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ramrodd · 4 years ago

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How is it that Trumpists blind themselves to his inadequacies and fearful shortcomings?

A response to Tracy Fong, retired lifer: if it is a rational choice, it is criminal in nature. Otherwise, it is impossible to adequately insult Trumpists voters.

COMMENTARY:

Once upon a time, I wanted to grow up to be a lifer like my dad, so you should not construe that nomeclature as an insult. I began a deliberate preparation for a 30 year career with the Green Berets in 1962 after listening to Douglas MacArthur’s valedictory at West Point live on the old Monitor network that became PBS. I got to Vietnam in 1970, just after the 4th Infantry Division had withdrawn from Cambodia and Nationa Guard troops had gunned down 4 white protestors in Ohio and cops killed 2 black protestors at Jackson State.

As an ROTC cadet, I had lived through 4 years of the pissing contest between the left-wing, anti-war draft dodgers of the SDS and the right wing pro-war draft-dodgers associated with William F. Buckley’s YAF and my only reaction was that I was suprised that it took so long for white boys and girls began to get gunned down by the National Guard. White troops and local cops had been gunning down black folks in places like Watts and Detroit and DC since 1963, just like in Minneapolis, today, but white folks don’t like gunning down white folks and what happened at Kent State was an accident waiting to happen and Jackson State was business as ususal.

As an Army brat, I generally avoided civilians growing up. In Germany, it was actively discouraged. My dad was Comptroller for USAUER in Heidelberg just at the time of the Hungarian Revolution and we lived with suitcases packed for a 1 hour evacuation order if the ball went up and Soviet tanks began their advance along the Austrian autobahn. This whole cultural warfare crap from the 60s is school yard shit these people have been squabbling over on campus since before The Great Gatsby was published. And in Hampton VA, as a white person you were either a genteel or rabid white supremacist or you were a white nigger lover. Not counting the black community, of course. So, I just stayed away from civilians in Germany for command purposes and in Hampton and at IU out of moral distaste.

I was locked and loaded for fun, travel and adventure when I got to Vietnam, Plan A running just as planned and there was a brisk little battle taking place at Camp Eagle just south of the DMZ, so it looked like I’d get a chance to play soldier in the big leagues. And then I encountered a senior officer my dad’s age and rank who had the same crypto-Nazi cognitive organization as Mike Pompeo and Tom Cotton and I was scared out of a military career in the blink of an eye. It it helps to take any sting there may accrue from being categorized as a “lifer”, I wimped out of a military career.

I didn’t have a Plan B, but it was important to separate from active service as quickly as possible to avoid staining my dad’s service with whatever disaster awaited me in Army politics, moving forward. I had been radicalized in that same blink of an eye and I knew as surely as Doan’s Little Liver Pills I was destined for some spectacular act of insubordination that would make Billy Mitchell’s demonstration of the efficacy of aviation against battleships seem completely rational. Which, of course, it was.

The short version is that what I have been doing since then has become Plan B. My dad invented Tradoc and was the project officer at DSCPER/CONARC for the reorganization of the Army from the geographical organization of CONARC to the functional structures of FORCECOM-Tradoc-MATCOM. Dad used the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars as the model for Tradoc as a military think tank to complete the core technologies of the Clausewitz Paradox anticipated by George Marshall’s 1942 reforms.

He began raising me to matriculate at the US Army Command and General Staff College around 1980 during a Thanksgiving family road trip to Valley Forge. My understanding of mass production, the Springfield Armory, Baron von Stuebin and contingency planning originate from that trip. My concept of scale was altered forever when dad described the planning that went into the 82nd Airborne’s presence at Los Angeles during the Watt’s riots included the soft-ball equipment for recreation during the “wait” part of “Hurry up and Wait” phase of all military operations.

