Sipsey Street Irregulars: David Codrea: Making Military Less Formidable to Enemy Endangers Lives

Thursday, October 15, 2015

David Codrea: Making Military Less Formidable to Enemy Endangers Lives

"(W)hile it’s not included in the 'Declaration of Orders We Will Not Obey,' active duty Oath Keepers might want to think about what they would say to a superior ordering them to take part in an activity they consider humiliatingly and dangerously subversive, and what their options for getting out of it might be."

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Chiu ChunLing said...: I do think that these kinds of exercises in effeminacy hurt our credibility in the Muslim world, but for near-peer adversaries they are spit on the cake. The Russians will privately joke about it, the Chinese will be strictly forbidden from mentioning it at all, but neither will fear us less because of it...only because they can't possibly fear us any less at this point, with more than adequate reason.

Muslims underestimating the U.S. costs lives, but mainly those of their nation's residents. Which is still a bad thing, but not actually a worse thing than a lack of strategic resolve to use our forces effectively.

Putin and Xi are both evidently still working out the degree to which they've overestimated us. Neither is letting superficialities like the silliness of our politics affect their judgment, they didn't get where they are by being totally fooled by appearances. I still don't know what Xi is waiting for, but so far it's always turned out to be something that works against us. I'm not ready to believe that the U.S. is actually going to outright surrender and appeal to become a tributary client of China...but that outcome is starting to look less impossible every day. Putin, on the other hand, seems positively impatient to provoke a full-blown war.

If I were still recommending military service to my relatives, this would dissuade me. But we're so far past that point that this is not even relevant.; October 15, 2015 at 11:29 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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