe in illusions, their own propaganda.
US military is corporate, corporatized. It hasn’t been a war-fighting organization for a very long time. AFPAK pull out happened abruptly without proper planning because corporate leadership in the Pentagon refused believe that they were going to get out. They just refused to do the planning. Would not believe that after 20 years they would suddenly leave. Corporate mentality prevents one from defensive ability and offensive as well
70 + years of US hitting anywhere, anyone in MENA over oil, gold standard, dollar standard — money, power — has been unifying for everyone else. Everyone sees it done to themselves or to their neighbors, and this pushes them together. They all see it now. US under Zionists are arrogant, mindless, remorseless bullies. US ability to influence or gain sympathy declines proportionally with everyone else’s assessment of what The USofA under Zionists really care about and do.
Architecture Of Spiritual Operations
Pietistical
All man’s religions provide aspirants to Divine Life with repetitive activities which, long experience validates, take one Godward. Really, the religions are just these repetitive activities that have soteriological puissance.
The most fundamental of these, in each of the religions, is the liturgy of worship and especially its liturgy of corporate worship. The Greek word liturgia means work in the sense of productive activity which has a beneficial effect.
Religions used by very many aspirants usually have several liturgies of worship. These answer differences in taste and background among the aspirants. All liturgies have the same goal, however, the same use: to bring the aspirant Godward. The liturgies of the religions, and sub-practices within them, are medicaments (words and music) and rehab therapy (physical acts) to speed recovery from spiritual ailments.
Theological
An aspirant who delves into the meanings and effects of liturgical words, sounds, and actions enters upon theological study and rumination. This is a field of knowledge, not unlike mathematics and chemistry, which has internal and ultimately ineffable elegance like unto its subject. Theology is in fact The Queen of the Sciences (Regina Scientiarum). The King of the Sciences is God Himself.
Architecture Of Military Operations
Defense
From a 2014 U.S. Army
Field Manual:
The objective is to defeat an enemy’s armed forces, destroy an enemy’s war-making capacity, or seize or retain territory to force a change in an enemy’s government or policies.
No, the objective is to compel an enemy to do one’s will. The means to do that is, kill the enemy.
And what is an enemy? An enemy is one — person, group, or nation — laboring to deny one one’s sovereign freedom. As things go, this can even be oneself.
There is no real — objective — distinction between regular and irregular warfare. Both types or styles of warfare aim to compel an enemy to do one’s will. The words represent different means to the same end, that is all.
Irregular warfare is really just advanced ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance). And if irregular war-fighting formations are not integrated coherently with regular war war-fighting formations, war-fighting altogether is a waste of time, money, energy, and life. Special Operations Forces (SOF), irregular warfighting formations, cannot be useful outside regular operations of The Joint Force.
Overall, contemporary US military conceptuality in matters of statecraft excludes what an enemy is thinking and why. Contemporary diplomatic and financial conceptuality in matters of statecraft even more so. This overlook of critical data, salient factors — what the enemy has, thinks, and is doing — persists as if by an invisible, unexamined Olympian Mandate. Planning occurs for this and that as if the enemy has no vote, nor bystanders either. But they all have a vote, and all the time they have that and are voting.
Moreover, Markov chains escape the attention of The US American Foreign Policy Establishment. They are glued up to Zionism, marching behind the guidon, Neocon.
In modern usage, the phrase national security has no content beyond what I want. Anyhow, in this world, there is no security. Only opportunity.
So much is said about U.S. Army mission in U.S. Army Field Manuals, it’s overwhelming. No one can keep all of these bright ideas in their head, much less deploy them to execute a commander’s intent. Ideas, ideas, ideas, but no specifics. Dreams, no babbling brooks with bathing birds. Theories, visions, and aspirations, but no particulars of feeling, much less orders of battle, calculations of escalation dominance, combat effectiveness, correlates of war, correlation of capabilities and means, etc. It’s all just concepts, wishes, no data-factual specifics, no clear organization of discussion of materials and missions integrated across tactical, operational, and strategic depths. That is, no serious treatments of gestalten into Tables of Organization and Equipment (TOEs).
