TactiSMART 004: "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff"? Says Who?
Perhaps the most prominent account of the employment of edged weapons during the conflict was during the battle of Gettysburg, when Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, commanding 20th Maine Volunteers, was ordered by his brigade commander, Brig. Gen. Strong Vincent, to hold at all cost the Union left flank, extreme left to be exact, on Little Round Top. Arriving by forced march, the 15th Alabama, led by Colonel William Oates, made repeated assaults against the dogged Mainers only to be repulsed. Low on ammunition, casualties mounting, and without reserves to reinforce his position, Chamberlain, now fearing his line would either be rolled back or his position would simply be flanked by the relentless Confederates, ordered his men to "Fixed bayonets!" During the fog of war, however, there was initial confusion from the Mainers. Chamberlain, nevertheless, advanced and in piece meal his unrelenting men, with fixed bayonets, followed thus overrunning and even capturing 101 of the stunned Alabamians. Chamberlain was credited by both Union and Confederate generals alike, that if the 20th Maine had collapsed or if Oates had flanked the unit, the determined Confederates would have poured onto the Great Top and forced Meade to withdrawal his left wing, abandoning the high ground to Lee.
Oates later conceded that Col. Chamberlain's skill and persistency and the great bravery of his men saved Little Round Top and the Army of the Potomac from defeat. Because if one more Confederate regiment had stormed the far left of the Army of the Potomac with the 15th Alabama, "..we would have completely turned the flank and have won Little Round Top, which would have forced Meade's whole left wing to retire." He concluded, philosophically, that "great events sometimes turn on comparatively small affairs." Chamberlain, for his heroic and selfless actions on that contested top, would later receive the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism on 2 July 1863, while serving with 20th Maine Infantry, in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for daring heroism and great tenacity in holding his position on the Little Round Top against repeated assaults, and carrying the advance position on the Great Round Top."
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UPDATE: See the "Smoking Guns" here?
Smoking Caused World Wars 1 & 2
Anti-war, German Prince/Emperor Frederick III's smoking drug addiction (low-level hedonism) killed him with lung cancer; had he instead lived, the world would NOT have lost over 100, 000, 000 lives in World War 1 and 2 and untold numbers of lives/limbs ruined.
Frederick III - German Emperor who could have Stopped the World Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIXw8WtiGjo
Smoking Caused the Floyd Riots: Flat Screen TVs Matter aka black Hedonism Matters
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/james-mattis-trump-mullen-allen-protests-white-house-constitution-police-1010164/
Knowing Allen from the USMC, his silly illogical remarks that denying rioters a public gathering is "ill-LIBERALISM" is plain old weird--liberals are HEDONISTS who TOLERATE ALL MANNER of misbehavior---not putting up with it would be right-wing fascism of immoral stoical Nazis or immoral hedonistic socialist/communists...at least get your Presidential insults right before making them, John.
If COVID19 dance club bouncer, George Floyd was NOT an immoral HEDONIST SMOKER abusing his body with that unhealthy habit, he wouldn't have gone to the convenience store to buy cigarettes instead abiding by the anti-viral spread quarantine for his and other's safety. If George Floyd were not a HEDONIST drinker, he wouldn''t have driven to the convenience-store drunk and been disorderly in public. If George Floyd was a MORAL STOIC, he would have stayed home and not had to or accidentally tried to pay for his cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. Didn't George Floyd get a STIMULUS check from the USG to tide him over during the COVID19 quarantine? If George Floyd instead of being the lazy big man who didn't think he had to live healthy (which requires some life humility) he wouldn't have been a hedonist smoker/drinker with high blood pressure/heart disease that would fail him when illegally knee-choked by bad cops. He might have withstood the choking though if he were a moral stoic he wouldn't have driven to the convenience store for cigarettes.
One more thing--his Floyd claiming he was "claustrophobic" doesn't wash--he was able to get into his privately-owned cross-over mini-SUV to drive to the convenience store, yes? Could police have sent over a pick-up truck to have him sit restrained in the open cargo area back if he really did have claustrophobia?
Police Murdering Someone DOES NOT EQUAL Looting/Murdering
The point here is the black COMMUNITY IS NOT CONDEMNING ITS CORRUPT, HEDONISTIC SUB-CRIMINAL LIFE STYLES THAT CONSTANTLY PUT THEM IN CONFLICT WITH POLICE upholding basic societal norms like abiding by curfews, not being disorderly in public, not using counterfeit money, not ruining your body by unhealthy habits like smoking/drinking.
ALL of the people rioting/looting are in the WRONG, period. 2 wrongs don't make a right. Stealing a flat screen TV is not logically or morally justified because an individual was wrongly killed by police. It does not follow. Black hedonists constantly want an excuse to loot--mob stealing because their sub-criminal, unhealthy life-style does not work within a stoical society where at least a modicum of work is required to earn a living.
How many immoral HEDONISTS longing for the chance to loot? They never read, "Thou Shalt Not Covet"?
America as a whole must face and overcome this fundamental lie that our 1787 U.S. Constitutional (USC) freedom includes sub-criminal, hedonistic self-destructive lifestyles. This idea that the USC is perfect as-is and doesn't need upgrading must change. We cannot go on tolerating a segment of our population--urban blacks--to hedonistically self-destruct pulling down everyone around them. We need 3 hours each day in our High Schools where our teens work together co-operatively on tangible life skills projects like home building, clothing making, home garden food farming, camping etc. to build moral stoical character in them. After HS, everyone must serve 2 years in a National Service (NS) Corps of their choice--not just the military--police, medical, conservation, high speed train, space, spy corps... Smarter countries like Israel and Nordic countries have 2 years of NS and they don't have hedonists rioting for flat screen TVs whenever they get a public excuse to go berserk.
