His study of military and war history was known throughout the government so the autist decided to become a program developer to throw them off the trail. His actual goal of earning enough money from his programming job after he graduates to fund the start of his career working for a private military contractor doing wet work in dangerous places.
In the year 1000 the autist could have been william the conqueror or the caliph's accountant, but nowadays he just plays europa universalis while watching anime on the second monitor
As a shameless paradox gamer. We're just waiting until the bureaucrats and politicians are done being in charge of everything. Then we can actually be of use to somebody.
@@lollius88basically you have a board or computer where typically each side cannot see the other and you also have a referee in the middle. Using his example: sent troops into the houses to destroy the mortars. Referee says, “that didn’t work, he moved them.”
@@DanjasLP I always hate the "refuse to elaborate" part, because without explaining the why and how, you just look like an opinionated asshole. By explaining, you are describing exactly how they are a bunch of incompetent morons in a way that they or observers cannot refute and have zero excuses to fall on.
He’s a quirky crackpot king who will be back for his throne. Centuries from now, he will be known as one of the fathers of the modern state as they know it.
Well he’s got to rid the homeland of the invaders first then he will win the favor of the civilians that will side with him in an election where he becomes the elected leader then strips the power and authority of the government and gives all government powers to himself alongside appointing his fellow guerrilla warriors key leadership positions in the new government
I’ve looked this up once out of interest (I’m Dutch and autistic) . And what I found (although not 100% sure) can essentially be summed up as. “In the past (2017) it was something that did disqualified someone from joining the armed forces, but more recently it’s allowed, but since autism is on such a broad spectrum they look at it on a case by case basis.” but nothing concrete so I could be wrong. P.S. Every other group was defeated and this guy was cleary well read on militairy stuff so he's clearly the exception rather then the norm.
I can't speak for the Dutch but the US still uses that as a disqualification for enlistment. 😂. Not that much of an exception. It really depends on what that individual finds as their passion.
@@steamer2k319 I would suggest that you actually do some reading on the definition. If we are using your definition; that would be virtually half the male population at least.
Tbf, I don’t think anon meant that he was disqualified for being autistic but that he just didn’t want to. Not sure about the rules in most countries, but I imagine you can get in most forces if you’re higher functioning and can hide it. Might still make advancing more difficult if you don’t work on your social skills.
You also can’t commit war crimes if your paramilitary unit isn’t officially recognized as a military unit, thus while you cannot become a pow you also don’t have to follow international treaties based on the treatment of prisoners or adversaries forces.
The game Shadow Empire has a card, I think its called "funny little man" that you can attach to a commander that is described as an autistic military advisor that gives a big Command buff
@@Groundhog2424it's interesting, but complicated. And not newb friendly which is fine it's not for casual. But do give it a try, bare in mind you'll need to read the manual to understand what to do
@@nurgleschosen8145 this game is a hardcore wargame with ugly UI and technology tree softlocks all over the place. You cant just recommend it to a guy from internet and say that it's not newb friendly, it's like recomending ASCII version of dwarf rortress
If I had a nickel for every time an artist humiliated the dutch military, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
What are you talking about...? Hitler was an abysmal war leader. Family Guy jokes are less formulaic than your comment. Feed yourself into farming equipment, nobody wants you.
Hitler himself was not a very bright General. The one time he took direct control of the operational planning was in Fall Blau where although his plans were strategically sound he made rookie mistakes at the tactical and operational levels and arguably lost the war.
The tech definitely helps, but if there's no one competent to use it then at best you're barely breaking even. A competent person with a knife can take out an incompetent or unaware person with an automatic weapon, and you can't exactly capture and hold a strategic position with a missile alone no matter how nuclear the payload is. Deny the area, for sure, but you have to move your dudes in afterwards or it's just blasting.
@@BeaglzRok1 Some of the most effective insurgents are the ones that set up fire a single shot at the enemy then leave while the enemy's spend all day searching for him. As an insurgent you want to make the enemy work as hard as possible while being as uncomfortable as possible and spend as much time, equipment, and personnel as possible while doing the bare minimum yourself.