In 1965, my dad told me, casually, while we were working on my motorcycle, that the military mission in Vietnam was a battle of attrition against the Soviet economy by proxy. He didn’t tell me, but I’ve come to understand that Westmoreland was selected to run MAC-V to produce body counts in order to taunt the Soviets to match the moral sacrifice of their godless commie cocksucker comrades in lockstep towards their common Marxist future with the material support for the battle the Soviets couldn’t afford to sustain. The object of the exercise was to bleed the Soviet economy white, which happened. As a consequence of this strategy, the Soviet Union is no more.

That is not the common wisdom of the Oliver Stone version of Vietnam that you share with Hillary Clinton. My version of Vietnam is that the military performed with perfect subordination to its civilian masters in Vietnam and continues to do so as you read this post. The military is not the problem. There are problems in the military that reflect cultural distortions being generated by Newt Gingrich’s political strategy, but the military doesn’t need my help in fixing their issues. Army Family Team Building is just one example of Tradoc correcting something that got fucked up in the Army community because of the reforms based on the Harvard Business model that Robert MacNamara imposed on the Pentagon, generally. Army Family Team Building has been an ESSENTIAL force multiplier since 1994 to keep the Army Strong strong during the extended disaster of the Iraq invasion and the cosmic operational incompetence of the neo-con political operatives responsible for the management of the occupation and whatever “Democracy building” may have been envisioned.

The paradox is that Operation Iraqi Freedom was a war crime, but the guilty parties begin and end with the political agenda associated with the crypto-Nazi cognitive organization of the Conservative coalition that has dominated the GOP since 1981 with the Reagan personality culture and endorsed the treason Donald John Trump* committed to get elected as a rational element of the lie, cheat and steal “Art of the Deal” crime family business model currently guiding national policy by voting as a block to “aquit”.

I voted for Nixon before I went to Vietnam and I voted for him when I got back. As a direct result of Nixon-Brezhnev Detente, I became involved in a US-Soviet venture capital enterprise organized to make me as filthy rich as Elon Musk. In 1975, that was Plan B. Nixon’s design for airline de-regulation envisioned a rational commerical passenger through-put system as a strategic system to sustain an organic response to a global state of general warfare, the so-called two oceans strategy. One of the characteristics of this through-put system was scheduled service to small communities, which required a continuum of operational equipment from DC-3’s to 747s based on potential demand.

The venture capital project I became involved in 1975 proposed to manufacture the Soviet YaK-40 airframe in Youngstown Ohio, hang a bunch of America gizmos and value addeds to it (including Union labor) and deliver it to American communter operators at about a third of the price of a comparable American design. The R&D on this was worth about $1 billion and we got it for $100 million. FedEx had reserved the first 30 aircraft for its fleet to supplement the Falcon 20 jets they were flying. We were consultants to the FedEx public offering in 1977 and I provided the FAA Forecast Branch the language they needed to rationalize the certification of FedEx as a FAR 25 operator Fred Smith needed so he could fly 737s and take his company to the NYSE.

All that is to say that I began dealing with the Soviets in 1975 on a purely capitalist basis and developed a relationship with their Foreign Trade Offices, AeroExport and Licensentorg, that has provided me with a continuing insight into the Russian political arena generally more nuanced than the common wisdom of, say, Condeleezza Rice and Susan Rice or Stephen Cohen, for example.

In order to do business with the Soviets, you dealt with their Foreign Trade Offices and their contracting proceeded from letters of understanding. I was the assistant to a guy who had installed the first IBM turn-key data center just outside of Moscow in 1973 or so and was something of a genius in that sort of project managment. The Soviets needed to dot every i and cross every t before they concluded a contract and Dale knew exactly how to do that and to deliver on time and budget on that basis. I was not a negotiator at any point but we proceeded towards the ultimate prize based on a common understanding of what needed to be negotiated and what we could do on our side to work around their limitations.

I left the project when we diverged on the way forward in regards to financial structures and union participation, but the project was perfectly viable without me because of the Soviet content. At the time. Bill Lear was building the Canadair at about 5 times the drive-away price and for an executive market. I just didn’t want to take the risk my boss proposed. And then, Afghanistan gummed up the works.

