Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession 

History knows of only one pure democracy that waged a failed war in Sicily and wound up conquered by the rule by force and indiscriminate violence against their Hoplite slaves that was Sparta. Many Leaders in a republic or democracy have made unverifiable claims (also known as conjecture promoted by the lie of feigned certainty transformed into rhetorical persuasion). In the Greek case, the conjecture concerned intent and plans of the Persian Emperor who promoted himself as a god. If Xerces had succeeded, Europe would have begun adopting the same destructively paranoids and brutal rule or die dynamic that prevented the formation of the strong middle classes that pre-20th century Asia deprived itself of. Themistocles insisted on the expansion of the Athenian Navy that was instrumental at preventing Persian rule in Greece culminating in decisive victories by sea at the Straits of Salamis and decisively on land at the Battle of Plataea. But, how he predicted the Persian invasion is not known. But, is an instinct that cannot be rationally justified based on fact a lie or is it a mysterious aspect of human intelligence that quite naturally must anticipate and prepare for very real threat to survive. The truth is in any competitive arena including warfare, absolute certainty is very rare. That's why humans developed instinct, intuition and faith. Because in the long term, uncertainty is the norm whenever there is competitive conflict between near equal contenders. That said, as the son of a PO1 US Navy, I must point out that a free Europe may not have happened if the Greeks hadn't started out as an eastern Mediterranean tribe of sea faring pirates. Without seafaring ships and their crews centuries before the dawn of the Christian era, the revolutionary idea of citizen rule and the subsequent Greek and Roman disdain for tyranny may never have been take seriously by Northern Europeans. Europe may well have been stuck with only monarchy, feudalism and empire, the ancient progenitors of America's greatest post-cold war enemy, the globalist self-worshipping pedophile, perversion and anti-human, anti-family promoting Davos frequenting globalist left that always seems to predict and promote (likely by direct management) the next maniacally evil anti-American anti-liberty mass delusional self-destructive fallacy designed to bring about human ruin, extinction and technological replacement using automation, robotics and machine learning that the American left and hijacked democrat party seem hellbent on openly bringing to demonically evil fruition. They are so confident, they have abandoned their traditional artful deceptions, yet our own military FAILS consistently to recognize America's most existential of enemies foreign and domestic likely due to infiltration. What good is a military that refuses or fails to recognize its most existential enemy while allowing itself to be used by corrupt politicians for personal enrichment? About as good as the standing army that allowed the huns to sack Rome when they refused to be happy with concessions allowing them to settle in Gaul in exchange for military service the Romans had grown incapable of providing itself over its vast yet doomed western Empire, leaving them conquered in Italy and confined as a sovereign state to Byzantium (modern Turkey) for the remaining centuries of Roman imperialism before Moorish gunpowder rendered the immense concrete fortresses and cisterns of Constantinople indefensible. How Turkish dominance of Constantinople, which lies on the western shore opposite Pelopennesia, stands to this day through two World Wars and one Turkish defeat boggles my mind? You'd think the treaty that ended World War I would have made Constantinople European again. Can someone explain this to me? It should have been a lot easier than the Charge of the Light Brigade to make Constantinople Christian again after victory in World War I.

a lot of it is also just blame-shifting. Like, I remember a friend of mine worked in a coffee shop, and they had to fill out a log book about how they'd done safety stuff. Obviously, it was impossible to actually operate the shop the way the book required, but by making it a requirement corporation shifted responsibility to the employees.

Happened to me too. Once in the Army (though not the US. But don’t expect that other armies are different) roughly 40 years ago, twice on the job, 10 years and 6 years ago. That’s the way how to finish with society.

Losing your career standing up for the truth is heroism not tragedy. Sometimes heroism has consequences. But to a true warrior, the sacrifice can often be right and necessary in the prevention of self-inflicted disaster in the ranks.

Makes the hurt feel good! If I knew the Army operated like that I probably wouldn't have to worry about being the sick call ranger in basic since I couldn't run for shit and every attempt at sprinting had my leg joints cracking like a damn eggshell.

Really good example. There are real world consequences to this culture.

The West German military was initially composed of a back bone of military professionals from the SS, and German Army. Debathification meant it couldn't work because it denied you those professionals

That's actually awesome.

That’s how we created strikes in the company (not military). About 3 times afai remember…worked like a charm each time.

Yes. And thus create situations where they fail much more efficiently, for other reasons.

Disagree businesses most certainly are able to calculate what is successful and what isn't when the armies of the world just ignore their mistakes.

