Sipsey Street Irregulars: Praxis: "Fast Rifles."

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Praxis: "Fast Rifles."

There are many lessons in this fragment of history for the small unit leader and especially for the soon-to-be militia commander thrust into a situation where he must integrate newbies with veterans on the fly to achieve the best results. Don't let the political strategic failure of Vietnam blind you to some of its tactical successes that can be applied to future conflicts -- especially the civil war that is being thrust upon us by the collectivists of our own country. Print this one out and study it later at your leisure, and for distribution to other subordinate leaders.

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Chiu ChunLing said...: This is how you "win hearts and minds"...by winning combat engagements. The credibility and honor of a military force can never be wholly established apart from direct military action. It's a timeless principle, which politicians who consider their persons too wise and valuable to ever be tested in combat would rather forget.; December 3, 2015 at 4:52 PM
Anonymous said...: And I'll say a prayer for the people of that village that were probably slaughtered by communist forces when our politicians stopped supplying the RVN. I'm sure the VC sympathizers had long memories..; December 4, 2015 at 5:00 AM
Anonymous said...: In 1968, I was twelve years old. We had three channels of "processed news" on television and protest songs on the AM transistor radio. There were communist sympathizers in our high school, so my older sister tells me. She was seventeen. We had two or three from our town that died in that war. The daily body counts on the evening news was scary. But the VC body count was always ten to twenty times the American body count. Me and my twelve year old friends wondered when we would get our draft notices. It was hard to talk about because we knew we could easily end up like the two or three. It was an unsettling time. I was glad in 1974 when it was all over, but I still didn't like Nixon. Now, at age 59, I look back and realize that he likely saved my life.; December 5, 2015 at 7:06 PM

"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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Praxis: "Fast Rifles."

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