Is Your Hobby Sports or War?

Is Your Hobby Sports or War?

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.--Napoleon Bonaparte

Is Your Hobby Sports or War?

Most people would laugh at that question and then start talking about the favorite sports team that they love to watch. Many memorize the statistics about different teams and are face-painted fanatics about it. Some men and women are, in a way, soulless. They have no ideology, or strong political belief system, beyond sports. As long as they can watch over-paid mercenary athletes playing some sport, they don’t care about the immorality or stupidity of investing so much time and money in the fruitless obsession with something that is meaningless.

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, 'What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?" -Napoleon

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors. Yes, sports are meaningless, they will never influence the future of our families, ourselves, our nation or impinge upon the preservation of our freedom. They are simply the bread and circuses of Roman times, brought forward to divert today’s hyperactive, prescription-drugged masses towards focusing upon highly paid voyeurism. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

Americans are taught from the first grade to be sports voyeurs, to watch “their superiors” play a sport and to care about it. Later such training causes adults to fork over a lot of money to watch other men and women play.

This author realized the irony of such behavior as he came up in football, playing high school and college ball, while wondering why so many people seemed to care one way or another, as they got drunk and screamed for their favorite team.
In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.There is another hobby that will fortify a man in good times or bad. It is meaningful, inexpensive and provides a path towards self actualization.

Napoleon once said: “Waiting in the shadows, throughout the world, are hard men prone to military solutions. All they need is the right vehicle and that spark of leadership which could catapult them to bloody destruction and pillage of the corrupt establishment.”

The study of war gives a man all that and more. We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

War and its bastard son espionage, decides the future of us all. It is an eternal verity that simultaneously shapes both the past and future. Unlike what the corrupt fanatics whine about peace (peace gives them a chance to rob workers), war is omnipresent and there is no peace.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

War (conflict) is eternal, so it behooves us to learn all we can about it. If we do not, we will someday be victimized by those who study war.

The stronger never retreat, they dictate the terms which the weak obey.

Studying war is not so much the becoming an expert with all weapons. A man who is a good pistol and rifle shot as well as being handy with a long knife or axe is enough. Later he can learn the art of the symphony played by that famous quartet composed of: the light machine gun, the RPG, the light mortar and the sniper rifle.
A man is not dependent upon his fellow creatures, when he does not fear death.
The study of war and espionage should focus upon how it works and how to lead it.

The study of war and espionage by common men is necessary so that governments will realize that their populace is capable if fighting a people’s war if they have to.

If you and I understand how to organize and employ Warfighting and espionage methods at the three levels of war (tactical, operational and strategic) then we will be respected more because we will know what is going on.

If we don’t like what’s going on, we will be able to gather intelligence on it and use nonviolent methods to change it.

If we have to, we can organize and lead armies and intelligence agencies, if we study war.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, national foreign policy must shape the incidents.

By the way, the study of war for its own sake is much more interesting than sports because they are more realistic ways to measure success and failure. For example, our enemies can kill our biggest tanks with RPGs that cost about fifty dollars to produce and each round costs a few dollars. The latest “shoulder-fired” American version of the same antitank weapon, the Javelin, costs $200,000+ per-unit and $100,000+ per-shot or round. (The Pentagon is looking at a “cheap” Spike anti-tank weapon that costs a mere $5,000 per unit and $5,000 per round. In the Pentagon’s frame of reference, each weapon should cost at least one tenth of the target it kills. Never mind that such thinking is crazy.)

If you know such facts from studying war, you will be affected and mesmerized by both shocking stupidity and glorious gallantry. Every soldier carries a marshal's baton in his pack.-Napoleon

As a student of war, you will begin to realize several things: (1) America’s generals and politicians are making stupid mistakes. (2) You will then start asking questions. How can they justify wastage? How are they trained? Are they stupid? Crooked, incompetent, or traitorous? (3) In answering those questions you will discover that many of the people in government are perverted, criminal, incompetent and traitorous. That includes America’s top generals and law makers. (4) When faced with the realization of the truth, you will be better able to deal with your responsibilities as a citizen and preserver of freedom for your family and their future. (5) Eventually you may even choose to quit being a serf and stand up for what you believe. (There are many irregularities in public elections, which we could correct if we studied political warfare, for example.)

Remember , gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.-Napoleon

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds. I have made all the calculations, fate will do the rest.

Most Americans know nothing about the: suitability, orientations, biases or signs of incompetence and betrayal, found among US generals and within intelligence agencies. They depend on media “journalists for that.

There are several reasons why media journalists will always misinform the American public: (1) They are ideologically biased to the left and everything they will report will be slanted according to the group of prejudices all leftists share. (2) They provide information that is shallow and skewed because their sources are frequently anti-American. (3) According to content evaluations of the reports of American journalists on military and espionage affairs, journalists know almost nothing about how either system works or should work. (4) "Journalists" have no frame of reference for evaluating whether any set of behaviors, military or espionage, is beneficial or harmful to, the interests of the taxpayers.

Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers' perils with the treasures they amass. --Napoleon

The good news is that American citizens no longer have to depend on journalists, politicians or leftist authors to obtain distorted information. They can obtain sound, frame-of-reference, how-to oriented e-book information for both military and espionage affairs.

When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!--Napoleon

A frame of reference is a set of guidelines for evaluating either espionage or military decisions (a useful set of ideas, conditions, or assumptions that determine how something should be approached, perceived, or understood).

Students of war must find books that are based on an identified frame of reference that is useful when examining the decisions of generals and politicians who are paid by public taxes to represent the majority’s best interests.
Governments keep their promises only when they are forced to, or when it is to their advantage to do so
.In order for a person to understand what is going on, enjoy that understanding and participate in exciting scenarios, the study of war and espionage is a much more gratifying and beneficial hobby than sports.

Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses. Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice. Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Note: All Napoleonic Quotes are in red.