Saturday, September 28, 2024
A comment made me pause and then brought this to mind (warning...talk about religion)
A reader made a comment about how Shia Islam views things and by extension gave their view of the killing of the Hezbollah leader.
Unfortunately you miss a major point, the whole Shia Islam is around the concept of Martyrdom.
Are you happy in your coach thinking about your next holiday or next meeting at work ?
Well, those guys are looking for martyrdom, because that would please God and assure their place on heaven.
On the contrary of Christian, who just read about the Apocalypse, they (=Muslim) see Satan in action bombing their cities.
think about that, are you kind of Christian? If four raiders would literally appear, would you care about your mortgage or about giving God a sign of how good you are?
It is a serious question. Please answer.
For them it is pretty much the second option.
do you think that killing their leader will stop them?
You are gravely mistaken.
On one thing we agree. The killing of Hezbollah's leader won't stop them. I pretty much stated the same by remarking that the second in command is usually much more radical and will dial things up to 12. What that will lead to in this fight is beyond me but this thing could have been turned off but the IDF and Hezbollah both seem to want the fight.
But ignoring all that for a second. I want to address his view on Christianity.
IN THE MODERN ERA, OUR CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN USED AS A WEAPON AGAINST BELIEVERS.
Unfortunately those that have a BASIC reading of the bible focus only on the "peace and love" but there are several passages that says that if you call yourself a Christian you're not to go gently into that night.
Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. Psalm 144:1-2
Where did I get that from? Not from the black church I attended. Not from my grandma or grandpa or mom or dad. Not from some elder in the church that served in the military.
No.
I got that from my batshit crazy senior Drill Instructor. Never asked but the dude his views on things but he wore a camo cross around his neck that you could sometimes see pop out from under his t-shirt when we were involved in some type of vigorous training.
He had us saying the portion in red like a fucking mantra. Don't care who was around. Colonel pop down to watch us do our thing? Before we hook and jab we'd say that shit. Capt walking around monitoring shit? We'd say that shit.
It was a MUCH different time. Much different Marine Corps. But it got across to me that doing God's work sometimes involves violence.
My reader at the start of this talked about how we view the end times.
Jesus himself talks about coming back as a lion, not as a lamb. Hell the bible itself talks about a massive war between good and evil.
Christianity has been bastardized, made weak and feeble and made to have no standards of behavior or consequences for evil doers.
Long story short?
If you're a true believer then you believe in fighting for what's right.
My only quibble with this killing is the unintended consequences of the action, the inevitable knock on deaths caused by continued fighting.
Won't cover it but the endless wars are of the devil himself. That we should rail against. Not the just fight but the prolonged fight for profit.
Friday, September 27, 2024
The IDF went after the Hezbollah leader. Looks like they tagged him and things are heating up.
Netanyahu was scheduled to leave for Israel tomorrow, but now he's leaving early.
Bomb shelters in Israel are being opened up.
Hezbollah has already started a missile barrage into Israel.
The US rushed forces into the area. We know about the air and especially the naval forces but the movement of ground troops especially SOCOM (Rangers, SF, SEALs & Raiders) along with probably the 82nd is less known.
Don't know if many have been following it but CENTCOM has been planning for the evacuation of civilians from Lebanon for weeks now.
Unintended or badly planned, the consequences of this thing might spiral and once again the US COULD be pulled back into fighting in the Middle East.
Sidenote. Why is hitting leadership such a thing now? When will we learn that the next guy up is ALWAYS more radical than the fool we're currently dealing with!
The threat of criminal illegals is now VERIFIED!
JUST IN: New ICE report reveals the Biden-Harris administration has let in 425,000 illegal immigrants who are convicted criminals.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 27, 2024
That is enough people to fill Michigan's football stadium 4 times.
The report says the following illegals are "roaming the country":
- 13,099… pic.twitter.com/ddq048DSFB
US Army stages missiles in the PI that can reach China....I see unintended consequences ahead...
via Defense News
The U.S. Army transported the Typhon missile system, a land-based weapon that can fire the Standard Missile-6 and the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, to the northern Philippines as part of combat exercises in April with Philippine troops and to test its deployability aboard a U.S. Air Force aircraft.