@@happyjohn354Yes because the conventional army has to win wars, and the insurgents just need to outlast them until the conventional army decides the insurgents aren't worth the effort.
As much as Starship Tropers is a critic to militarized governments, there's something Zim (the drill instructor) did when Ace Levy complained because they were throwing knives, and the punchline after that: you can't drop a nuke with an incapacitated hand.
Lol, i love when people say that. There was a dude killing cops in the uk a while back amd they had to pull in the armed units from i think 6 different towns and had ALL of the british inteligence agencies involved along with (allegedly) a fighter jet from the RAF and a cash reward for information all to try and find 1 guy with a sawn off. Now imagine you have 500 and they're relatively armed and semi organized.
You guys dont get it, having high tech stuff and expensive equipment is not where the game is at. You have to follow strict code of honour and law, insurgents dont. While for an army equipment, comms and training quality is the limit, the only limit insurgents has is their own imagination and wits. They are not locked in with you, you are locked in with them. Good luck surviving.
Well, it's your problem if you obey the law while fighting your enemy IRL. Law is a list of recommendations rather then a strict code after all, and noone will thank you if you lost the war, but obeyed the "rules". I would decimate this kid in a minute.
@@s.novozhilov1856 ah yes, lets violate the Geneva “ Suggestions “ and see where our public and global support is.. oh well.. in the gutters.. wait what do you mean we are being sanctioned by 2/3 of the world? ITS ALL WESTERN IMPERIALISM REEEE! > Starts to beg Iran and North Korea for supplies food and equipment. Well, feel free to ignore the rules of war, at your own peril, my dude. Also remember when Coalition soldiers thought they could do a little “ trolling “ in Afganistan, Iraq and Vietnam and they got kicked out just like everywhere they entered? Yeah. Keep thinking like a caveman and keep finding out lmao.
@@molotovchucker Not if you won. History already has a very *very* long list of people that should have been imprisoned for breaking geneva convention or any other war 'laws' and got away with it. I mean look at the us troops that used napalm to flush out bin laden in a civvie area, or the countless drone strikes on hospitals and schools. Did we prosecute them, and send them to guantanomo bay? No we decorated them as heroes. I believe that this is the point that was being made.
this is basically the plot of every advance wars game from the Black Hole Army's POV: giant well-rounded super-military goes up against a teenager with minmaxed stats in "tacticalness" and instantly dies
another commenter said something like: "In another life, this guy would've been William the conqueror. Or the Caliph's accountant, but today he just plays EU4 while watching anime on the other monitor".
It's interesting how autistic people can in general be seen as sorta unusable in everyday life, but they always got something they are better at than everyone else. We had one in school, electrical engineering. Most of the time he could be seen standing in a corner and swaying keys in his hand, not talking to anyone and generally being pretty weird, but ho boi when it came to the subject of electronics, he was unmatched and in every single local competition his opponents stood no chance. So ye, I can absolutely believe this being totally real.
When the soviets told ho chi min ti focus in building up his mechanized infantry and air force he said “if we fought the usa like you fought the germans we would have lost immediately”
If this was turn based with a dice roll system (computer) It would be kinda hard not to win as the insurgents, your cons are worse equipment (maybe less mp) while you would inturn have to follow less rules, and the opposing team if they were forced to abide by international laws would prb have a bunch of laws that would cut there creativity
@@goforbroke4428 That is after years of bleeding the enemy, and even then it was still an extremely costly victory. North Vietnam certainly could not afford that throughout the whole war. It was meant to be decisive.
Honestly, that guy should be contacted, offered a massive payroll, and utilised as a wargame designer and planner, and as a commander for OPFOR in wargames, he sounds highly intelligent
When idiots demand fealty from their superiors, don't be shocked if they refuse. I'm sorry, but you first need a society they believe in before they are willing to defend it. Money doesn't matter to them, stability does. Money doesn't buy stability when the money machine go brrr, corporations gobble up all the real estate, banks deny you access to your bank account, mainstream media runs your name through the dirt, and the courts extort you. Why would someone intelligent protect that? Even the offer of power is mute, because quite frankly you end up surrounded by people you detest and loathe for an illusion of control. But let's say they do accept the offer. The first thing they're gonna do is eliminate their political opposition, not because they want more power, but simply because they're too corrupt and stupid to be trusted. You know, there's something in the Bible about 144,000 virgins taking control of the Earth under Jesus's leadership...maybe that should be a rule: Only virgins can lead, because continuing their gene pool is not a factor in their decisions, stability and relative comfort is.