The point is, there was a process for dealing with the Kremlin that Donald John Trump was never willing to adopt. His whole method of contracting was to get a general agreement to move forward on a project and then suck as much front end cash out of his partners as he could for his personal use with the expectation to going back in and demanding more financing for the actual development project.

In 1986, when he turned to Moscow as a potential source of financing, I told my relations in the FTO’s that his business model was just short of a pure flim-flam, but he could actually develop flashy real estate that could serve the Soviet glasnos and peristroika transition from Soviet Marxism to something resembling the Free Enterprise Marxism of Vietnam, presently. It is useful to understand the impact on the morale of NYC that Trump Tower had, which was the intent of the Carter administration when they backed The Equitable with the the guarantees they needed to finance the project. I was looking for capital at the same time Donald John Trump* was looking to finance Trump Tower and the FedEx IPO had sucked all the liquidity out of the markets and it was the time of Stagflation Ford and Carter had inherited from the end of the Vietnam war.

As I understand it, that was about the time you started your career in the All Volunteer Army.

Trump Tower was financed by the Nixon-Moynihan-Carter Affirmative Action agenda and it had a marvelous effect on the Big Apple. The effects of the boost in the sense of community and public pride paid off big time on 911 and after. It’s been paying off in this pandemic. So, I was fully aware of the qualities Donald John Trump could have brought to Gorbachev, and the Kremlin, if he could have found the self-discipline to do business the way the Kremlin did business.

Donald John Trump* has never done a deal with the Kremlim, which is why the Mueller Report accurately reported that there was no collusion between President Putin and Donald John Trump in regards to any Russian intervention in the 2016 election. In fact, I had pointed this out to various parties connected with the Mueller investigation, generally, and in regards to General Michael Flynn and Michael Cohen. Michael Flynn’s sin was the same as John McCain’s with the Keating 5; they both misunderstood the qualities of “Honor” embraced by the business community are not the same as the “Duty, Honor, Country” imperatives of republican service. This difference in the the civilian and military understanding of “Honor’ provides the dramatic tension of “Othello”. You reflect a similar misapprehension common to lifers everywhere of these qualities of “Honor” in Donald John Trump* in regards.

After Gorbachev pulled the plug on the Soviet Union and Yeltsin began to implement his misguided “desocialization” reforms, the Kremlin no longer controlled the franchise on business in Russia as the Oligarchs looted the commonwealth in the name of what GOP Conservatives like to call “Privatization” and took over public assets as private property. A direct consequence of this “Privatization” was the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant, which was a joint venture of the Trump Organization and the Moscow Oligarchs associated with the business activities of Paul Manafort and whomever Rudy Guiliani has been flogging for dirt on Hunter Biden.

Putin had nothing to do with the staging of the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant, as the Mueller Report reflects. That was Part A of the Mueller Report. Part B is all about Donald John Trump*s involvement with his partners in the 2013 Moscow Miss Universe Pageant going forward, stuff he cannot be indicted on as POTUS.

Giving Donald John Trump* the full benefit of the doubt, he was tricked into committing treason to get elected by his Moscow partners in the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant by a classic KGB recruitment ploy of moral compromise when they hacked the DNC and gave him the analytics from Hillary’s campaign which he needed to game the Electoral College. The issue isn’t whether he needed them or not: the issue is, he accepted them and bragged about it immediately after the election.

And every Republican but Mitt Romney voted to endorse his treason by acquittal.

One of the ways I can tell when a lifer is main-lining the Kool Aid of the All Volunteer mythology that the reason why Vietnam got so fucked up was because of the dope smoking, long-haired, hippy-freak draftees and Vietnam vets when he gently, yet kindly, suggests that I have a lot of baggage and/or I’m off my meds.

