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If anyone from SOCOM is lurking here, I offer some theory for your CO while you get your ass covering in order
Samuel Huntington’s Prussian Paradox
Clausewitz, Military Professionalism, and the Myth of a “Apolitical” Military
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December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If anyone from SOCOM is lurking here, I offer some theory for your CO while you get your ass covering in order
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We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
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The Labour government after coming in loudly proclaiming that it will squeeze migration numbers to assuage Right wing voters will quickly find itself scrambling to import the skilled migrants that Right wing voters need just like every previous UK government in the last 20 years.
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Labour government after coming in loudly proclaiming that it will squeeze migration numbers to assuage Right wing voters will quickly find itself scrambling to import the skilled migrants that Right wing voters need just like every previous UK government in the last 20 years.