International Security: Past Lessons and Projections for the Future | Battlegrounds w/ H.R. McMaster

[@bcz3534]

Wonderful conversation, thank you both for your service & for uploading the content!

[@ayjay10016]

Finally Lesson 10 Not Discussed: How to stop Intelligence set-ups of various stripes from undermining military long term objectives for their short term gains and their turf wars within the coalition in particular and allies in general.

[@Sam-nl6fr]

Fascinating. Thank you both

[@ayjay10016]

Lesson 4 Not Discussed: How to prevent political leadership from undermining morale of troops by declaring a deadline for end of mission.

[@ayjay10016]

Lesson 6 Not Discussed: Troops not held to account for evading RsOE and causing loss of life and property to locals due to reckless or negligent behaviour, will never be able to adhere to mission that is at heart a humanitarian mission i.e. the Nation -building.

[@anthonyholland8549]

My thanks and compliments to the technical staff. I've been enjoying a lot of Hoover videos and the high qualify of the audio in particular is a pleasure, whether I'm trying to hear while somewhere noisy like the gym or cycling, or trying to listen quickly at 2.5x speed, it really makes a difference if the original audio if captured this well. High standards, well done.

[@carlbyronrodgers]

Interesting and informative.

[@ayjay10016]

Lesson 3 Not Discussed: How to prevent glory seeking commanders from hijacking the real mission and especially the ways to insulate the fighting troops from this top-level corruption.

[@ayjay10016]

Lesson 2 Not Discussed: How to quickly course correct once a large body of troops on ground is unable to achieve results which on planning board were assumed achievable without any significant snag. In short when the troops behaviour is counter-intuitive to perceived expectations of the commander, how to locate the malfunction and fix it.

[@ayjay10016]

`Lesson 1 Not Discussed: Commanders failing to comprehend how their forces of the size of Div+ are actually going to behave on ground in relation to mission given. Russians were shocked to experience the same. Large body of men are most unpredictable to be forecast efficiency-wise in achieving missions unless their commanders have a finger on the cultural pulse of the troops while they are still at peace stations.

[@user-tj9bg6tz2p]

i'm a former soldier turned hostile-environment contractor. I'm always struck listening to Army people talking about how amazing armies are when operating in other people's countries. Perhaps if we'd sent fewer soldiers and more engineers, economists, agriculture experts, and doctors the outcome may have been different

[@MFJoneser]

The fights that happen between Americans only prepare us for fights outside our borders, as long as we remember our unbreakable bonds of shared fate, kinship, history, legacy, tradition, and visions of the future

[@ayjay10016]

Lesson 8 Not Discussed: Commanders who when unable to satisfy their hubris of being the ultimate gods of war start operations like Kill/Capture and Night Time Raids just to cause pain and humiliation to civilians whose main crime is that they shared the same DNA as the insurgents.

[@pinkbike0217]

Thanks

[@briankepner7569]

We need to revisit the Minsk agreement

[@eugene_dudnyk]

Who are those royal “we”? Ukrainians don’t need to revisit it, and Merkel is no longer in power to bargain russian gas in exchange for Ukrainian lives and future.

[@ayjay10016]

Lesson 9 Not Discussed: Commanders who are paper tigers with wartime philosophies like COIN, when failing to acheive mission continue to throw troops in the meat grinders just to satisfy their intellectual hubris without any intervention from their military peers or politicians.

[@ayjay10016]

Lesson 5 Not Discussed: How to prevent political leadership from undermining morale of troops by declaring that their lives matter more than achievement of mission because the politicians keep forgetting that body of troops told that the ultimate sacrifice, that is given for them, is a price too much to pay, they turn into a herd of directionless sheep.

[@mikemace8382]

japan is a free country...and germany and iraq and afghanistan. we do not own them. we may have some influence...importantly we do not own them. many times have...all of us have disagreed. the catch is, it is ok to disagree. move forward together, to a better world for all.

[@sweenie58]

Very educational thank you. I wonder at times of the future application of AI in battlefield stratagy/early planning. Since AI was developed a human can never win against it at chess. Since the USMC motto is "adapt and overcome" AI seems to make a very good Marine🤣

[@ayjay10016]

Lesson 7 Not Discussed: Commanders not standing up to their political masters especially when there is change of government for the sake of the troops they command or the mission at risk or millions of vulnerable folks who are looking up to them to fulfill their promises.

[@ayjay10016]

Lesson 8 Not Discussed: Commanders who can carry out operation of Withdrawal professionally knowing this too shall cause some casualties instead of running off into the horizon like scared little girls.

[@user-tj9bg6tz2p]

army commanders, on their short-term operational tours, get too invested in short-term outcomes which bear no relation to the outcomes and timelines required by the population

[@user-tj9bg6tz2p]

and.............. who wears socks with deck shoes!!!!

[@philodonoghue3062]

Missing pivotal role of 🇹🇷 Turkey

[@Samson373]

We must change our criteria for what qualifies as an attack meriting a kinetic response or otherwise severe response. Suppose a Chinese agent -- acting under orders of the CCP -- leaves a bomb in warehouse in California and the bomb explodes, resulting in one million dollars in property damage. Now suppose a Chinese hacker in Beijing hacks a computer database in California, resulting in one billion dollars in damage. Which event is more likely to elicit a kinetic response on the part of the US? Right, the first one. Is that remotely rational? No of course not. We don't naturally respond to harms to intangible property but that is a quirk in our psychology, an evolutionary artifact. We have to think our way out of it.

