Brandon
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@H_BrandonMorgan
Middle East / North Africa 🌍 🪖| @SAISHopkins ‘22 | 2021-2022 West Point @WarInstitute Fellow | Thoughts are mine alone. Likes ≠ endorse
Welcome to our 2021–22 MWI nonresident fellows! mwi.usma.edu/announcing-the…
To the "elite" @us_sams. It has become apparent through the reactions of your faculty and graduates that I have besmirched the honor of your esteemed institution. Perhaps you’d like to defend it. I’m not interested in you shielding your school with jargon and academic posturing. I’m only interested in results. You cannot tell me how effective you are when I have seen the opposite with my own two eyes. In my time in uniform, I’ve watched your graduates do two things with alarming consistency: trivialize the momentous and complicate the obvious. Some of you have suggested that I apply to SAMS. I appreciate the offer, but I must respectfully decline. Instead, I’ll extend the privilege to you—apply to my school. But let’s skip the applications and cut to the test. I’m here to drop the gauntlet. Send forth your finest champions in the most complex tactical, operational, or strategic scenario you can muster. Keep your best students and faculty on your staff. I’ll take enlisted holdovers from Leavenworth’s basic training units to puck for me. I will also take @TheBull51 as my G2. And when you lose (it’s a “when,” not an “if”), then maybe—just maybe—we can have a real discussion about outcome over process. I don’t speak your language of convoluted doctrine. You’ll be more eloquent than me, but you’ll be left asking how a prior-enlisted major with a 2.9 GPA in history, no advanced degree, in command of a digital Field Army beat you so soundly. You’ll be left wondering how a captain and a major with 80 CTC rotations between them and an insatiable lust for military knowledge scaled their skillset to the corps level and above with ease. You will not be the first to ponder this either. I aim to expose the flaws in your thinking. To shine a light on the dark corners of your PhD-enriched institution. Refuse the challenge and remain in the warm embrace of your echo chamber. You can maintain your ego, but not the honor that comes from the enhanced lethality you claim to build for our country. I will not gloat in my victory. We can have an honest conversation behind closed doors, and I will say nothing publicly. Your reputation will remain intact. You pick the scenario, offense or defense, anywhere on the face of the earth, with any formation. I do not care. I have never suffered defeat in a wargame that "counts", and that will not change with you. I take my losses in training, and I train all the time. Find the TDY money to bring us there—my unit is strapped for cash at the moment. Or, if you make it worth my while, maybe I’ll crack open my piggy bank. I do not do this for clicks. I yearn for the day when I can leave this platform behind and return to a world where I feel the warmth of the sun on my face, the smell of cordite in the air, and the violent harmony of machine guns carving their beaten zone with aggressive, unrelenting fire. I do this because I spent years trying to fix the Army from the inside—writing enough white papers to fill the Library of Congress. It has done nothing. End State: Make the Military More Lethal. After all, what do you have to fear? Some of your faculty already labeled me as “irrelevant.” Prove it. ***To my followers, share this so they can't ignore it please***
Gen. Smith: “The advantage lies with us because our last combat was captured on somebody’s iPhone 14... The Chinese’ last combat was captured on oil and canvas, and they should not forget that... I would not undersell the value that our combat experience brings to this fight.”