As a retired officer, you are on the wrong side of history. As a serving officer, your loyalty was to the Constitution and subordinate to the civilian leadership, but that status has changed. Donald John Trump* and his clown show are fucking up by the numbers on virtually everything they touch and, in terms of COVID-19, lack the imagination to stand up the national test, trace and treat program South Korea implemented at the first indication of the problem: if he had had the wit to just do that, the chances are the death toll, nationally, from COVID-19 would have been less than 1000 and America would be well on its way to opening the NFL season pretty much as usual by Labor Day. Everything these people touch, these Conservatives. turns to shit.

Let me expand this Conservative crises just a bit. In 1970, Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan collaborated on a legislative package designed to transform the Military Industrial Complex to the Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix at the core of the Green New Deal. This package is known popularly as “Affirmative Action” and, in connection with Nixon’s diplomatic aspirations, was intended to create the infrastructure necessary to sustain the economic trajectory required to support a moon colony for the next 100 years. If either Carter or GHW Bush had been re-elected, we would have had a NASA-Soyuz base on the moon by 2001, just like the movie.

The only thing standing in the way of that objective is Reaganomics and the Conservative coalition that has dominated the GOP since 1981 and is determined to blow up Affirmative Action and replace it with the Free Market Fascism of Cuba before Castro and to run America like Las Vegas but without the moral compass and progressive vision of Bugsy Siegel.

You need to understand that your circumstances are being buffered by your pension and your access to health and dental care generally more or less identical to POTUS and unavailable to most Americans. Your self-righteous proposal to tear up the “bipartisan relief check” originates from the same moral vacuum that informs your misappreshension that the campaign promises Donald John Trump* claims to have fulfilled had any but the most venal purposes behind them and that there is anything he has proposed worth supporting but has anything but the most casual relatiohship with reality. What may seem resonable, if not rational, with a guaranteed pension and medical benefits ain’t nearly so apparent without them.

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monicasharmalove · 5 years ago

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Amid coronavirus lockdown, steel demand pick-up off to a slow start

Demand for domestic steel seems to be reviving in some way, with end users taking the first steps towards restarting operations, but a return to normalcy might still be a long way off.

In the past couple of days, a number of automakers, including Maruti Suzuki, Hero MotoCorp, Mercedes Benz India, Eicher Motors, TVS Motor, and Isuzu Motors India, have announced they have got clearance from the government to resume operations. Construction activities, too, have resumed, albeit in a staggered manner. In some pockets there is also demand for yellow goods. No doubt, between Lockdown 1.0 and 3.0, there has been an improvement in demand, but steel companies view this as too little.

Typically, construction accounts for 60-62 per cent of steel end-use and automobile 15-16 per cent. The demand that is coming back is mostly from auto components, fabricators and some government projects, say steel producers. But they point out that it's not just a restart of activity at end-user level that is required; the value chain, which has completely collapsed, needs to be reconstructed for a significant pick-up in demand.

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS) has restarted many of its production units, including COREX, Conarc, hot strip mill, compact strip mill to ramp up production. Production at blast furnace, too, has been ramped up in line with demand.

But a further increase in production is riddled with challenges. A spokesperson for AM/NS India cited normalising supply chain and production ramp-up at customer end as major challenges.

Officials at Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) said things were starting to move. Customer meets were being held. But most of the demand currently was from government segments. "Availability of labour remains a challenge," said an official.

Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) Managing Director V R Sharma pointed out that steel markets were still closed. "The MSMEs need to be allowed to function without permission."

#lockdown steel

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gopikakatzz · 6 years ago

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HOW IS STEEL PRODUCED?