@@imortalones It works that way in small companies, but any large organization that includes people who are trying to get up the career ladder will have this problem, big companies included

@@LOLHAMMER45678 -- I was listening to a rather activist investor talking about the problems with corporate leadership _(So the following is part of his professional spiel)._ He says CEOs are inherently stupid by nature because the type of person selected by corporate board-members is the always upbeat frat-house dude-bro. He's the kind of guy you constantly find downstairs, he's sitting around the common area wanting to connect with people and he will tell you exactly what you wanna hear. If you just broke up with your girl, "Oh well she's yadda, yadda, yadda so you're better off leaving her behind!" --And that's the guy who gets picked by the board to manage corporations: people who want to get along, inherently affraid of rocking the boat, and will tell you exactly what you wanna hear to keep you happy. [And of course this premise is used for publicly justifying his investor activism and hedging]

I've been a soldier, a cop, an academic, and worked in a hospital. Saw the same in ALL of these institutions.

Cultural corporate adoption and obedience to destructive anti-American globalist weapons of ideology like political correctness, promotion of transgender childhood mutilation literally decades before puberty (How can you or anyone else be certain of homosexuality when your body isn't producing adult hormones yet because you were only a toddler just 1-2 years before getting sucked in to America's federal education enforced institutionalized self-sterilization financed, promoted and encouraged by foreign and domestic globalists. Americas true enemies are intent on destroying liberty and replacing it with technologically enforced post-human feudalism that replaces all of us with machine learning, automation and robotics. It is either the technocratic elite or the American citizen that will emerge by the end of the 21st century, and permitting the foreign originating modern leftist cult of death to bring back the same unsustainably artificial socialist/communist/fascist mind rape that literally mass murdered 100+ million hastily condemned fellow countryman in places like Cambodia, China, North Korea, virtually every place the doomed theory of class struggle and the liberation of the proletariat from feudal exploitation. American liberty once restored was proven far superior to the fiction of collectivism last century. Instead of confidently embracing American style liberty in the 21st century, we bankroll Chinese communist mass murderers, wage wars with no intention of victory solely for the benefit of the military industrial complex seeking to prove their products and launder tax money at the expense of 10s of thousands of American and millions of foreign lives. If we are liberating the Ukraine, why is the UK employing depleted Uranium tank munitions? Can't the heroes willing to die for this nation see that the mission has has diverged from their interests? I think it would be a whole lot smarter if America's fighting men traded centralized federal almost imperial service for their local state militias. State militias in New England founded during the French and Indian war evicted the most confident military of the time, the redcoats that were forced to flee Lexington and Concord. They nearly drove the regulars that stormed Bunker Hill in Charlestown back into the mouth of the Charles river before being forced to flee. One can serve your country at the state level with a clean conscience. Working to deprive Russia of the region of origin of the Russian people that is Ukraine, whose languages and cultures are virtually indiscernible from each other, the veritable Midwest in terms of food production for a nuclear armed nation of tundra and winters so brutal that they destroyed both the armies of Napoleon and Hitler, with growing seasons somewhere between 4-5 months out of 12. I challenge you to do some research regarding how the democrat party has capitalized on the fact that a only a sizeable minority of Ukrainians are ethnic Russian to turn the Ukraine into their own personal fiefdom of fraud using its remoteness to conceal bioweapons research, outsource American of jobs while leaking American technology, test hitherto experimental remote controlled drone weaponry, and IMHO definitively cover up their previous genocidal genetic mass murdering fraud that was COVID, kicked off by outsourcing what became illegal bioweapons research to China, the one nation in the world that actually believes they will first surpass, then replace and maybe even conquer the United States of America by or the turn of the 22nd century. Mark my words, they plan to make dollar worthless while offering CBDC digital command and controlled fake crypto currency that expires and can be frozen remotely as a mechanism of control by imposed impoverishment. The future will not be won conventionally like the past. The globalist are waging what they perceive as next generation warfare where control over the money, manufacturing, undermining of education, work ethic, sex for the purpose of reproduction, challenge necessary for skill creation, direct human interaction as opposed to fake socialist media, loyalty to America itself among the young are the targets, not armies and weapons (at least until they've sufficiently neutralized humanity as a threat). Their future armies will be manned by minimally human controlling, repairing, maintaining robots and drones. They don't care if you are rendered ineffective by suicidal obsession with gender and gayness. They need Americans fighting man wholly undermined in order to orchestrate as decisive a defeat of the human soldier so that no one questions the idea that human armies are doomed to obsolescence and defeat.

The singularity will coalesce around reams & paperclips.... So much paper & ink filed that not even light can escape

My contention for most policy training was that if it is longer than one page, few will follow it. We had 40-50 slide CBTs and my brain would zone out. I assumed that it all went through corporate legal dept so they could blame the "rogue" employee for an obscure violation in a verbose document.

So what will Congress teach the Military about telling the truth?

That's exactly what we are told by senior officers in the Russian army: " Many things they have in the US army are just on paper and non-operational."

Boy did this comment age like fine wine

yeh, "you calling me a liar?" is a pretty universal retort for a reason

Actually, that was a lie... primarily by Mason Locke Weems.

@@adaml83 I bet you're great at parties. At least at the kind of parties I like.

I am predisposed to the same ailment. It is cancerous to relationships, from personal to profession. Truth does not serve well in an empire of lies.

Someone didn't watch passed the first 5 minutes