Is anyone in the USG serious about
what they are paid to be about?
Surgical strike is a stupid concept. There is no such thing. I just had surgery. It affected my whole body, not just the incision area. Any strike on an organism is a strike on the whole of it. That’s what an organization is, a unity of forces. Thus, expect response from the organism, not the part struck. People think in a vacuum, as if the enemy is inattentive, incapable, inert, does not have a vote in whatever process occurs, even supposedly secret ones.
Look what the Houthis have accomplished!!!!! Without degrees from MIT, Harvard, General Dynamics. Or the prestige of a David Petraeus.
War-fighting — statecraft altogether — is to compel an enemy to do one’s will, one in this case meaning, as established by a nation’s political and military leaderships acting in concert or not at all.
And be damn sure you don’t designate as enemy someone you can’t stand or who isn’t doing what you want them to do. You can only designate as enemy someone who is trying to compel you to do their will rather than your own. Someone who frustrates your wishes or offends your eyes, nose, prestige, self-esteem, or pocketbook is a complication. They are not an enemy. (Actually, they are a friend, but that’s another discourse, not here.)
Enemy is a formal, objective designation with a narrow meaning. An enemy is an aggressor against one’s will to live in sovereign freedom. An enemy is one trying to subjugate one. Many US American children today have as their first and most formidable enemy one or both of their parents and / or their sibling(s).
If you aggress against someone, if you want and try to compel them to do your will instead of their own, they rightly can regard you as their enemy and will find a way to compel you to stop doing that, a way which may entail your own loss of sovereign freedom if not your annihilation altogether, depending on how stupid you want to be about your actual situation.
Regular and Irregular war are not different kinds of war. They are aspects or facets of the same kind of war, which is always and only to compel an enemy to do one’s will. Namely, BACK OFF!
Basically, a righteous nation has wherewithal — diplomatic, financial, and military force — to compel an aggressor — an enemy — to stop trying to subjugate them. The ground of that wherewithal is faith in God.
War is inherently defensive. If you think war is inherently offensive, you signal your intention to aggress against the sovereign freedom of another nation(s), the which intention is inherently unjust and unrighteous and therefore productive of your own destruction.
The best defense is not offense.
The best defense is defense.
SOF is an array of means to assist The Joint Force to do that, to repel aggression against one’s sovereign freedom by compelling an aggressor to desist from their will to aggress.
Once the aggressor has done that, one has no authority to compel diminishment of their sovereign freedom. They do not lose their divine humanity, with all of its rights and privileges, by virtue of being defeated by one in battle. One has authority to protect oneself from an enemy but not to subjugate — i.e., deny sovereign freedom to — an enemy whose will to aggress against one one has defeated. Only the truly stupid, the uncultured, seek revenge.
Re-conceptualize The U.S. Army as the core element of The U.S. Joint Force and rewrite US Code Title 10 (+) accordingly, with focus on functional elegance and structural simplicity. Then the morale forces will be going in a direction which precludes, at least awhile, an organization’s end-of-life phenomenology.
Get the morale forces going in the proper directions and organizational problems almost take care of themselves, at least are easy to see and correct, at least awhile. Think redesign. See also here and here.
This has to do with conceptual architecture.
Offense
There is a mode of defense which employs offensive TOEs. It has names, among them maneuver defense and active defense. The Russian General Staff — which is older than The USofA! — have learned to master this phase of warfare, this mode of defense. Always, offensive operations anchor in defensive ones. Conceptually and in orders of battle, offensive operations never stand on their own justification, calculations of required force, or resolution of uncertainties. Offensive battle is a phase or mode of defensive battle.
Principle I
Principle II
Principle III
By Artists M and F Graham
At Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, India