Steel is a composite of iron and carbon. So the essential raw materials we require are press mineral and coal. This iron metal along with metallurgical coke delivered from coke oven are fed as raw material into the blast furnace whereby decrease process we make pig iron. These fixings, sintered material (small measured iron metal protuberances and coal) and some fluxes (lime and dololime) are also included. A contrasting option to the blast furnace course is the DRI route. The mirex process, HYL process and so on are the techniques by which wipe iron or DRI can be created. The pig iron delivered from the blast furnace is exchanged to the steel melting shop by a torpedo spoon. After this outer desulphurization might be done relying upon the prerequisite of the client and from there on the pig press is charged into LD converter/BOF. In the case of DRI, it is specifically charged into an EAF or CONARC shell and arcing is done alongside external spearing of oxygen. Pig iron contains around 93– 94% Fe, 4– 4.5% C, around 1– 1.5% Si, 1% Mn, S and P under 0.05%. In BOF; oxygen is blown through a water-chilled copper spear to bring off carbon in the scope of 0.02– 0.07% and to evacuate contaminations exhibit in the pig press by shaping SiO2, P2O5, MnO, and FeO. The arrangement of this oxides alongside CO gas advancement happens in various consecutive advances and is subject to temperature and the fractional weight kept up in the bath.

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ramrodd · 5 years ago

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What flaws in the ROTC program need to be addressed?

COMMENTARY:

I have deleted a series of responses to Mike Page’s response to his own question.

I never disagree with his ahrgument, per se, especially as far as the advantages his proposal of 2 summer camps are concerned instead of the 4 year program I went through as a liberal arts student majoring in letters and process theology.

The process theology I was getting from RTOC, you dumb fuck. Nothing personal, of course.

The 2 summer camp program he proposes is more fun. I loved summer camp. My only problem was that I had to finish my senior year and my summer camp happened just before the 1968 Democrat Convention which resulted in the police riot the SDS had been designed to create with the 1962 Porort Huron Statement.

Cause and effect. The cause was the Trotsky Insurgence process embedded in the political strategy of the anti-war people. The Trosky Insurgency process is designed to employ sedition and subversion to create the social alienation and polarization that leads to sabotage and violent revolution. The sabotage didn’t really kick in until after Kent State, but the subversion really got traction after Tet ’68 and the SDS began to develop cells recruited to infiltrate the military and professions as active agents in the overthrow of the US government.

I was a Junior at Indiana when Tet hit the campuses. I re a uniform three times a week, looking as strac as I knew how to. I had been on a drill team as a Persishing Rifle and had my dad’s example of what a lifer’s uniform is suppose to look like on the job. I was as squared=away as I could be without having mom come behind me and complete the picture.

I knew Tet was coming. I grew up around headquarters and I was as plugged into the Post Rumor Control as the CG of CONARC. I wasn’t spying: it was osmosis. I got back to campus and everything was hunky-dory, the New Hampshire primaries came off as usual and the gates had open on the run for the white House and, at that moment, not-LBJ was not even a Dark Horse.

1967 was the Summer of Love in a “if you’re going to San Francisco…” flowers in the hair kind of way and Sergeant Pepper had just come out and John McCain had just been shot down. Tet was just about to jump off the Tallihatchie Bridge with Billy Joe McAllister, but Christmas was like the German side in Stalingrad 1942: there was a certain magical thinking that maybe it all had a happy ending if we all just clapped for Tink,

Tet was not the cause of the Chicago Police Riots in 1968, the Port Huron Statement was the cause, if you have any useful acquaintance with process theology, that should be evident to you without too much deliberation, Tet was the seed crystal that set off what amounted a socially supersaturated solution, or critical mass, that had been carefully groomed by the anti-war movement to blow up somewhere, sometime. It only took 6 years to achieve that moment and if the Diem brothers hadn’t been assassinated, the Port Huron Statement would have never gotten any traction.

I watched this stuff happen during a 4 year liberal arts education I was required to attend in order to receive an ROTC commission. ROTC is a direct result of the ideal and the intent of the 2nd Amendment, that is, to ensure for the manpower and mobilization requirements of the federal mandate for the common defense in the original intent of the Founding Fathers that the American Republic would be sustained by citizen-soldiers in the Swiss-Israeli tradition. The 2nd Amendment doesn’t have shit to do with guns: it is entirely a mechanism to supply the worker-patriots to carry the guns. The Civil wWar, on both sides, and First and Second Phases of the World at War was fought by the America citizen soldier, thanks to the 2nd Amendment. My dad got his commision at Indiana. I got mine the same way. We spent 4 years in classroom engagement in the process theology of the military arts and sciences, but the most fun was the practical application of FM 22–5, twice a week.

