Lastly, they are for the soul of your nation and your cause. Limits on war preserve humanity. Mercy transcends violence. After the fighting, there has to be something more. Rules of engagement and the laws of armed conflict protect you; abandoning them is dire.
There's never anything in it for the Kurds
An attempt was made
I honestly think one reason Millennials are so angry about all this is that many of us grew up during the brief period in American history where the official line was that we had won history *because* of our values, and most of us actually internalized that.
The solidarity I feel in this thread... every day is like shaking the Etch A Sketch of yesterday's efforts in risk management.
Research Methods ftw
!!!! This is what I have been griping about. SO MANY such cases
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Also, the logic of "we need the unique expertise of these places but also don't want any of that rubbing off on our service members" is uh... a choice.
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Yesssss. I can't wait to publish my in-depth report on the impacts of "reply all"
I would like to apply for whatever this qualifies me for:
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And also: what he said. 👇
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I've seen a lot of you try to very reasonably explain the realities of the military to these people, often resulting in getting called a war criminal or some shit, and god bless man because y'all have more patience than saints from what I have seen. I don't know how you guys do it.
2) are incapable of the critical thought required to comprehend a situation other than their own, in which they are able to continue their priggish posturing while risking nothing.
These people, in all their righteous and morally superior indignation, simply
1) lack the ability to listen and learn from people who have more experience/insight to understand how things actually work
And...
This whole thing has, of course, resulted in a great many people with little to no experience in NATSEC or with the military confidently spouting off about what should be/have been done by the military.
It's infuriating and exhausting.
*Can't sleep. Finish movie. Check Milsky before trying again to sleep.*
Guys, what the actual fuck is happening right now
Catch-22, of course. Heavily and arbitrarily redacted.
"Next Gen"
"Interoperability" 💀
Also would like to nominate "Integrated Fires" as an addition to your Fires entry.
And similar to the C2/3/4/5 conundrum...
Missile Defense?
Air & Missile Defense?
Integrated Air & Missile Defense?
ENHANCED Integrated Air & Missile Defense!?!
The thing that makes me itchy is that we've already been seeing the writing on the wall for MI shifting toward 12333 violations based on the rhetoric/domestic deployments. Solidifying the order of these priorities in the NSS makes that even more likely...
I keep using DoD until forced to stop, which hasn't happened yet. Half the government websites still say DoD. Even the ones that have changed to DoW are inconsistent. And it's not like the fourth estate orgs are changing their names which makes this whole thing even more dumb.
As it so often does, really comes down to the "definition of 'done'"... or lack thereof 🙃
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
Beyond the obviously terrible not-getting-paid part. Functionally things are going to start getting a lot worse. Contractors have largely been keeping the wheels turning as best they can without the decision makers and now we will start seeing more significant reductions of that workforce as well.
You know, Strategy Cheese been real fuckin quiet lately. Isn't he supposed to masterfully prioritizing GPC and countering PRC hegemony or some such?
This is the pro move tbh. Tried and true.