Tomahawk missiles can travel over 1,000 miles, which places China within their target range. Officials are considering keeping the missile system in the northern Philippines up to April next year, when U.S. and Philippine forces are scheduled to hold their annual Balikatan — Tagalog for “shoulder-to-shoulder” — large-scale combat exercises, he said.
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Chinese diplomats have repeatedly conveyed their alarm to the Philippine government, warning that the deployment of the missile system could destabilize the region.
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“China is saying that they are alarmed but that is interference into our internal affairs. They are using reverse psychology in order to deter us from building up our defensive capabilities,” Teodoro said.
“Before they start talking, why don’t they lead by example? Destroy their nuclear arsenal, remove all their ballistic missile capabilities, get out of the West Philippines Sea and get out of Mischief Reef,” Teodoro said. “I mean, don’t throw stones when you live in a glass house.”
I hope all the brains in the Pentagon are up on their history. Do you know what happened the last time we stationed missiles on the doorsteps of a potential enemy?
Yeah, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What do you think will happen when the Chinese return the favor and put missiles in Cuba, Nicaragua, or even Mexico?
We're gonna lose our shit.
The Chinese are gonna do the "what's good for the goose" jazz hands in our face.
Southern Command will become a TRUE COMBATANT COMMAND and Border Patrol will finally become truly militarized.
I have no problem with the people of the PI or Taiwan but we are beginning to do things that are jeopardizing our own security in order to protect them.
Interesting take by the US Army. Mobilize Land Power to Contain China’s Maritime Ambitions
Note. This will infuriate many of us that absolutely hate Force Design 2030 (I WILL NOT ALLOW THEM TO REBRAND THAT SUCKING PIECE OF SHIT).
via USNI
The Army has not walked away from its hard-earned lessons of the past quarter century. Amid refocusing on large-scale combat operations and employing its new multi-domain operations (MDO) doctrine, U.S. Army Pacific’s strategy seeks to empower regional allies and partners to defend their sovereignty and assert their rights under international law. Given the increasingly tumultuous security environment in the Indo-Pacific, regional militaries are rushing to bolster their capabilities—not just for war, but for operations short of war as well. Together with partner land forces, the U.S. Army is revitalizing the utility of land power as part of a larger effort to “prevail,” as Admiral Sam Paparo decrees, against China’s maritime strategy.3
Just plain wow. A well developed strategy while at the same time maintaining their traditional role? A beautiful thing to see!
Land forces are the bulk of every Indo-Pacific nation’s military, which seems uncharacteristic given the maritime geography. But land forces—including soldiers, marines, special operations forces, and other indigenous forces—historically have played decisive roles during peacetime and wartime by seizing, holding, and defending key land terrain.
Sounds like the traditional AND enduring role of the United States Marine Corps don't it. Unfortunately its a role that has been walked away from!
The U.S. Army’s MDO doctrine explores the role of land forces in maritime environments, emphasizing the need for integrated planning, the critical nature of land areas in a maritime environment, and the determinative outcomes only land forces can provide by controlling key terrain.8 Informed by this outlook, U.S. Army Pacific is applying land-based capabilities in novel ways. These involve not only mobile land-based assets capable of sinking ships, but also terrestrial sensors, high-altitude balloons, deep-sensing platforms, and upgrades to the Army watercraft fleet.
So the US Army does the rapid deployment/crisis response thing, they do the sustained land combat thing, the cyber warfare thing, anti-air (aircraft/missiles) and now they're doing the land based sea denial thing...a thing the USMC sold its sole to do.
Read it all here, but how long can a service survive if its sole reason for being is as a Stand-In-Force that is so big it will be found, fixed and destroyed in detail while SOCOM does the same thing and aren't even seen?
3rd AA Bn. hosts AAV sunset ceremony...Photos by Cpl. Anita Ramos
Note. Mark my words on this one. The USMC will miss this vehicle and regret not either aggressively modernizing it OR acquiring a true amphibious assault vehicle replacement. I didn't put it together at the time but the idea that the (then) Marine Personnel Carrier could adequately flex into the Amphibious Combat Vehicle was always a sad joke. Do a quick comparison of the hull design of everyother amphibious vehicle designed for ship to shore usage and you'll see what I mean. The ACV is a temp replacement. When the Marine Corps INEVITABLY goes back to doing amphibious assaults you'll see the ACV have a pathetically short service life.
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