Just for the record, FM 22–5 comes almost directly from Frederick the Great by way of von Steubin and prior to Jomini. US Army doctrine originates in Prussian staff experience, but is embellished by the French example at Yorktown and the focus on Jomini at the exclusion of Clauswitz until Marshall’s reforms beginning in 1942 and proceeding way beyond any need to reexamine the efficacy of the 4 years ROTC program. It’s not West Point. It’s not intended to be West Point. Or OCS. Or the two-summer camp ROTC program. It is, however, the same intellectual trajectory and learning curve as West Point and that trajectory, combined with the experiential data that has accumulated with the liberal arts program, ensures that the collective unconscious of the US Army is being constantly enriched by the broadest possible universe of high shooling for the dressage of the republican citizen soldier.

Here’s the thing, Mike Page, my impression of you is similar to my impression of Richard Carrier, the evangelical anti-theist and John Bolton and Dumb Ass Don: you’ve never heard a shot fired in anger.

I know you were in the combat arms, but your original profile said you went to Germany instead of Vietnam. You now cite Asia, which means you could have earned a CIB on the DMZ, but you were pretty emphatic that you never got to Vietnam.

Poor you. I wouldn’t have missed Vietnam for the world, and being in GermanY during Vietnam was like a certain kind of Purgatory for someone who had signyd up for a life of derring-do and danger, but we all served the needs of the service, so that’s like Eisenhower, who never go overseas in Phase I.

Vietnam wasn’t a great war, but it was the only war we had.

The other thing I sense in you, Mike Page, is the resentment of an OCS officer without a college degree, going through, for the country-club commission I earned over 4 years and a summer camp. If you are serious about producing the best possible officer to lead soldiers against fire, you should know that everything that happened before you got that rank don’t mean nothing once you get it: how you got there ain’t important. It’s that you showed up and stuck around is all the military requires to begin the process of becoming all you can be.

See, here’s the thing, Mike Page: growing up in the Army, all the chaplains I knew had been combat veterans until I left the Army in 1971. Generally, I’ve done what I can to avoid the military since I left: the prospect of spending time with some lifer like you just makes my skin crawl, even if they have been shot at. But you and Bolton and Richard Carrier share an attitude I never encountered among the chaplains I have known. I saw the same thing being directed at John Kerry by the Swift Boaters and it was an attitude I ran into in the corporate culture from Vietnam-era National Guard pukes, who resented the fact that they had to keep their hair short during a time when getting laid and short hair were not the norm and they blamed Viet vets for their decision to pursue their business careers and not be labeled a long-haired, dope-smoking, anti-war hippy freak in a culture of pro-war business executives. It’s like the military officers who conceived and implemented the All Volunteer Military: they blamed the draftee-citizen solder for the way Vietnam turned out and that it was actually their idea in the first place.

So, if this idea of reforming ROTC represents a big career move for you, my advice to the rest of the world is to ignore it.

There were two coalitions in the Army senior officers during the McNamara tenure in the Pentagon: those who were committed to Marshall’s reforms and what my dad called “Nut Heads”, that is, political opportunists who abandoned the needs of the service in favor of their own ambitions and aligned with the McNamara Whiz Kids and his reforms based on the Harvard management model. These guys were in charge when Tet blew up in LBJ’s face and he dropped out of the race. From 1968 until I got back from Vietnam, these guys were like a Marx brothers meet the 3 Stooges, running around, trying to avoid becoming collateral damage. One of these guys scared me out of a military career in Vietnam, someone with the same crypto-Nazi cognitive organization as Mike Pompeo, Mike Espry and Tom Cotton.

