Localists vs. Globalist Oligarchs

Fabulous short video on industrial ag vs local food from the amazing team @localfutures_ https://t.co/YuSGyVdNkQ

— Samuel Alexander (@thedownshifters) June 1, 2021

Must-watch on corporate capture of the United Nations!

Thank you to @TessaMakesLove for this interview with a former UN employee calling out the UN/WEF strategic partnership agreement to deliver the #GlobalGoals/#SDGs as part of the #GreatReset. https://t.co/VZTigd4wvT

— Wild And Free🌱 (@frackfree_eu) May 30, 2021

Surprising no-one, a Cambridge study shows that the more connected your society is to the global economy the more at risk you are in virtually everything from water shortages to pandemics. Small really is beautiful. https://t.co/Q04A8F3r5l

— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) June 1, 2021

"Carrie Richards said her methods stem from what she learned at the Savory Institute, a non-profit that seeks to teach farmers and other members of the agriculture industry about sustainability, food security and climate change."https://t.co/x08b7A9hDc

— Savory Institute (@SavoryInstitute) May 31, 2021

Things We Didn't Learn at Uni

This is an important article. The history of hard decisions, conquest and defeat, real heroes and real villains should never be pushed away. https://t.co/Qc3RCQRhkL

— Tim Wood 🏴‍☠️ (@TimOnPoint) February 9, 2021

Apologists for Sherman (and Lincoln)?

Increasingly, Sherman’s biographers have moved to absolve him of any connection to modern theories of war. From the print edition:https://t.co/pOGn9QOjKN

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) February 4, 2021

Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All is Lost by Michael Walsh

NEW from Bradley Anderson: A new book takes stock of history's last stands - and draws questions about Americans' will to defend their nation today. https://t.co/lZ7y7kzMH9

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) January 16, 2021

MacMillan

Gammas and nice Churchians like Dreher won't understand this.

Has the Character of Warfare Changed?

Mike Fowler claims the character of warfare has changed. Do you agree? https://t.co/6N2BxBzZ3c

— Irregular Warfare Podcast (@IrregWarfare) October 27, 2020

This part of war hasn't changed:

Part three of a three-part series by Brandon Webb about friendship, loss and the journey of moving on while honoring the memory of the fallen. https://t.co/OTXJkijVS9

— SOFREP (@sofrepofficial) October 26, 2020

Jack Carr Recommends

I get a lot of requests for reading recommendations, so I’ve created a new Instagram account for those looking for book specific content and information. Last October’s selections below. https://t.co/QBufRjyGqo pic.twitter.com/qb1JOyG01M

— Jack Carr (@JackCarrUSA) October 26, 2020

From last year:

Pope Francis on War

Pope Francis calls out the language of war. He speaks against “war” as a solution. In this, he echoes many prior popes – via @josephecapizzi https://t.co/KRMhQztgL1

— Providence (@ProvMagazine) October 16, 2020

Modern warfare is a problem because of scale. The scale problem initiates in the state; the state is the problem that needs to be fixed.

Some Might Interpret This as Advising Absolute Pacifism

But the context is not provided, and he is not present on earth to clarify. It is the case that one cannot wage war on evil directly nor eradicate directly, as one cannot coerce the will. One can only prevent another from committing grave evil or harm. But this charitable reading of the saint's words is probably not what he meant.

"Don't wage war on evil directly, but love Christ and His light, and evil will then retreat." +St. Porphyrios pic.twitter.com/6QNHMsRoh6

— Saint Porphyrios (@saintporphyrios) September 20, 2020

Military Innovators

Anyone who would be a statesman or a leader must be familiar with the innovators and the synthesizers, Sun Tzu, van Creveld, etc., and with military history.

A lesson in why we must continue to prize the eccentric because with them comes genuine innovation - and this is true in warfare just as it is in all the other walks of life - it’s as if odd habits help create new strategy https://t.co/xF9HIMg5n3

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) August 22, 2020

Related:

What Sort of Maneuver Warfare Is This?

DARPA Tiles Together a Vision of Mosaic Warfare
Banking on cost-effective complexity to overwhelm adversaries

Mosaic Warfare: Small and Scalable are Beautiful by Benjamin Jensen and John Paschkewitz

Mosaic Warfare by David A. Deptula USAF (Ret.) and Heather Penney

When the Jet Age is Over?

Of Course This Was Written by a Man with a Woman's Name

He doesn't understand that dialogue has been destroyed because we are no longer one people. There are too many conflicting non-negotiables. "Can't we all just get along?"

