Thanks for that. It helps clarify things immensely. It all sounds like an iteration of FROM HERE TO ETERNITY scripted by accountants, with purely financial exploitation of those at the bottom front and centre. A post-industrial parody of military service as a form of late feudal enlistment of serfs so common in Central and Eastern Euro…
Thanks for that. It helps clarify things immensely. It all sounds like an iteration of FROM HERE TO ETERNITY scripted by accountants, with purely financial exploitation of those at the bottom front and centre. A post-industrial parody of military service as a form of late feudal enlistment of serfs so common in Central and Eastern Europe.
As I understand it, State is just the combination PR/Potemkin village for the IC, with visible crazies (neocons and neoliberals) fronting for the alpha villains. The ostensible authors of the foreign policies take the credit, but they get their instructions from planning units that prefer discretion. Much of the apparatus of policy making is pure theatre for the lost souls who find Washington fascinating.
I once read an article that claimed to utilise a source placed in a fairly highly level within the IC. The tone of the source's comments re the Pentagon leadership were quite contemptuous, not least because the generals were paid so very poorly compared to the senior executive of the private sector. I got the impression that the IC were super-corporate in worldview. The very embodiment of white collar privilege as it were.
I have heard this as well. Really, they start weeding them out beyond Captain.
I read two incidents from Desert Storm that involved warrior-captains responding to circumstances in ways that would have upset the larger narrative. One captain found a trusted Ba'athist officer, took all his insignia off, negotiated a complete stand-down of all regime loyalists for the whole city, and put him in a subordinate role reassuring his people and communicating their concerns to him. Saved dozens of Iraqis and his own soldiers' lives. Violated anti-Ba'athist directive. Same sort of thing tripped Patton up--we're getting rid of the only competent patriotic people.
They will have neither competence nor Patriotism, nor courage moral or physical.
Truth is they who get promoted game and work the system, and of the last generation this century more and more avoided combat as controversial and dangerous to one’s career.
“This isn’t the Hill to Die on”.
They never find that Hill, and IRL never see it. It is exactly Clown World, total reversal of values.
You see the same Uvalde Freeze don’t do anything, just freeze in the military and its grown to epidemic and possibly soon pandemic levels. Its a lack of confidence in leadership that gave you Uvalde, and Military increasingly same. I mean soldiers including elite forces freezing in combat-entire units. That’s leadership, or leaderless rather. No one wants to be the next Abu Gharib, or Chauvin.
1-2 cowards on them personally: entire unit freezes (and they do) that’s leadership, or rather JAG ROE paralysis -Rules of Engagement- which constantly change.
Geographic isolation and world’s reserve currency combined with a rich, fat, and detached from reality 🇺🇸 population allow a lot of slack. We’re running out.
Thanks for that. It helps clarify things immensely. It all sounds like an iteration of FROM HERE TO ETERNITY scripted by accountants, with purely financial exploitation of those at the bottom front and centre. A post-industrial parody of military service as a form of late feudal enlistment of serfs so common in Central and Eastern Europe.
As I understand it, State is just the combination PR/Potemkin village for the IC, with visible crazies (neocons and neoliberals) fronting for the alpha villains. The ostensible authors of the foreign policies take the credit, but they get their instructions from planning units that prefer discretion. Much of the apparatus of policy making is pure theatre for the lost souls who find Washington fascinating.
I once read an article that claimed to utilise a source placed in a fairly highly level within the IC. The tone of the source's comments re the Pentagon leadership were quite contemptuous, not least because the generals were paid so very poorly compared to the senior executive of the private sector. I got the impression that the IC were super-corporate in worldview. The very embodiment of white collar privilege as it were.
Yes the IC, Finance, State Dept is where the Ivy’s concentrate power. Which would be acceptable, even desirable if they weren’t insane.
No Warrior advances past Colonel.
Instead of a field marshal's baton, the rucksacks of the ambitious are stuffed with CVs.
"No Warrior advances past Colonel."
I have heard this as well. Really, they start weeding them out beyond Captain.
I read two incidents from Desert Storm that involved warrior-captains responding to circumstances in ways that would have upset the larger narrative. One captain found a trusted Ba'athist officer, took all his insignia off, negotiated a complete stand-down of all regime loyalists for the whole city, and put him in a subordinate role reassuring his people and communicating their concerns to him. Saved dozens of Iraqis and his own soldiers' lives. Violated anti-Ba'athist directive. Same sort of thing tripped Patton up--we're getting rid of the only competent patriotic people.
They will have neither competence nor Patriotism, nor courage moral or physical.
Truth is they who get promoted game and work the system, and of the last generation this century more and more avoided combat as controversial and dangerous to one’s career.
“This isn’t the Hill to Die on”.
They never find that Hill, and IRL never see it. It is exactly Clown World, total reversal of values.
You see the same Uvalde Freeze don’t do anything, just freeze in the military and its grown to epidemic and possibly soon pandemic levels. Its a lack of confidence in leadership that gave you Uvalde, and Military increasingly same. I mean soldiers including elite forces freezing in combat-entire units. That’s leadership, or leaderless rather. No one wants to be the next Abu Gharib, or Chauvin.
1-2 cowards on them personally: entire unit freezes (and they do) that’s leadership, or rather JAG ROE paralysis -Rules of Engagement- which constantly change.
Geographic isolation and world’s reserve currency combined with a rich, fat, and detached from reality 🇺🇸 population allow a lot of slack. We’re running out.