InfantryDort

Aggressive reminder: The sole purpose of our military is to close with and destroy the enemies of the of the United States. Deterring potential adversaries by our demonstrated ability to accomplish this violently.

It was only maybe 3 months after leaving my beloved Corps that I discovered as a result of taking courses in college that Credentalism was the thing I had been fighting my entire time in the USMC. It was what had begun to destroy my beloved Corps, and it was WELL on it's way to destroying my nation And even now... so few of you really get it

“Add three acronyms, a fellowship, and a diversity initiative. That should buy us six more months.”

The rank and file military are beginning to connect the dots between credentialism and institutional failure. Quick, deploy another podcast where four ‘experts’ explain why competence is problematic and why “winning” is an outdated metric.

@art_pleb That’s the question.

@infantrydort Sure. We agree. Now why would anyone in power, who by definition benefits from this, agree to it?

The Framers never meant for “politician” to be a profession. 250 years later, we should listen to them. Americans would do well to back away and retrain their senses to what should be normal and healthy vs what is not. It was inconceivable to people like Washington that someone would spend a human life in the cesspool that is that arena. A political life is one of the lowest forms of the human condition. A battlefield, meant to be fought over, survived, and won. But how much victory is enough? Or worse, how much defeat is enough? Before it dulls the senses and corrupts the soul. Until the very people whose eyes you once gazed into begin seeming like demons. For some reason we remain intrigued by power. But we would all do well to remember that a politician with 20, 30, 40, 50 years of “service” should not be seen as honorable. It should be seen for exactly what it is. And exactly how the Founding Fathers would have seen it: An abomination.

@Aegispsych99714 What’s in edibles these days?

@infantrydort Well honestly, being a soldier you probably don't have a freakin clue. You did what you were told. War is something you definitely have no knowledge or understanding of. Maybe some combat but definitely not war

I am not interested in taking unsolicited advice on war from those who’ve never worn the uniform. Some of us signed up to fight wars. You just admire them. The value of your opinion on war, to me, is somewhere below that of a JAG and above that of a 711 cashier.

@Wolfen_Moon2 I do 😂

@infantrydort You get THE most retarded bots of anyone, I swear

Admitting that people staying in power for an entire human life guarantees corruption. It guarantees revolution. History tells us this. With 100% accuracy. So me, as an officer, a Soldier, an American, should be OK pointing this out. Because it’s us that have to bleed on the field. And for something preventable no less. Shrugging one’s shoulders and saying “it is what it is” is how you get to the guillotine in Paris. No thanks. We very likely could be headed there anyway because let’s face it, we always do. But at least I can say I said something on X one May morning in 2026 to let the world know that I know many will die if a course correction doesn’t happen. Nobody is meant to be in power for half a century.

I don’t like anything about the situation. It consumes everything, demands attention, and divides us. There’s no way to change it except engaging with it. I also get that thinking about politics in this way is anathema to the officer corps. I’ve been out of uniform a while and don’t have to worry about that.

@art_pleb Might be the most insane thing I’ve read today which is weird because I’ve already read like 5 insane things. The accusation of naivety is projection. Status quo for unlimited time in power is an objectively insane take but you do you.

This is naive, a loser’s mentality, and unbecoming the pragmatism necessary for an officer Once sovereignty is militarily established, politics is everything else. It is how we decide who gets resources, who has them confiscated. Who lives, who dies. It’s fundamental to the human condition and underpinned by ruthless state violence. We can pine for what the founders built, but we have to recognize it’s long gone. The only way forward to something like that again is to engage in politics and win.

Whoa whoa whoa. I’m not against credentials. I’m against THEIR credentials. I elevate the warrior-philosopher and diminish the hack with a degree who could never bother wearing a uniform yet tells me how to do my job. Weird hill to die on this morning for you. Have fun.

ISIS terrorists thought hiding away in remote parts of Africa would help them evade justice. They were wrong. Those who hurt Americans, plan to hurt Americans, or concoct despicable plots to harm innocent Christians, the United States of America will find you and kill you.

@BDHerzinger @infantrydort 🤣👇

@BDHerzinger I’ve gotta be honest, if your worldview can only survive behind a diploma, it probably wasn’t wisdom to begin with.

I’ve got to be honest, if you’re not a war college grad I really don’t think your opinion about it matters.

@RealCynicalFox @RealUCBfosho The point of my post is that one shouldn’t need a historian to outsource that kind of knowledge. You. The one calling in the ordnance executing the plan. You should be the historian.

Unironically, yes. That picture is from Second Fallujah, US casualties: 95 KIA / 560 WIA. The serious military history student looks at that and calls it a debacle. There's no reason to send your people into that mess. Instead, you do what American GI's did in 1944-45 when entering Germany. Tell the town to surrender, any forces inside come out and stack arms and be taken prisoner. If they refuse and you don't charge in, you call in long range fires until they change their mind. If they surrender under false pretenses, you back off and call in long range fires until there's nothing left. That's the method that history tells us works, minimizes US losses, and sends a message to every other town you need to take.

They sure helped a ton in GWOT. Oh wait, they didn’t. I’m not stopping an OPORD to ask for the historian. If you are a serious warrior then YOU are the damn historian. Try and keep up sport.

@WesternLensman Just replace the world “rebuilding” with “continue tearing down” and what he’s saying will all make perfect sense.

James Comey signals to FBI personnel that he has "great confidence in" at the bureau to wait out the Trump administration: "I'm urging them, hang on two and a half years, and then we can rebuild these institutions."

@Ami_Marisol @CallMeCookie Wow

@CallMeCookie @infantrydort hmmm

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz be like

@Ami_Marisol @Red1Bangarang Ur mom's a gun

@Red1Bangarang @infantrydort i was talking to my gun

@OfAthenry @HunterStires

@HunterStires @infantrydort If we can shove you into a grade school locker and close the door, the rules state that you need to STFU when we tell you to STFU, Hunter.

There’s a lot of drama around Black Jack brigade being ordered back to the U.S. from Europe. I was in that unit on that same mission from 2019-2020. We deployed, did training there, went to a CTC. I’ll be honest, it was the most fun I’ve probably had in the Army. But after the initial training and the CTC rotation, we didn’t do much. Played a lot of softball. BBQs. PT. Some drinking. Mostly just working on keeping people out of trouble. It was kind of like being back at Fort Hood, but in Germany. I suppose one could argue that the simple act of us being there made all the difference. I don’t know. That was above my level. But I couldn’t help but think then, as I do now, that there are better ways to keep one’s adversaries at bay. To say nothing of the fact that I do believe we have been a crutch to Europe for too long. Everyone seems to forget that Europe as a whole, dwarfs the GDP of Russia. A country who is barely richer than Italy. You accomplish nothing providing security for people who refuse to do it themselves. What are we supposed to do? Defend them forever? Permanently? What has it gotten us? Europe, by all accounts, has taken advantage of our security blanket and prioritized making a socialist hellscape. A socialist hellscape that has become their chief export. So the very act of remaining there in force is enabling the destruction of the western world. Our relationship with those people DEMANDS revisiting in my view. Because whatever good will we generated after the end of the Second World War has dried up. The free flow of money from us to them has also dried up. It’s very telling how others treat you when you stop doing things for them. This isn’t mutual respect. It’s been little more than bribery. And I’m all for keeping our Armored brigades right here, building readiness. And not running them into the ground for little gain. There is an age old adage that says you must help yourself before you can help others. Prudence demands that for our country right now. America first. America always.