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Martinho Martins Botelho. Nyasha chadebinga. Akshat Pant. Anonymous Z9pUrs. The s were a difficult time for most Americans. Haris Khan. Quinn Lynch. Popular in Government. Jaimin Mungalpara. Dank Alameda Meme Stash. Ed Manzano. Jutt Awara. Christina Marily. Kevin Stone. Evan Toth. Nap Gonzales. Paul Provence. We will not be fighting the "good ol' romantic war" in the trenches. We won't even cruise around with tanks and fighter jets, at least not longer than a couple of days, at most.
And one man's guerrilla warfare is other one's terrorism. This is how easily whole nations can become "terrorists" in media and the public perception of other countries. I'm kind of amused that many reviews I've read are so pissed off because John Dolan hasn't made his Brecher character more pc.
These readers think it's more important to get offended because of his tone of writing than to understand that the main subject the guy is tackling is war and he has no false ideas about the thing he knows most about.
His "racism" means that he understands that everyone is capable of hideous things. His "misogynism" means that he understands that women usually end up as victims when young hotheaded men go banging, both figuratively and literally. If he uses an offending tone of voice or insulting phrases from time to time, it's because the subjects he talks about are ugly and shouldn't be covered with a smoke screen. He does a service for the reader because most of media, be it mainstream or alternative, doesn't.
Most of the time we don't get the real picture of war, we don't get the actual financial reasons or the deep hate between tribes. He challenges us to look at ourselves and the picture is not pretty. Ecce homo. Josephus FromPlacitas. It's a little tempting to withhold a star because I'd read about half of these columns online already, but it's nice to have them all on my shelf, accessible without having to use any electricity.
And the re-readability factor on all these mini-essays is through the roof. Brecher is something like Howard Zinn turned inside-out; he brings you the world from an unpretentious perspective, sympathetic to the ways of life of average people in average places, except most average places consist entirely of a world of misery and vicious desperation that nice suburbanites generally don't like to mull over too closely.
When he talks about how it's only "violence" when the guy you've been beating down hits back, he almost sounds like Franz Fanon , if Fanon could write in plain speech rather than obtuse French psycho-theoretical prose. And if Frantz Fanon somehow morphed into a knee-jerk anti-Communist white American nationalist from central California. Um, yeah. Granted, he's insanely bigoted shit-talker, characterizing Shiites as death-worshippers, Pashtuns as boy-fuckers, or Latin Americans as folks who are all "born knowing two things: how to lower a Chevy and that the Gringos are always to blame.
That and as an effort to tweak his mortal enemies: the David Van Driessens of the world. Also, it's tempting to imagine that the racism and venom is more a part of the fictional character of "Brecher," than a real conviction or trait of his flesh-and-blood author s for whom he is a pseudonym. I hope, anyway. Brecher is a fun read because you get the benefits of gleaning ideas from a dedicated player of Risk and memorizer of Jane's Weapon's Systems without any of the social agony.
And he's brighter than the typical freeper or posturing mil-geek. There's none of the dogmatic troll drivel endemic to the class of people who wank themselves into unconsciousness over episodes of Future Weapons and then religiously read NewsMax as they enjoy the afterglow. So it's all the insight with little to none of the odiousness. It's not terribly important, "Brecher" is a war nerd, not a Spanish nerd. But it is indicative of something I've observed about him, I think.
Part of the fun of these columns is their bitter insouciance, their utter disregard for polite morality. But if that gets in the way of analysis, then that's something to question. He's way smarter than that. He's doing it because working class Chileans under Salvador Allende begged the socialist president to arm them against the inevitable takeover by some Pinochet or other. Allende refused, and died with a rifle in his hand, rather than living empty-handed while a mass army of rifle-bearing citizens backed him up.
He's also got to arm against Colombia, the US proxy. The US could not gin up a direct invasion, Hugo doesn't have to worry about that. What's going on in the world? What are the corporate media outlets refusing to tell me about? What's the real history of these complex regions, these Byzantine conflicts I've only heard a little or nothing about?
But Brecher, in some ways, is a real breath of fresh air, far distant and distinct from the often stale scent of leftist journalism.
What I mean is, there's often such a need to prove oneself right and the other side wrong among the lefty journo genre, that clarity, explanation, and simplicity often disappear. Instead you get the Jeremy Scahill-type indictment-of-the-badguys screed writing which can but doesn't always feel pretty myopic. Okay, okay, neoliberal colonialism and crypto-imperialist expansion is a bad thing, I get it already. But what's really happening? With Brecher, there's none of the self-censorship that's occasionally necessary among the monk-soldiers of the Amy Goodman Army.
Piety and religious pacifism are not impediments to understanding for the War Nerd. There's no fetishization of certain tiny groups because they've become a pet cause. Granted, Brecher fetishizes war, but within that frame he's got miles of room to be honest.