One of the USMC's core incompetencies is blowing-off detailed technotactical excellence with the "small stuff" saying. Not having a gun or a cannon shooting High Explosive (HE) shells has bit them in the ass repeatedly starting in Beirut in 1983--and this weakness is still uncorrected. Morons with Kinetic Energy (KE) bullets are still popping off rounds into suicide cars/trucks filled with HEs until the latter explodes and everyone is vaporized.
I am constantly learning new things all the time--I don't know what Luddites like Mattis/Kelly do--they sure haven't offered any new thinking as long as we've known them.
One of these tidbits of allegedly "small stuff" that determined the outcome of an entire battle, an entire war, an entire world empire was Alexander the Great in a melee in his 1st battle getting hit in the head. Had his helmet not withstood the sword blow, he'd have died, the battle would have been lost--no Alexander the Great and no Greco-Roman world. Moreover, Alexander was saved from a 2nd assailant by his battle buddy--1 is NONE, 2 are 1. The U.S. Army has a 2-man minimum battle buddy mentality--the moron korps does not. The Army has also striven to create helmets that can withstand assault rifle bullet hits.
Another Example...
The Crusaders were besieging the walled city of Acre adjacent to sea resupply and rejected a surrender insisting they put their wheeled siege towers in play. With fire-resistant coverings, the defenders couldn't set the wooden towers on fire. A clever chemist had the courage--and Field General Saladin the humility to listen to him--to offer a new Greek Fire formula with naphtha that would ignite the Crusader's assault towers. Saladin had him smuggled into Acre where he did his mixture and VOILA! the Crusader's towers burned-to-ash--with some Roman Catholics inside receiving some of their burn-at-the-stake medicine they loved to administer to decent and actual Christians like Jan Hus.
Siege of Acre cancelled; entire Crusade bogged-down and eventually defeated--Jerusalem not taken. Saladin wisely allows a peace treaty where good faith Christian pilgrims could go to Jerusalem--but the city itself remained under Arab Islamist control.
The points here are don't pass up on an opportunity to win without losing any of your men/supplies and stay on top of technotactical details. Thank God, the Mongol drive west-ward was stopped by their leaders dying since the Roman Catholics in heavy armor trudging along at 1 mph on foot were not up to the task of adapting past horse-archers with 300 meter reach arrows. Roman segmented plate armor could indeed stop an arrow unlike the crap chain mail stuff worn by the Crusaders so if they also joined their shields into a walking phalanx, they should withstand Mongol massed arrow volleys until within range to toss their brittle-tip spears/javelins to what accuracy effect I don't know. Roman general Belisarius did use some archer cavalrymen--but not in the massed quantities of the Mongols.
It seems to me that only Zizka's wooden armored personnel carriers aka wooden M113 Gavins aka war wagons with crossbowmen, hand and towed cannon firearms could have beat the Mongols several hundred years later in the 1400s.
The On-Going COVID 19 Lesson, Students
Of course, SMALL STUFF means micro-scopic things like the COVID 19 virus. It means wearing effective N95 face masks which Japan and South Korea have used to beat back the Chinese virus.
What say ye USMC moron on this being something to NOT sweat?
COVID 19 SURVIVAL TIPS
Doctors are reporting they now understand the behavior of the COVID 19 virus due to autopsies that they have carried out. This virus is characterized by obstructing respiratory pathways with thick mucus that solidifies and blocks the airways and lungs. So they have discovered that in order to apply a medicine you have to open and unblock these airways so that the treatment can be used to take effect however all of this takes a number of days. Their recommendations for what you can do to safeguard yourself are ...
1) Drink lots of hot liquids - coffees, soups, teas, warm water. In addition take a sip of warm water every 20 minutes bc this keeps your mouth moist and washes any of the virus that’s entered your mouth into your stomach where your gastric juices will neutralize it before it can get to the lungs.
2) Gargle with an antiseptic and warm water like vinegar or salt or lemon every day if possible
3) The virus attaches itself to hair and clothes. And detergent or soap kills it but you must take bath or shower when you get in from the street. Avoid sitting down in your home and go straight to the shower. If you cannot wash your clothes daily, hang them in sunlight which also helps to neutralize the virus
4) Wash metallic surfaces very carefully bc the virus can stay viable on these for up to 9 days. Take note and be vigilant about touching hand rails, door knobs, etc. and keep these clean in home home
5) Don’t smoke
6) Wash your hands every 20 minutes with any soap that foams and do this for 20 seconds
7) Eat fruits and vegetables. Try to elevate your zinc levels
8) Animals do not spread the virus to people. Its a person-to-person transmission.
9) Try to avoid getting the common flu as this already weakens your system and try to avoid eating and drinking any cold things.
10) If you feel any discomfort in your throat or a sore throat coming on, attack it immediately using the above methods. The virus enters the system through the throat but will sit in the throat for 3-4 days before it passes into your lungs.
In addition ...
Experts suggest doing this simple verification every morning: Breathe in deeply and hold your breath for 10 seconds. If this can be done without coughing, without difficulty, this shows that there is no fibrosis in the lungs, indicating the absence of infection. It is recommended to do this control every morning to help detect infection.
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How Western Civilization survives in light on its constant stupidity re: open border acceptance of criminally-intolerant Islamics today is an open question. Toleration of a moron Korps that constantly does LESS while bragging MORE and MORE also comes to mind.
So no, USMC aka moron korps, SWEAT EVERYTHING YOU CAN, WHEN YOU CAN--because it'll be too late once the fighting begins.
Patton's Prayer, Our Prayer for America
https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2020/06/retrowarthink-010-pattons-prayer-our.html
Semper Airborne!
James Bond is REAL.
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