Diversity is Our Greatest Weakness

The United States Marine Corps, which just got its ass handed to it by the British Royal Marines in a major wargame, has decided that the biggest problem facing it is a lack of diversity.

Now there's nothing wrong with losing a wargame, even catastrophically. That can mean that you have an opportunity to learn something about a weakness you hadn't suspected or noticed. That can only happen, however, if you are focused on learning those lessons. Combat effectiveness is what matters; this stuff is at best a distraction, and can become a poison. 
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8 comments:

  1. Mike Guenther6:46 AM

    At the next Marine Drill competition, the winning team will be wearing stiletto heels with jock straps over red strapless dresses.

    I'll just show myself out.

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  2. Grim9:23 AM

    There’s a Task & Purpose article that denies much of the substance of the British press; but after thousands of words finally gets around to admitting that the 7th Marine Regiment was savaged by the opposing force (which also included some USMC units).

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  3. Grim9:24 AM

    https://taskandpurpose.com/voices/us-marines-didnt-surrender-british-training-exercise/

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    1. ymarsakar12:26 PM

      All i can say to the author is, wake up and smell the apocalypse. Turf wars between military funding competitors, are a minor distraction.

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  4. ymarsakar11:37 AM

    Ashes to ashes. The military has chosen treason and donald refused to launch the counter coup on j20th.

    So they can watch as i burn them down. I do not need the us marines or donald at this point. God has plenty of legions after all.

    America will face god as an enemy, as soddom once did. We will see what we see. I predict a great burning.

    In human news, it means china is invading from canada and mexico and the us marines will be combat incapable due to wax shots.

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  5. E Hines12:21 PM

    Now there's nothing wrong with losing a wargame, even catastrophically.

    I think that's the optimal outcome, for those with the courage to learn from it, even more so than winning a wargame only barely.

    There are many more lessons to be learned from a devastating loss than from any sort of win. Did the win come because our side really is that good? Or because the other side was bad (although: if so, what can the winners learn from the losers' loss?)? Or was it blind luck (of course there's a lesson here, too: how to recognize the role luck played, and even more, how to recognize a priori upcoming luck--good or bad--so as to give the one a chance and to duck the other and how to do each).

    Lessons abound for those with the courage to pay attention.

    I saw that T&P article. Bunch of mealy-mouthed, chickens*t excuses by a Marine (maybe the whole unit) who lacks the courage to learn--and so the capability to win. Much of that is on the Marines', and our military's in general, management (not leaders. With guys like Austin and Milley, there are no leaders in charge).

    Eric Hines

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  6. David Foster3:45 PM

    In 1797, a Spanish naval official wrote a thoughtful essay on the subject "Why do we keep losing to the British, and what can we do about it?" I excerpted the document here:

    https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/56200.html

    I wonder if some of the malign factors that Don Domingo Perez de Grandallana identified in 1797 might be operative in the American military today....

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  7. Aggie9:55 PM

    Did they try using any really insulting pronouns?

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