He's like an old-school Chicago sports columnist turning his acid pen toward world conflicts. He generally knows the players, he knows the game, he may get it wrong on occasion, but even then he's fun to read. I also like Brecher as someone who's humped his way through all the horrible, unreadable military gear descriptions, coming out the other end with only what's interesting. He had slogged through mountains of terrible management and business literature although "literature" is probably the wrong word to use.
And I really appreciate that in writers. A nice big hardback, so you could take it to the assholes running all the anti-French-military sites and bash their heads in with it. Got something to say to us? Then send us a letter. Twitter twerps can follow us at twitter. Peabody's Lederhosen July 24th, at pm. Conservative America, always unable to deal with reality, are the ones who simply make shit up when the facts say otherwise. Stupid Motherfuckers — all of them! Great piece Gary, as usual.
Thanks for setting the record straight. Oh, Dr. It is so nice to see your classics re-posted. The world misses you, buddy, but I know you are goin through a tough time at the moment. Hopefully you can get back on board with Pando again soon, once things settle down. No shortage of material out there at the moment. Only idiots and Republicans believe that silliness. Good rag, more limonov, less silliness, get to work!
Batterytrain September 18th, at pm. What a load of cock and bull! The military history of the Swedish empire and all the countries surrounding it, is incredible.
Prussians are also underrated, sure they lost to Napoleon but once they corrected their mistakes and hurdles, they started kicking serious ass despite being disadvantaged in the form of terrain plus lack of warm water ports. Read about Friedrich the Great and how he defeated multiple armies on straight ground battles as if it was leisure time. Heck they fought extremely well in WWI.
The West represents everything wrong and bad, in this case Jewish influenced and backed capitalism, the individualist consumerist termite colonist, excessive materialist based identity, atomized dumbed down existence, hedonism as the basis for living, ego-driven false virtues and purposes, rootlessness, cultureless, blandness, nihilism, self-centeredness, plastic false personalities, manufactured fake realities to please the masses; no nation state for any other race but open-borders neo-colonialized world where the colonized simply follow in the footsteps of their enslaved ancestors by succumbing to these launched values.
They wanted essentially nation states based on race for everybody else with economic slots and jobs catered towards serving the people and the country instead of some vague neo-liberal hyper-individualist fantastic imaginary end-lighted tunnel with ego-centric pointless underpinnings.
Also I never understood why these people always boasted about their experiences, when the Germans, Russians, Balts, Eastern Europeans, Balkanize etc did the vast majority of the real fighting. Remember Germany was mostly a landlocked territory surrounded by enemies on all sides consistently throughout history but they also defeated most of their enemies on straight to straight ground battles, enemies who were equal in technology and numbers to them.
The fact that the Russians were able to regularly deploy vast numbers of forces and win so many wars against enemies while controlling huge territories of the northern hemisphere at the same time is an enormous feat they accomplished which is nothing short of incredible.
Bernhard A Kats September 25th, at am. I missed you Gary, master story teller of Libya, Mauritania and Uganda. The French? You forgot West Africa. And their recent victories in Libya and Mali.
Write about another African country. Nigeria may be. But not about Zuid Afrika or the Goudkust Ghana. I am Dutch, and I know what I am talking about. Well, I can see why you would want to disprove the case of the French being cowards, and agree completely that France was instrumental, more so than Americans, in gaining U. Indeed Russians,French, and Germans fought a lot in Europe in the last centuries. But how come it was always Britain and later US who benefited from European wars?
Maybe there is a lesson to be learned? Maybe it should be learned quickly, before current sanction wars cause irreparable damage? The idea that some — any group are cowards, is a disguised attempt to intrinsically separate one group or humans from another as fundamentally different. The Wehrmacht were a somewhat predictable outcome of a centuries worth of militarization underlying the birth of a nation in a hostile neighborhood.
German leaders, like so many others looked to their military to defend and extend an Empire. By , enough Germans had absorbed military tactics, technical wizbang, and theory that their military had both cohesion and enough fanaticism to attempt again to break out of central Europe and conquer. The answer is a failure so far of imagination. It depends on our willingness to imagine another future. But as Gary points out anyone facing the Germans in 39 needed a very cool head to survive.
Any summary insult proclaiming French cowardice is ignorant if not cowardly in itself. For I am Galtard Warrior! The nuking of Japan was fully and completely justified. Germany couldn't have gotten nukes, even if the Norwegian resistance members hadn't blown up the heavy water stations and what not.
There was no such thing as a "blitzkrieg" tactic - it was simply generals using the tanks at their disposal to their best ability. Germany was technologically superior to the Allies, but its resources deprived them of putting them to any use.
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