Chris Walter

I don’t care what your politics are, what color your skin is, or who you voted for — every family has one thing in common: this pan.

War is a dialectical competition characterized by cycles of adaptions & counter-adaptions at all levels of warfare (technical, tactical etc.), shaped, among other things, by the operational environment (weather, terrain, etc.) that affects the different phases of a conflict. A common analytical mistake is to draw linear conclusions about the future trajectory & character of fighting from one particular phase, especially given that information in an ongoing war is always fragmentary & limited. Media narratives especially have a tendency to swing from gloom to euphoria, with little room for nuance in between.

One of the most incorrectly/"miscorrectly"/improperly quoted military axioms has to do with Prince Eugene's mule regarding the pitfalls of not thinking and reflecting on one's service in combat. The actual quotation comes from Frederick the Great on the Art of War (New York: Free Press, 1966), p. 47; edited and translated by Dr. Jay Luuvas. And it goes a little something like this... “A mule who has carried a pack for ten campaigns under Prince Eugene will be no better tactician for it, and it must be confessed, to the disgrace of humanity, that many men grow old in an otherwise respectable profession without making any greater progress than this mule. To follow the routine of the service, to become occupied with the care of its fodder and lodging, to march when the army marches, camp when it camps, fight when it fights--for the great majority of officers this is what is meant by having served, campaigned, grown gray in the harness. For this reason, one sees so many soldiers occupied with trifling matters and rusted by gross ignorance. Instead of soaring audaciously among the clouds, such men know only how to crawl methodically in the mire. They are never perplexed and will never know the causes of their triumphs or defeats.”

@Byrdsmanse So sorry about this. Hope you and family are as OK as you can be right now.

My father died this morning. What y'all get to know about him: he was an A-6 driver, and sent a boatload of commies to hell during Operation Linebacker.

Preach

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,

“Warfighting is not a slogan.” This video from USNA Superintendent and USMC LTG Michael Borgschulte to the Brigade is most excellent. And its message rings true for all Joint PME — at all echelons.

@BradDuplessis The emphasis on combining "arms" across domains is clear, as is an emphasis on LRPF. But do we really think just doing those well is a war winning doctrine? Seems like we have failed to address a lot...

@BradDuplessis As an interested (retired) outsider, I have been trying to understand just what MDO is really arguing is the correct warfighting approach. It has been tough (maybe just for me) to figure it out.

100%. I personally believe it’s too esoteric, but nothing in FM 3-0 even hints at decapitation. Taught this until the fall.

Preach

If your values change every time the president changes his values then quite frankly you have none. You're just a toady at that point.

If Russia and China conspired to destroy the U.S. military with a Manchurian candidate I don't think they could have picked a better choice than Hegseth.

Reading “A People's History of the United States” should be listed in the DMS-5 as self-harm.

I love LA.

@TheodoreRoosev8 @rcjparry Enjoy your life as an coward hiding behind the picture of a better man than you.

@PartTime11A @rcjparry You don’t know sh*t about me. What I now know about you is you’re incapable of rational discussion and thought. Because your side is “just” and the other side isn’t. TR would think you’re a piece of sh*t - and he’d be correct.

Where are we when we have every expectation that the admistration's most senior officials will happily lie to the American about the shooting of an American by Federal officers? This is not the America I believe in.

@TheodoreRoosev8 @rcjparry By the way - go fuck yourself . You are not a serious person.

@TheodoreRoosev8 @rcjparry If you dont see the difference, you are fundamentally unamerican. In this case what is just is obvious. But - you are very likley a frightened racist hiding on the internet behind the picture of a great man. TR would see you for what you are.

@TheodoreRoosev8 @rcjparry You see the difference, 100%. You are just an unamerican bitch with a twitter name of a man who would see right through you. Pathetic.

@PartTime11A @rcjparry You think we just got here? I listened to Mayorkas tell the American people we had a secure border for 4 years.

Liberals should own guns. Liberals should also create policy to minimize unnecessary gun deaths. These two things are compatible & responsible gun ownership is not a right-wing identity

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