And you. In response to your last reponse in our dialogue, to wit,

>>>Mike Page: “If you had an idea, Tom, it would overwhelm that single brain cell you were born with,….”<<<

You are a retrograde pre-Tet ’68 Nut Head. And the All Volunteer Military seems to be just totally stuffed you guys.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTARY:

How should the U.S. have handled Communist aggression in Vietnam?

You really don’t know shit about much of anything, do you, Mike Page.

Both Korea and Vietnam sit on the trade routes from the oil in the Persian Gulf to Japan and Taiwan, for one thing, and that oil was the reason for our presence on the Pacific Rim and, in no small measure, a factor in Japan’s vision of their Great Co-Prosperity Sphere that compelled the decision to attack Pearl Harbor.

You’ve presented the SDS version of the Oliver Stone version of Vietnam. The actual version is presented, below.

From 1954 until 1962, the MAG-V mission in the Republic of Vietnam was essentially the same as the K-MAG mission in the Republic of Korea: peace keeping and nation building, Both nations were the result of a negotiated partition and, in the case of the Korean Penisula, a cease fire that persists. This was part of George Kennan’s theory of containment and reflected Marshall’s manifesto delivered at Harvard in 1947. The efficacy of this mission can be measured by the present success of the Republic of Korea, and the continuing K-MAG mission.

In 1962, the commie cocksuckers in Hanoi determined to invade RVN and signaled their intent to that end by tossing frags into Saigon movie theaters. I had friends, other Army brats, living in Saigon at the time, and MAG-V evacuated all the dependents in 24 hours in order to clear the deck for general combat and to avoid a reprise of the Phillipines.

After the assassination of the Diem brothers in 1963, America lost the moral legitimacy of its nation building mission and made it impossible to “win” the battle MAG-V was transformed into MAC-V with the mission to conduct a battle of attrition against the Soviet economy by proxy, the subsequent enterprse being a battle in the larger Cold War.

To this end, General Westmoreland was essentially assigned the task of creating the blood sacrifice of the commie cocksuckers on the field of battle that would compel the Kremlin to continue to commit the material support to their ideological clients that would ultimately bankrupt the Soviet economy, which had not begun to fully recover from WWII.

In the final analysis, Vietnam became a contest between Marxism and the Harvard Business model and Marxism won, but, in the larger context, Vietnam was for the Kremlim what Borodino was for Napoleon: a battle they couldn’t afford to fight and a battle they couldn’t afford to lose.

As a direct result of the American War in Vietnam, the Soviet Union is no more. The fact of the matter is, the Domino Theory did, in fact, manifest, regionally, but was contained by what amounted to entropy.

Now, in reference to my commentary on your ROTC essay (Tom Wilson’s answer to What flaws in the ROTC program need to be addressed?) the mistake that the “Nut Heads” in the Pentagon that aligned with McNamara’s agenda made was to NOT proceed at the same time as the “Search and Destroy” element of the post-Diem brothers strategy with the other two legs of a Clauswitzian solution, that is, to equip the RVN military prodigously and to begin the process of “Vietnamization” on pretty much the same model as the ROK Army that served with such distinction in RVN.

As far as providing aid to all of Vietnam, it’s useful to remember that 1954 was the year of the McCarthy Hearings and people were losing their careers for any hint of political intercourse with commie cocksuckers anywhere in the world and Ho Chi Minh was a commie cocksucker who had just supervised the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu. The long haired anti-war hippy freaks of the SDS, and Noam Chomsky, might have found the prospect of providing economic aid to ALL OF VIETNAM appealing, but, well, in 1954, General Ridgeway wasn’t as sanguine of the prospect of success nor inclined to propose the project in the first place.

Just for the record, my self-esteem is perfectly secure. I’ve been dealing with lifers like you since I got off the Freedom Bird in 1971. Just the idea of being around lifers like you makes my skin crawl, but it’s not an impediment to my happiness and personal fulfillment.

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