Trying to Control the Uncontrollable

It has been centuries since the world has seen a military force under covenant. Individual troopers can gain some limited measure of personal moral covering, but the institution itself is owned by Satan. Thus, any discussion of what the military is, or should be, must assume from the start that damnation is included. In other words, we can discuss it only from the viewpoint of knowing it is futile, that everything we are talking about will be devoid of consistent covering from the Lord. There is no hope of improvement; there is only observing the downward moral drift.

Thus, the only thing we can do is understand and learn lessons. We can discuss the problems of our military forces, and observe why those problems exist, but it will always be a part of the bigger picture of moral decline. We live with the problems, and they will touch us, but there is nothing anyone can do. The whole thing is founded on a rejection of Christ, so there was no hope from the very beginning.

What lessons can we learn, then?

Having been directly involved in any number of reforms aimed at making the military better, I can tell you that, even with the limited good that can be had outside the Covenant, the hive-mind of the military is determined to avoid the only real solutions.

Let’s get one thing clear: A military force exists to break things and kill people. What no one wants to admit is that a major element of what motivates men to do these things efficiently so that the enemy is forced to surrender is rape and plunder. The whole point of pulling men from their homes and corralling them in training camps, and then deploying them, is to frustrate their desires for comforts and sex. It is frustrated men who are most effective at humbling the enemy; these are the men who will fight the hardest.

And when the mission is wholly defensive, it is the matter of keeping their comforts and families that motivates them. If there is nothing there to gain or protect, they won’t fight with good motivation. Ancient commanders knew this. They didn’t allow plunder during the battle, but they did make sure everyone who bore the battle got a share of loot. Denying troops plunder, as if it were somehow immoral and unprofessional, guarantees a host of preventable discipline problems.

In other words, all the problems with our military are cultural. It’s based on a false understanding of what is real, of what human nature is actually like. Right now, the US military is facing a rising problem with sexual assault. The leadership is forced to work with something deeply broken in the first place, so they have every natural incentive to take no effective action against sexual misconduct within the ranks. They are saddled with an impossible task, and are deeply deceived about what works.

Nobody should have to explain why putting women in uniform is so utterly stupid. It’s an open invitation for misconduct. Where does it come from? It arises from the mythology that women are sacred creatures, morally superior to men, and certainly interchangeable with men in terms of what military forces do. This lie springs from the very root of Western identity. God Himself clearly declares that women cannot do what men do best on the battlefield. Women do it better defending the hearth, of course, so there’s nothing wrong with training and equipping them in home defense. But they are not wired to do what men need to do when marching against the enemy.

So the primary lesson here is that it will get worse. Further, we can predict to some degree how it will get worse. That’s because we know that the current generation of people coming into the military service are more deluded than ever, even while their leadership’s position is more impossible than ever. The whole thing is so deeply infested with demons that there is no hope for any measure of sanity. All the training and equipment we can buy will not turn black into white.

The lingering mythology that our military is somehow sacred is a despicable lie of Satan. The same goes for our police forces. Of course, it’s not as if everyone is inherently evil. Rather, it is that the system is so hopelessly corrupt that, in the long run, everyone will get burned. It may well be their divine mission to be involved in uniformed services, but individuals should know that things will decline until it becomes utterly chaotic and meaningless.

Don’t pour hatred and contempt on the people serving in uniform. They are deceived victims, for the most part. Rather, have pity on them when you can. Show mercy, which is how we reach out to the whole world enslaved by Satan. But for Christ’s sake, never look toward people in uniform for any kind of covering. They have none themselves. The full fire of Hell washes over their lives more than it does most, because they are on the front lines of trying to control the uncontrollable.