Form: Quote Commentary

VIDEO: MILITARY STRATEGY – A GLOBAL HISTORY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5lemhX6vo

COMMENTS
Smart speaker. Well done. The west strategically won Vietnam. The consequence of the west’s strategy is that we drove Russia and China together. … The great failure was not uniting with Russia WHEN THEY ASKED FOR IT. (CD: We anglos are always strategically stupid) All the south had to do to win is to make the north not win. (CD: Politics is not (yet) empirical. Democracy is anti-empirical. Republics and Democracies are Terrible at strategies. ) … With present pressures, we are likely to see more internal stresses (violence). … We see those not using external forces as peaceful, but if we look at the suppression of Marxists in India, that’s war. (CD: Why isn’t the left’s prosecution of white males and western civilization by institutional means not war?) …. Jomini or Clausewitz don’t tell you much useful about 19th, 20th, or 21st-century states where conflicts are largely internal. (CD: I think this is better stated as the history of western evolution of the domestication of warfare is an intellectual prison still constraining the western mind when Leftists, Islam and China, do not have this same error. The Chinese do not play rules-based-strategy they rely only on power of self-interest.) Americans love to think of themselves as living in a failed state, it is still the most successful state. (CD: I disagree and I am certain that we will have a civil war very shortly.) The military does not have a practice of interfering in government, but the government does in the military and the reason the military hasn’t to date (CD: but will). … (more)

VIDEO: MILITARY STRATEGY – A GLOBAL HISTORY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5lemhX6vo

COMMENTS AND THOUGHTS

The west strategically won Vietnam. The west’s fundamental strategy is that we drive russia and china together. The great failure was not uniting with russia WHEN THEY ASKED FOR IT. (We are always stupid) All the south had to do to win is to make the north not win. Politics is not (yet) empirical. Democracy is anti-empirical. Republics and Democracies are Terrible at strategies.

Strategy like morality is almost impossible to discuss, because the first principles are not established. Only Militaries and Kings understand strategy because only Militaries and Kings can operationally afford to.

Those states that most have to fear instability and insurrection within – and where the military’s primary responsibility is internal stability rather than out of area wars.

Most stratgic writing is nonsense bcause it doesn’t tell you what you need to know if you’re running 90% of the countries in the world throughout history. its only for those who can externally project power.

Once you know what the natural law requires, you build a military that will make it possible internally by creating rult of law, so that you can build a military that will transform to make it possible externally.

This is why only those civilizations (only europeans) that develop rule of law as their first institution, state as their second, and religion only as their third can develop a high trust polity. And the second dirty secret is that this can only occurr in a homogenous polity, where the incentives to respect natural law already exist, and the contrary incentives (tribalism) don’t.

YOU NEED RULE OF LAW INTERNALLY. YOU NEED STRATEGY EXTERNALLY.

P-Law establishes the first principles of law, politics, group strategy, strategy, and war.