InfantryDort@infantrydort
The fact that you think we envy your higher education is laughable. Mere projection.
You strike me as a measures of performance/measures of effectiveness type.
Your only measure of performance is more talking, your only measure of effectiveness is more defeat.
You taught at the height of GWOT to senior military leaders. You are, by definition, a loser. Don’t worry, I am too. Because I had to suffer under those you educated.
The difference between you and I, is I can admit it. I at least tried to fix it on the ground through the barrel of my M4.
You joke about the “spirit of victory”. Is it not the job of a war college (and all other PME) to inculcate a warrior ethos? It is. And you must.
But you can’t. Because you have no earthly idea what it means. You can see the ethos in others. You can talk about it. You can never possess it.
I don’t write on here for you. You’re already lost. I write here for the countless others watching. So they can stand up to your type. A type that still teaches in our institutions (for now).
I, and others, look forward to the crashout you and your “friends” have when the institutions you once tainted get their long overdue renovations.
You will never possess the 10th flame. That spirit that brings it all together as T. E. Lawrence described.
And you will never possess it because you’ve removed spirit from everything. Broken every aspect of war down to its cold and clinical parts. Killing the sense of wonder that drives true genius.
Distilling things down is important, but you don’t let the student put it back together with the intangible adhesive they possess and you do not. You kill it out of envy.
You are the type of “expert” Clarence Thomas recently warned us all about. It’s all good though. Because the only thing you’re an expert at now is weeping your estrogen infused jealousy onto the vitriolic pages of the Atlantic.
I’m just here to keep pointing it out.
