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

Countrymen,

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CH (LTC) John L. Kallerson, 2013-14 IWP US Army War College Fellow, has recently released a paper he completed during his fellowship at the Institute: “National Strategy for Religious Leader Engagements: Interagency Challenges Supporting Combatant Commands.”

In this paper, CH Kallerson discusses the new national policies and strategies that will require the Combatant Commands (COCOMs) to address future interagency challenges for the strategic engagement of foreign religious leaders. He further deliberates on the Army’s new opportunity for strategic, interagency chaplain integration in conflict mitigation to positively influence worldwide missions within the new national strategy.

Read it.  31 pages.  CH Kallerson addresses and seeks to exploit an opening backed into, ignorantly as usual, by the criminal conspiracy masquerading as the Executive Branch of the United States of America.

CH Kallerson’s recommendations mirror, expand and elaborate observations and recommendations long put forward by others, including theologians (and here).

The terms religious leaders and faith communities are smug, fatuous, condescending and politically divisive, by design, but CH Kallerson is in a chain of command heavy with that sort of personality so cut him some slack.  He is walking a career/political minefield with great courage, much as that minefield should not be his lot in life to walk.

What CH Kallerson says is so blindingly obvious, right from the start — going on two millennia! — that his having to tip-toe around it to say it indicts and convicts, at once, CH Kallerson’s chain of command for smugness, ignorance, obstinance, incontinence, arrogance, hubris and poltroonery.

Update 1: An American Renaissance.

Update 2: On 27 January 2015, Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis addressed the United States Senate Armed Services Committee on the subject A New American Grand Strategy.  At Hoover Institution, who published an adapted version of General Mattis’ address, I commented — with edits here — as follows:

Not that it matters, but, I both appreciate and despond over General Mattis’ address here. Appreciate because (1) as a genuine warrior he says what he sees and eloquently and (2) his heart is unalloyed courage and compassion. Despond because (1) his address reflects lack of situational awareness — half his auditors at least regard the nation state, including USA, as obsolete and perishing — and (2) his address, although latterly specifying or implying serious tactical weaknesses of current operations, transits the periphery of his title: grand national strategy.

It is rare for a military leader to grasp and execute the several strands — principally diplomatic, economic and military, but others as well — of grand national strategy sufficiently to create a rational grand national strategic *goal* that is also inspirational. It is rare for anyone to be able to do that. General David Petraeus has that ability, which is why the Anti-American, Globalist-partisan US Justice [so-called] Department is persecuting/prosecuting him. Asking Congress or a bureaucracy to develop that ability and execute with it compares with asking a herd of cats to organize an expedition to summit Annapurna. Distilling and serving a happy grand national strategic *goal* is a personal, leadership thing few can do, but some definitely can and do accomplish. Their thoughts merit discovery and attendance.

The cynosure of a nation is not her grand national strategy. It is her grand national strategic *goal.* Given what we see now, project and anticipate — always expecting the unexpected, as General Mattis mentions, thankfully, in his address — where and what do we want to be as a nation three, five, ten, etc. years hence? What is our goal? What do we really, truly — as a nation — want for and of ourself to be, to do, to think? What is our inner necessity as a nation? What are we on this earth to accomplish as a national presence? And why do members of Congress not live in the states from which they were selected for office?

Related: On 04 March 2015  Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis wrote for Hoover Institution under title Using Military Force Against ISIS.  I commented:

I am content that GEN (Ret.) Mattis’ thinking, clear and compelling, be expressed in public.  Thank you, General!  Our countrymen are working their way towards how they will think and what they will do when they are quit of the hag riding their back.  And they will be that.  This exercise in preparation for the restoration of national sovereignty and wealth flowing from national moral and intellectual strength is what should be happening and what is happening.  I am content.

Update 3: Belfast Pastor Faces Prison For Grossly Offending Islam.