What a job he had. And now he learns the five domains of war: sea, land, air, space, cyber.
[HT: Bill Whittle]
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Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
All down in taken-for-granted situations
Tolling for the deaf an’ blind, tolling for the mute
Tolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an’ cheated by pursuit
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
— Bob Dylan
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,
formerly used to kill men, but here
In the sense of a symbol. The sword: that is: the storms
and counter-storms of general destruction; killing
of men,
Destruction of all goods and materials; massacre, more or
less intentional, of children and women;
Destruction poured down from wings, the air made accomplice,
the innocent air
Perverted into assassin and poisoner.
The sword: that is: treachery and cowardice, incredible
baseness, incredible courage, loyalties, insanities.
The sword: weeping and despair, mass-enslavement,
mass-torture, frustration of all hopes
That starred man’s forehead. Tyranny for freedom, horror for
happiness, famine for bread, carrion for children.
Reason will not decide at last, the sword will decide.
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
Gerard Van der Leun
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Late in the day so I’ll listen to this half hour vid later. The speaker seems to have the chops to speak on the subject.
If that dude retired, I want to take his vacant job position! Great video.
Very informative and engaging presentation. As a former submariner, who at one time slept side by side with MK48 torpedoes in the torpedo room, I note that it took a MK48 to finish off the USS Racine. Go Navy!
Destin’s closing advice regarding the increasing political/social/cultural divisions within the U.S., and the manifestation of these divisions throughout cyberspace via the internet, while sound, may not be enough to diffuse; too little too late; the divisions the U.S. currently is contending with. I do note some positive idealistic movement here in the U.S., but I also note an increasingly desperate anti-American sentiment bordering on insanity within those individuals who blindly support all Left leaning causes. The Left seemingly is continually lowering the bar to justify violence, while those on the Right are basically attempting to hold the bar at its current level.
I love and support the precious 1st Amendment but within that context its existence protects and permits the marxist, the nazi, the fascist, radical islam and every other anti-American “ist” to demand the death of this Republic and its citizens.
Every foreign war in which the US has been engaged was fought to destroy psychotic idealists whose only goal with their chosen “ism” is the destruction of civil society, the control of all wealth, the curtailment of all rights, privileges and freedoms, the destruction of representative government and the implementation of complete domination by central figure with Godlike authority. The US military and a few allies destroyed it overseas and we should destroy it here.
For some it’s a hard pill to swallow but I’m of the opinion that this country should turn its eyes and its powers inward and focus upon the so-called progressives and leftists who are demanding socialism and communism in the nation. I’m disgusted that they are even permitted to stand in public and commit open treason by demanding the implementation of a socialist state for this nation.
We know good and damned well who they are and only a fool would consider their movements to be poorly structured and fledgling. We owe them nothing less than the ends that were enforced upon the failed regimes of Europe.
None of that multi-domain schtick is worth a tinker’s damn if what’s being defended is rotting from the inside and thus for most people becomes intolerable to live in. In the same way the Wehrmacht’s revolutionary combined-arms Blitzkrieg method was worthless because it was the spear point of a regime that made life under it intolerable for those under the regime commanding the Blitzkrieg. If all that the U.S. armed forces are doing is protecting the Open Border$ Globali$t $ellout Invade the World/Invite The World E$tabli$hment, then we taxpayers are just wasting our tax dollars to exacerbate the regime that increasingly $ell$ us out and, by multi-domain means, persecutes us. Which brings up a domain not covered in that propaganda video: the sxith domain – the domain of the intelligence agencies.
That point is that all of that multi-domain apparatus – including and especially the intelligence domain (conveniently omitted from that video, in case you hadn’t noticed) – is also being used by the $ellout E$tabli$hment Regime to deceive, manipulate, and dominate us, right here where we live. Part of that deception, manipulation, and domination is that propaganda video, which is aimed at persuading us to trust the military tool of the $ellout E$tali$hment Regime. Trust the military only if it serves not the regime, but serves instead the people whom the regime is ostensibly in place not to rule, but to govern for the benefit of the people.