You're talking about a nation so incompetent at national defense they had 40 years to prepare to survive a siege with 6 months of supplies and by the end of that 40 year period they had only stocked up on 3 days of food. (Franco Prussian war - WW1)
"a warlord could beat you, I don't want to work for an embarrassment" *holy... shit...* Now that is beyond weapons grade level autism, feel like I'm wasting my own autism now...
I've always said they should let autistic people in the military even if it's just in assisting roles a lot of them have abilities that would be massive benefits wether it be photographic memories the ability to think in different and more efficient ways or whatever have you they would be useful on or off the battlefield
Insurgants are impossible to take out so i cant really blame the guy for losing you cant fight an enemy if they dont show their face among a crowd of their countryman
Insurgants are impossible to take out if you are trying to hold on to some aspect of morality/immedate use in the region. Hidding amoungst civilians only works when the enemy isn't willing to just kill them.
@@calebblaha7854 fun fact, killing civilians doesn´t work either. The nazis decided that any civilian caught in 10 kms or so from any dead german soldier would be treated as a partisan. Tito the leader of the yugoslav partisans just recruited entire towns that way, because you either join up with the partisans or you get executed by the germans anyway
Lightning fast motorcyclists, knowing in advance where enemy will land, literally using boats that can't carry rockets to launch them into a carrier 1 km offshore for some reasons. MC 2002 was so bad and commander was a whining swine who just didn't want US military to get any high- tech equipment.
@@slacky4787 It's not supposed to add up to 100%. The 20% casualty rate means 20% of their respective forces died. 60% of civilians dying means.. 60% of total civilians in the whole region, independent of insurgents or military personnel, died.
It's like 30k Space Marines (autism) vs 40k Space Marines (neurotypical). One is a fighting force comprised of specialized squads that excel at its specific task (tankbusting, anti-infantry, etc) vs a more well rounded but generally less effective squad.
Please, for the love of god, stop inserting the word "literally" in literally every sentence. It's literally the most annoying thing ever, not even just cause it's used incorrectly, but also because it's literally so damn repetitive. It's a verbal tick that adds literally nothing of value to a sentence except for when it's used for its literal definition. It degrades your message regardless of how good or true it is. Literally.
This was some serious National Liberation Front of South Vietnam shit. Sprinkle in a tad bit of determination for unification, civilian support on the other side and lack of such on this side, and there you have the Vietnam War experience
Except the reality was that a bunch of qualified officers told the politicians "This is how we win. This is how we lose." the information was correct, and the politicians opted "We pick 90% lose". Every failure from the Battle for Chora to basically ending up intel-blind was a political decision taken in opposition to all military advice. Sometimes very creative solutions were devised. Such as OP Poentjak being used to 'plug the hole' if you will. Mandate only says defensive fighting, but we must hunt down insurgents offensively as tactical imperative? The politicians are too weak and dumb to sanction offensive fighting? We'll put down an OP so obvious that they MUST fire at it the second they enter the valley, and then we have been engaged and we can engage in turn 'defensively'. The effect is the same, but that way weak leftwing politicians could tell their shortsighted beer-drinking drug-smoking flock that "We never allowed even 1 offensive action"
It’s hilarious how you guys plus a gang of others similar organizations that don’t even have sognificant weapons manufacturing anymore think they’re going to take on the Russians.
Better to be a meme than the world police, that was my biggest reason for not joining the US military, also politics changed for the worse and I don’t like senile politicians making domestic threats towards other Americans.
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 So how did you feel abou Trumpler's "kick the crap out of him" and "Maybe the Second Amendment people can take care of her" and "I'll pay your legal bills"?
Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian forces in Afghanistan punched way above their weight in Afghanistan. They had spent 12 years preparing a guerrilla war against a returning Russia - they knew how to run one, and, by default, how someone would fight one. OUtside of USA, UK, Australia, Canada, France - most of NATO were worse than a joke in Afghanistan
@@Mortablunt it still isn't NATO sorry buddy you won't get your rubles today, NATO trains a lot of foreign militaries Australia uses equipment made in NATO countries but is not NATO, same for Singapore, Philippines and a lot of African countries
Reality: the autistic kid is the one writing the post, and he's imagining what he would do if he was invited for a wargame with his country's military.
Lmao, this might be it. One detail clearly stands out as wrong. The "handgrenades" which killed two lads in Mali and severely injured one, was actually one mortar round which exploded in the pipe during a lifex. Source, Henry Hoving en Kevin Roggeveld were from my unit.
As a person who knows plenty of the gamedev students in Breda's University, I can confirm most of them are brilliant pacifist military genius autists. Most of them prefer lexical knowledge and deeper understanding to games. No wonder we hardly see the soldiers from the academy since this incident.
Government: "We want to control people." Me: "So how are you going to do that?" Government: "By threatening to kill them." Me: "Okay, so listen to me, or I'll kill you." Government: "No way! We'd fight you to the end!" Me: "Exactly, YOU DUMB FAQS! Nobody wants to feel like they're being ruled over by their inferiors, they'd rather die!" Government: "Oh..."
Not really. If you gave the kid all the live weapons and kit, and then gave him a hiding spot and told him to subvert the Dutch state, odds are half his insurgents would get arrested at some random place a few weeks after he started acting. The only real advantage the insurgent has is disguising himself as a civilian (Which even the government force can do, in a limited capacity). Everything else the government can do as well- from hiding their base of operations to having constant eyes everywhere.
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Well, not like this, it's made up. However you can run sims on paper where you both make input and the instructors act as judges whether things are possible. This is roughly what this story is based on. This allows you to quickly run a dozen or so scenarios within a day and come up with evolving plans. The risks are 1 instructors judgements may be wrong (such as the 'insurgent lord' keeping contact with dispersed troops, doesn't happen in reality) and them dismissing genuine opfor options, OR incorrectly accepting opfor options as viable when they're not. And 2, wargaming like that can lead to character-responses, by that I mean you don't react based on the information, but based on you knowing the other vaandrig (or insert other branches' ranks) as a person, and based on their previous responses. Which is why you typically rotate, OR do a 'blind session' where you don't know who plays opfor. The alternative is wargaming in reality which is basically a combined arms excersize. You typically want this since it gives you much experience coordinating, and it's much more realistic. You can have simulated ammunition and the MILES system for 'real shooting'. It has its limitations, but if you do something cheeky (more than one recruit typically has the idea to tape up his laser receivers and become invulnerable) instructors just kill you with the 'god gun'. When that happens casualties are simulated and for example four guys are told they are now immobile casualties and the rest leaves. ISAF deployment was however well understood in advance, and it got f*cked exclusively for political reasons. The politicians were told "This is how we win" and they said no. Then one heroic guy broke regs and went out by himself to fix things, well that cost him his career and even going to the press made zero impact other than him getting to tell a newspaper "I told you so." I like him and he's got more balls than me, but he got discharged over it and in the end Donald Vladimirovich Trump would suggest surrender to the Taliban like the little rapist coward that he is, so none of it matters in the end.
@@jackm4124 Look, this guy was a colleague basically, has bigger balls than me and got published as a failure anyway. It's not fair if I spread the word. He gambled with publicity and lost, it happens. However, Roughly the problems he complained about in the paper, are described by our former LT Van der Voorn. His PHD paper can be downloaded as PDF by searching Martijn van der Vorm, The Crucible of War. Dutch and British military learning processes in and beyond southern Afghanistan. It kinda opens with 'We had a severe lack of intel officers'. Well yay, that's how even a guy like me was able to land a job. 😆
High function Autism referred to as aspergers is what I have... step one: hostile forces know where I am... need fix... stay mobile. Step 2: fuck with their Intel. Step 3: ambush and remove hostile forces gradually. Step 4: engage in attrition warfare in small groups utilizing hit and run staying mobile. Step 5: set traps where we were arming as we leave.