[@michaeljoenks4633]

Very interesting how he stressed the danger of Russia. Mr Obama believed Putin was not a threat. Seems Mr Obama was wrong.

[@Telluwide]

Not discussed: The Afghan President fleeing the country with 2 helicopters filled with US taxpayers cash looted from the Afghan Central Bank. Half discussed: China providing Baidu's technology to places like Kenya and warning that its planting the seeds of surveillance, yet ignoring the fact that the UK is the most government surveilled society in the world, unless of course you consider all those CCTVs you see everywhere, for the public good. Quite a "rich" discussion from two defenders of "freedom"....

[@titaniumskunkogkush4365]

These guys have only experience the colors red, white and blue. They don't experience any other colors. They think stability comes out the barrel of a gun. They don't understand what bridges, drinking water, roads, hospital, economic opportunities, and schools bring to a developing country. It's just that they see the world from a different perspective.

[@lesliecunliffe4450]

Carter's representation of Brexit as influenced by external agents has been shown to be nonsense on stilts. So in what sense is his expertise worthy of that name?

[@marksky9724]

You mean like the us DOD global remote weapon that's been in use since 1980s....different formats for different people....based on an AI platform....for example Diane Reidy 2012 stenographer removed from house of reps senate floor for yelling at every one.... I have a message....God has woken me up for two weeks at mid night...I have a message....that was one format....another format is designed to take average, productive, and outstanding individuals and break them apart and get them to become criminals and terrorists....and to make it look natural so if any psychologist investigates it can be explained via sequence of events or family health background....for example up and coming district prosecutor Myron May who became the florida university shooter in about one year, or Aaron Alexis the navy yard shooter, of Beatrice bijoux Florida attorney who ran over market customers, or Mr McGuire who was arrested in Kentucky known as alien shooter, or Stephen Marlow who killed his neighbors in nov2022 for in quote mind control....another format is used to remotely monitor scientists globally and they nor their govs will know they are remotely linked for life...the us gov uses Intel cia and other low level agencies and techniques so other countries think those are the methods but the that is a low tech cover to cover and hide this hi tech weapon...this weapon is how you keep people angry and keep them angry and to instill explosive anger so they drag their leaders into the streets and behead them....take off their heads....sounds familiar doesn't it? That's right this weapon was used in every color revolution globally....it is scalable and globally on an AI platform...all automated....this is a USA gov globally weapon....currently global experiments are being conducted in every nation, ethnic background, and socio economic background which can last from one year until the target dies...?the USA gov is responsible....remember Havana syndrome? That was a USA gov psyops program or dis info program..??this same AI attacked us state department employees and those employees reported what they experienced....this served two objectives....the reports made it look low tech and thus allowed us state department the ability to shift blame and all responsibility to china and Russia without raising any eyebrows....have no doubt this is hi tech and global...the us gov is conducting global illegal experiments while actively hiding it, covering it up, and trying to use useful idiots and other means to spread dis information....USA gov is stealing all other countries research....the us gov is an enemy to all..

[@meinking22]

There is a lot of insight in this conversation, however this idea that the West is not "authoritarian" is absurd. Western governments may not be as extreme as China, in some cases they were worse (see Australia), the largely engineered crises of COVID and Climate Alarmism have been bellwethers for hamfisted authoritarian public policies that would make the U.S. Founding Fathers roll in their grave.

[@DieFlabbergast]

You obviously have absolutely no sense of proportion. The idea that the level of authoritarianism displayed by any Western government is remotely comparable to what the Putin and Xi regimes have done and are doing is simply risible. You have NO conception of how authoritarian Russia and China are.

[@elados6954]

What about what was done to south East Asia when Veitnam was the deception ?

[@Getssumfreedom]

Yeah communism was a deception lol

[@stephensipe5405]

Democracies are like a willow tree bending in high winds. Authoritarian countries can look like mighty oaks. But in a high wind, their branches break or even the whole tree gets uprooted. The countries outside of the Democratic West and Authoritarian East have problems they have to confront. From Mexico to Argentina, Latin Americans have NEVER resolved their own local rivalries and jealousies. In Africa, people groups are not reflected in national boundaries. These 2 areas have unrelated solutions. For example, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean where possible, should work with the US and Canada to replace China as a manufacturing area for North America. South America has to find ways to build better intra-Continent trade. If they worked harder to build this trade, exports would be less important. In Africa, elitist European educations have created a class of leaders always trying to ram a square peg in a round hole. Instead, a Balkans solution of growing countries smaller, then reconstituting them as States in a Federal society, maybe similar to the EU. This sounds painful and hard. Nevertheless, South Africa may be an example of how to evolve a multi-ethnic/multi-cultural society in a mostly democratic framework. It already has a stable currency. Should it absorb Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Namibia as part of a peaceful regional growth, the vision of what I have in mind. In other areas of Africa, like West Africa, you have issues of local jealousies similar to Central America. However, if organized around Nigeria with highway and rail construction coordinating infra-area trade, it is possible to see an evolution in this area. Having a West African “NATO” should not occur until some of the economic infrastructure is in place. The OAU is too large to create the framework. It has to be local, preferably without European involvement.