(FB 1542332558 Timestamp) WE BELIEVE WAR IS POLITICS BY OTHER MEANS AND THEY BELIEVE POLITICS IS WAR BY OTHER MEANS. by Greg Hamilton I became acutely aware of the issue about twenty years ago when I read The Western Way of War by VDH We westerners have been trained and probably genetically selected to favor one type of war, the decisive battle with terms of surrender. Basically nearly a sporting event. This led me on a big study of maneuver and asymmetry. Here my super short takeaway. Asymmetry of beliefs, values, definitions, etc is a harder asymmetry to deal with than weapons, skills, etc. We can kill the islamic terrorists 100:1 and they consider themselves the victor. And our national will is broken by the 1. Somalia pirates are savages with rifles and we cant bring ourselves to just overwhelm them and be done with it, so they actually threaten giant steel ships. Asymmetry of beliefs. Our new morals are paralyzing and suicidal. China conducts non-stop war upon us, its just doesn’t include shooting, and we roll over and take it. Because we believe war is politics by other means and they believe politics is war by other means.
Theme: Coercion
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542498418 Timestamp) CIVIL WARS AROUND THE WORLD DO NOT RELY ON DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE STREETS – THOSE ARE EASILY QUELLED If you look around the world, men don’t buy supplies for civil war. Money has no meaning when there are a thousand of you. Power has no meaning when there are ten thousand of you. Resistance has no meaning when there are one million of you. In fact, the central problem is retaining enough small units such that the territory can replenish, while the urban centers do not. Logistics (feeding, organizing) quickly becomes a negative when you centralize too many men. Defeat becomes a possibility when you centralize too many men. Being ‘annoying’ everywhere is the most certain strategy to bring about revolutionary change. We take our order for granted, but if a civil war can keep pressure on the supply lines (economy) for over ninety days the patterns of sustainable specialization and trade cannot be restored (supply lines will collapse). HERE IS THE MAGIC BIT TO SOLVE: A mob is very easy to mobilize once together. But mobilizing a lot of smaller mobs is much harder. Yet that is how it is done. That is the future of civil war.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542498418 Timestamp) CIVIL WARS AROUND THE WORLD DO NOT RELY ON DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE STREETS – THOSE ARE EASILY QUELLED If you look around the world, men don’t buy supplies for civil war. Money has no meaning when there are a thousand of you. Power has no meaning when there are ten thousand of you. Resistance has no meaning when there are one million of you. In fact, the central problem is retaining enough small units such that the territory can replenish, while the urban centers do not. Logistics (feeding, organizing) quickly becomes a negative when you centralize too many men. Defeat becomes a possibility when you centralize too many men. Being ‘annoying’ everywhere is the most certain strategy to bring about revolutionary change. We take our order for granted, but if a civil war can keep pressure on the supply lines (economy) for over ninety days the patterns of sustainable specialization and trade cannot be restored (supply lines will collapse). HERE IS THE MAGIC BIT TO SOLVE: A mob is very easy to mobilize once together. But mobilizing a lot of smaller mobs is much harder. Yet that is how it is done. That is the future of civil war.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542904578 Timestamp) —“You (we) must meet violence for violence and threat for threat. Else you (we) will be overrun by tyrants claiming to be tolerant.”— Stephen Klostermeier
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(FB 1542899278 Timestamp) I’m actually a fairly nice guy. But you know, when the
(FB 1542899278 Timestamp) I’m actually a fairly nice guy. But you know, when the left retreats into socialism and shaming, the libertarian and right must retreat into fascism and threat. I restore that honesty to the discourse. So that’s what you’re seeing. Me restoring war (violence) to the discourse. It’s very hard to be a moral person and disagree with ‘markets in everything’.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542993121 Timestamp) THE MURDEROUS JEWS, CHRISTIANS,AND MUSLIMS —“The Greek-Roman world was not…converted to a new religion, but compelled to embrace it.” The Emperor Theodosian issued a series of decrees or rescripts in the years 341, 345, 356, 381, 383, 386 and 391 CE. They effect of these orders was to “suppress all rival religions, order the closing of the temples, and impose fines, confiscation, imprisonment or death upon any who cling to the older [Pagan] religions.” The period of relative religious tolerance in the Roman Empire ended as Pagan temples were seized and converted to Christian use or destroyed. Priests and Priestesses were exiled or killed. Christianity and Judaism became the only permitted religions. In Spain, bishop Priscillian, who taught some Gnostic beliefs was the first person to be condemned as a heretic and executed by his fellow Christians on religious grounds. The church used the power of the state to begin programs to oppress, exile or exterminate both Pagans and Gnostic Christians. By the end of the century, Pagan temples had been either destroyed or recycled for Christian use. Pagan worship became punishable by death. But government toleration was not without its cost. The Emperor Constantine and later political rulers demanded a major say in the running of the church and in decisions on its beliefs. “—
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542909901 Timestamp) LAW CHANGES HUMAN BEHAVIOUR FIRST. SOCIAL SHAMING SECOND, REWARD THIRD. by Bill Joslin Law changes human behaviour first. Social shaming second, reward third. Subsumed in a world of business people who manage by leaning on the crutch of “incentives”(bonuses, commissions etc) I’m often aghast at how blind they are to the strength of disincentives in average workers. People, when under stress, will gladly take on opportunity costs to avoid pain (lose that bonus to avoid the continual abuse of a shitty client). We’re wired to avoid costs and mitigate risk almost to the point of death. When disincentives are suppressed (when we’re trained to behave properly), incentives come into play.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542904578 Timestamp) —“You (we) must meet violence for violence and threat for threat. Else you (we) will be overrun by tyrants claiming to be tolerant.”— Stephen Klostermeier
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(FB 1542899278 Timestamp) I’m actually a fairly nice guy. But you know, when the
(FB 1542899278 Timestamp) I’m actually a fairly nice guy. But you know, when the left retreats into socialism and shaming, the libertarian and right must retreat into fascism and threat. I restore that honesty to the discourse. So that’s what you’re seeing. Me restoring war (violence) to the discourse. It’s very hard to be a moral person and disagree with ‘markets in everything’.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1542993121 Timestamp) THE MURDEROUS JEWS, CHRISTIANS,AND MUSLIMS —“The Greek-Roman world was not…converted to a new religion, but compelled to embrace it.” The Emperor Theodosian issued a series of decrees or rescripts in the years 341, 345, 356, 381, 383, 386 and 391 CE. They effect of these orders was to “suppress all rival religions, order the closing of the temples, and impose fines, confiscation, imprisonment or death upon any who cling to the older [Pagan] religions.” The period of relative religious tolerance in the Roman Empire ended as Pagan temples were seized and converted to Christian use or destroyed. Priests and Priestesses were exiled or killed. Christianity and Judaism became the only permitted religions. In Spain, bishop Priscillian, who taught some Gnostic beliefs was the first person to be condemned as a heretic and executed by his fellow Christians on religious grounds. The church used the power of the state to begin programs to oppress, exile or exterminate both Pagans and Gnostic Christians. By the end of the century, Pagan temples had been either destroyed or recycled for Christian use. Pagan worship became punishable by death. But government toleration was not without its cost. The Emperor Constantine and later political rulers demanded a major say in the running of the church and in decisions on its beliefs. “—