What a legend. To think I knew Mali. I know that shit hole. Spoke to some random dude who said he ran the country but he got his army taken out. Months before A coup happened. I warned him to prepare to prevent an uprising but he fell out of power. Weird shit. Rebels killed a bunch of his men in an ambush. He had his army turn on him. And then his country installed a military junta.
The other way around, they probably picjed civilians specifically because they were expecting to have a quick victory, this was probably an attempt to make an exercise just to get funding for an specific system or to fudge some statistics. Just like the millenium exercise with the USA where thry had to change the rules a bunch of times to try to ensure an USA victory
I still can't get over fact that solders play RPGs and LARP and are in denial about it. "you go into an inn and the innkeeper speaks Arabic" "i cast frag granade" "this is enclosed space " "so what" "creat new characters"
1. In late february 1949, after successfuly capturing Yogyakarta city that functioned as Indonesia's capital, dutch delegation announcing to the UN council that indonesia is over, indonesia is no more. Few days later in the early morning of 1 March 1949, dutch military in yogyakarta got completely destroyed by indonesian forces and yogyakarta city then liberated. This sending shock to dutch leaders both in batavia and netherland that their huge forces in yogyakarta are being destroyed by indonesian forces that fight using bow, spear, machete and broken japanese gun. Then in april 1949 in UN assembly meeting, dutch delegation receiving alot of mockery from every UN member countries. Even US delegation looking at them in disbelief that instead of using money from marshal plan to rebuild their country, dutch government using it to annexing other country, their ex-colony. It's apear that dutch government never expecting that just in hours after indonesian forces liberating yogyakarta, indonesian diplomats spreading news about the liberation and everything that dutch military had done to the entire world, and it spark alot of angers. Then in december 1949, after being badly humiliated, dutch government then acknowledging indonesian independence 2. After signing document of acknowledgement to indonesian independence, dutch government is supposed to return the entire dutch-east indies teritory to indonesia. But, instead of doing it, they are holding and reject to return west papua to indonesia. This causing both indonesia and dutch to return in diplomatic and military conflict again. The result is in 1960, indonesia launcing a trikora camaign to liberating west papua from dutch control. At first allied nations such as US, UK and Aus expecting the conflict won't be that big. But when they know the scale of military preparation indonesia had prepare, they are horified because the scale of military arsenal indonesia had prepare is similiar to the scale of military arsenal as if Indonesia is participated in WW2. Afrsid that the conflict may restarting ww2, UK quickly isolating indonesia from foreign intervention and US pressurizing dutch to surrender. Dutch government felt humiliated because of this that they don't have any other option and had to return west papua to indonesia
Even in spite of his clear merit, they wouldn't take him because he was diagnosed autistic. He probably knew that, and didn't bother trying to plead his case and just took the opportunity to really show them who's boss. That's really a shame, still.
No way that's happening in any European country without a coup d'etat or a revolution. Systemic military issues are tied into every other systemic issue here, which are invariably the result of the nation's entire political body being made of utterly selfish morons. You go to the Netherlands, you go to Britain, you go to France, you go to Belgium, you go to Romania, you go to Germany, you go to Hungary, you can go whenever - it doesn't change. Nordic countries are marginally better, but give it a few years, and they'll be in hell with the rest of us. Every single politician who gets anywhere in their country is a slimy, double-talking creep who cares solely stuffing as much money as they can into their pockets, before the outrage from all the scandals they've created inevitability pushes their party out of office.
He pulled the russian badger plan on yall, if you do the most random shit, and half the time not know what the plan is, then the enemy will be confused beyonf repair. And then fuck up shit BAD.
@@rowdy8814 I know it was strategic, but tell me, do you think the subordinates of autistic warlord know every single time what the plan is? Or did they make random shit up along the way sometimes? AS badger said, the best plan is no plan. And i we do not know what we are doing, neihter will the enemy.