She is right in principle that the Federal Government should exercise its authority only in those areas designated by the Constitution. But who is going to restrain the Federal Government, especially the judiciary, from interfering with states that want to preserve their culture and traditions?

Social Issues Are Destroying American Politics by Addison Del Mastro
The next president should call a temporary culture war cool-down.

If that Global Ethic is not Christianity...

This is the opposite of Realism.



Following the lead of the patriarch...
Pope Francis and the Pacifist Jesus by Andrew Latham

William Lind's Way of War

AmConMag trying to maintain its appeal and relevance to paleocons? (Not sure if Mr. Lind is still associated with the magazine as a writer/columnist.)

T. Beale on that "Epic Battle" in Game of Thrones

The Military Geniuses at File 770, which is a follow-up to The inanity of Pink SF/F.

Beale also has another interview with Stefan Molyneux:


(podcast on itunes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vm-5kQRsfm0

The Depiction of Warfare in Star Wars

We should recognize that The Force Awakens is a rehash of the original trilogy, compounding the lack of creativity with the destruction of a third "imperial" weapon of mass destruction.

In the prequels, the warfare is worse than 2GW -- it's more like 1GW, with two massed armies clashing on the battlefield under the appearance of combined arms. It's a battle or mass warfare you'd see in a comic book or a RTS computer game, not in the real world -- men and machines rushing into one another on the battlefield. Is it more dramatic (and easier for visual story-telling)? Or does it betray the lack of a military background of the "artists" behind the product? One could say the same about the space battles in the prequels and the original trilogy -- ships engaging one another like 18th century ships of sail. (Indeed, the instruction for game play for the board games revealed tactics comparable to that era, all the way to the first World War.) Yes, there are small fighter craft thrown in the mix, but their ability to damage the larger spaceships seems inconsistent. Apparently no one in the Star Wars universe has discovered the use of nuclear weapons on the battlefield. (Unless the artists wish to claim that force fields and such are sufficient protection against nuclear weapons -- space fantasy, not science fiction.)

I wish someone more familiar with warfare would write about this.

Roman Legions

Sebastian Junger on PTSD

How PTSD Became a Problem Far Beyond the Battlefield

Any discussion of PTSD and its associated sense of alienation in society must address the fact that many soldiers find themselves missing the war after it’s over. That troubling fact can be found in written accounts from war after war, country after country, century after century. Awkward as it is to say, part of the trauma of war seems to be giving it up. There are ancient human behaviors in war—loyalty, inter-reliance, cooperation—that typify good soldiering and can’t be easily found in modern society. This can produce a kind of nostalgia for the hard times that even civilians are susceptible to: after World War II, many Londoners claimed to miss the communal underground living that characterized life during the Blitz (despite the fact that more than 40,000 civilians lost their lives). And the war that is missed doesn’t even have to be a shooting war: “I am a survivor of the AIDS epidemic,” a man wrote on the comment board of an online talk I gave about war. “Now that AIDS is no longer a death sentence, I must admit that I miss those days of extreme brotherhood … which led to deep emotions and understandings that are above anything I have felt since the plague years.”

What all these people seem to miss isn’t danger or loss, per se, but the closeness and cooperation that danger and loss often engender. Humans evolved to survive in extremely harsh environments, and our capacity for cooperation and sharing clearly helped us do that. Structurally, a band of hunter-gatherers and a platoon in combat are almost exactly the same: in each case, the group numbers between 30 and 50 individuals, they sleep in a common area, they conduct patrols, they are completely reliant on one another for support, comfort, and defense, and they share a group identity that most would risk their lives for. Personal interest is subsumed into group interest because personal survival is not possible without group survival. From an evolutionary perspective, it’s not at all surprising that many soldiers respond to combat in positive ways and miss it when it’s gone.

Is the Use of Force Against ISIS a Good Option?

One Catholic seems to think so: Recollections and Insights of an Iraqi Christian by Luma Simms

1. Is it permissible to command citizens to fight for the relief of another country from tyranny or invaders?
2. Even if the citizens agree to this, what is the moral justification for "intervention"? (Love of neighbor? Fostering the international common good? It would not be any sort of sovereign authority, transferred from the other country.)
3. Those who are saved by outsiders owe something to those outsiders; would it be wrong to force them to repay their debt? (At least with respect to providing for the families of outsider benefactors who die for them.)

Bill Lind's Recommendations

A Canon for the Officer Corps