Truly must we “disenthrall ourselves.”
“…the regime that increasingly $ell$ us out…”
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There it is, right before your very eyes.
Do you see it yet?
Or are you still keeping focus exclusively on the crybabies and other trash du jour ?
They’ve been stealing massively from us all our lives under threat of caging and death, and increasingly just flat out torture and then killing. THIS is the regime you choose every couple years. Some of the faces change each cycle but the regime itself just keeps getting worse and worse. To what end?
You can’t force change in others but you can modify yourself so that the effect of the regime is reduced, and you can stay out of it’s way as it stumbles forward but these things require dedication to a cause. YOUR cause. Spent any quality time with your conscience lately?
All I saw was a four star promoting himself.
This is quite pertinent to the political warfare going on right now. Unfortunately, even if I engage with understanding and graciousness with others of a different belief system , they still have the option to attempt to destroy me and my belief system, and in fact I am pretty sure they prefer that option. I think the only realistic response is to fight back, and not always like a gentleman.
Let’s rip the scab off the wound at look at it. Looks to me like a significant portion of the intel community and the judiciary at the senior levels, plus 95% of the media at all levels, have begun a war to nullify the portions of the American Constitution that they find blocking their way toward dominating and reshaping our society. They may have been conscripted by liberal politicians, but it seems like they have broken the leash, and now the politicians simply attempt to ride them like a child riding a tiger… hang on tight and let the tiger go where he wants and kill whatever he wants, because that’s the only way to don’t wind up as his lunch.
The weapon they have that we don’t is the media. It lets the tiger eat his fill of the gullible and disinterested.
OK, Ray Van Dune, I’ll play. Some of the comments above are pre-history and extra-historic, but you’re grokking that war is happening in the political arena right now.
I, myself, said when Trump came into office that he’d be well advised to disintegrate the CIA and some of the other alphabets. I don’t know why in the hell I’m not in charge of everything! Now, our “Deepthroat 2019” appears to be a CIA intel guy. I use the term “intel” advisedly. He or she didn’t know shit, and their analysis was specious in the extreme. But, the point is that the attacks happen. The left knows it’s a blunt object.
The center of gravity (back to grand strategy), what the German’s call the schwerpunkt, is the American public. The general in the video knows it’s the human realm, perception, that matters. I immediately went in my mind to the long op by the Marxists to turn our republic – it’s been going on since Marx was smoking cigars and scarfing fish in London. The wobblies, the hippies, the Antifa. Fucking dupes that don’t fool me for a second.
But, the general is identifying not the human element but the speed of operations acceleration regarding the human battlespace. Twitfer, Instagarm, de-facebook, etc, are the new battlespace. That is fascinating.
Don’t be fooled. The whole thing is still governed by basic principles set out by Jomini and von Clausewitz centuries ago. I was pleased to hear the general using the term “maneuver,” because it’s still critical. Clausewitz wanted officers to express an intellectual keenness that he called “presence of mind”. How does that effect you and me? The thinking patriotic American can outwit most libs any day of the week. Be advised, however, that the lib will act without thinking. He’s trying to become a wolf, but at this point in time he’s really more like a chihuahua. He’s a good ankle-biter, but not that good.
I have written off congress, with slow Pelosi, Schiff-forBrains, and the rest. They may write laws, but they in no way govern me. Any news article I see from the MSM I instantly handicap as being total baloney. A detail escapes here and there, but really it’s just their map of operations.
Hey, Gerard. That facebook picture as a panopticon is sweet. A reminder that the battlespace is shifting from the political class to a technocratic sort of oligarchy. Have you seen the mask-makers and camouflage artists who are creating face paint and identity-hiding garments?
We have almost lost on the element of Security, but we can still Surprise the living fuck out of them.
Keep your powder dry, my friends.
I speak missile, but not current. Olllllld missile; 40+ years ago.