They made a videogame about this guy! Except in that, he was an anthropologist in a post-apocalyptic future that enslaved 87 tribes out of sheer spite for California.
That’s Afghanistan in a nutshell. They’re one with the locals whereas you are completely different in clothing. They can spot you, you can’t spot them. This has nothing to do with an autist or history buff. This has to do with understanding urban and unconventional warfare.
The premise is dumb. Fighting against that kind of militia is an information game. If your "war game" was built with the premise of a regular conflict it probably isn't suited to take into account the nuances of a local insurgent force.
This Autist kid sounds like me. Then again I am a Autist who is interested in Military History and Military Stuff. It would have been a dream to have a opportunity in real life like this. Just a shame that the Autistic People are just automatically discounted from the Military, because they are widly thought to be too out of the box for the army. TBH I wouldn't mind it. The Dutch are planning on bringing back a years service, so I maybe able to join in the future.
Yeah, in the British Navy it turned out a fairly high ranking officer was autistic. Organisations need to stop automatically disqualifying people if they are autistic. If they find out a person is autistic they should psychologically evaluate them on a case by case basis. Some people have rather severe autism which would certainly disqualify them from the army or other lines of works, but other times the person's autism is milder and just ends up in a slightly quirky person who could work in that organisation just fine.
@@dabtican4953 in some cases it gives them more of an advantage. If you look though history a lot of famous figures in the military have been quirky and eccentric likely having autism before it was a thing. Just look at people like Thomas Cochrane, "Mad" Jack Churchill who asides carrying a Bow and Sword into battle. Used to throw his suitcase out of the train window when it passed his house so he wouldn't have to carry it with him from the station. Lastly there was also David Sterling who founded the SAS
If you can get in shape, you can go private. Do a couple years as an unarmed guard with absolutely any security company. Then upgrade your license to armed guard and do a couple years of those jobs. Then take additional disciplines, such as executive protection, site management, and close protection. You do that you’ll be a highly competent, private security contractor, and have more than the qualifications to get sent basically anywhere but the active front line.
He casually showed why Afghanistan was a completely unwinnable situation right from the get go. And Western casualty rates were far, far lower. (Unlike the casualty rates of allies Afghan forces)
Dutch just aren't military inclined. A few years ago they sent their best special forces soldiers to tbe US for joint training. 3 of the dutch kommandos gone out to drink got in a fight with a random black guy and lost.
Imagine if a kid was autistic and his hyper focus was something like creation theories, or archaeology, and they preformed this well at it and debunked something scientists have been arguing for years about at a glance because of how obsessed with the topic they are.
@@MK_ULTRA420 seems kind of unrelated but I do happen to love dinosaurs. And something similar I love is the recent development that Carnotaurus' "vestigial" arms may be used for mating dances!
some anonymous autist did accidentally solve an unsolved math problem by calculating how any times he'd have to re watch Haruhi Suzumia in different orders. I'm not remembering what it was for, but there where real mathematicians talking about how he solved a problem to a higher degree than before.
Yeah, that strange hexagon ball thingy with little stub legs and holes that archeologists keep finding EVERYWHERE and don't understand what is? That's a multi-size pottery, bowl, jug, and vase holder. Look at how the bottoms of some pottery is REALLY thin, to the point that it's dangerous to stand them up on their own. I compare them to how we use wooden pallets to hold goods. They are just as common in the ancient world as wood pallets are in our day, and the mundane purpose would explain why there are no texts about it. I believe that you can also use these doohickeys to help stack pottery tightly into a ship or wagon without damaging it. Pots and jugs were used to hold all kinds of goods, so it'd only make sense they'd find an efficient way to stack them. So, why haven't I brought this to the archeological community as an autist? Because to even talk to them you need a degree. It's funny how the academic types can't figure out what a blue collar working autist can. I came to my conclusions on the doohickey via realizing that abundance plus lack of explanation meant its purpose must be especially mundane, and there isn't a more mundane purpose than logistics. It's even more mundane than sanitation, because at least you can be motivated to complain about sanitation.
