Hubris, lack of training, negligence... anyway you look at it, it was dicked up. There will be no accountability. Accountability only applies to "others"...
Well we already know these creeps are completely without honor, so don’t expect honorable behavior from them.
A couple things about this affair are worth mentioning.
1. They were deliberately using the Signal app to avoid archiving records of their little chat, as is legally required.
2. The inclusion of Jeffrey Goldberg was no fat finger accident. Somebodies inside the military are appalled at these idiots and their egregious behavior and included “JG” on Walz’s phone. First Walz denied he did it himself then backtracked when it became obvious to the trumpers that he was hacked and making that public would make things even worse.
On “warrior ethos”, generally speaking it’s an infantry centric thing to cultivate a pseudo-death-cult so they men would be comfortable to take 90% of casualty of the entire armed force and have only 4% of the entire budget spent on them. Every “normal” military do that.
Of course it is somewhat associated with the madness that is Japanese “Bushido” that has more to do with the Japanese doctrine since Russo-Japanese war than any real historical code of Japanese military nobility class. French military had the notorious “cult of the offensive” for the same reason. And even to late 2000s British military still have the obsession with the term “bayonet power”. (the cult of bayonet is a real thing, read “an intimate history of killing” if you want to know more)
I have a weird feeling the whole “warrior ethos” thing actually also came from saner people like Mattis who started the “Close Combat Lethality Task Force” trying to somehow gain “overmatch” for infantry close combat. One theory was that infantry need to be psychologically optimized. (on that topic the extreme would be the augmentation in the an*me “Genocidal Organ” where American SOF personnel are doped with emotion inhibiting drugs so they can gun down child soldiers without turning Eddie Gallagher)
Generally speaking “warrior ethos” is not just a modern “SOF cult” or professionalized military thing. Conscript militaries could and had in fact tried to instill even greater amount of the “warrior ethos” to motivate infantryman further so they could instill heavy attrition in an attrition centric war.
The Prussians would leave a loaded pistol on his desk and close the door behind them as they left him alone with it
Depends on era…
Generally speaking after one big victory they will start huffing their farts and degenerate into incredibly lousy idiots.
Hubris, lack of training, negligence... anyway you look at it, it was dicked up. There will be no accountability. Accountability only applies to "others"...
The cry-bully ethos
Well we already know these creeps are completely without honor, so don’t expect honorable behavior from them.
A couple things about this affair are worth mentioning.
1. They were deliberately using the Signal app to avoid archiving records of their little chat, as is legally required.
2. The inclusion of Jeffrey Goldberg was no fat finger accident. Somebodies inside the military are appalled at these idiots and their egregious behavior and included “JG” on Walz’s phone. First Walz denied he did it himself then backtracked when it became obvious to the trumpers that he was hacked and making that public would make things even worse.
On “warrior ethos”, generally speaking it’s an infantry centric thing to cultivate a pseudo-death-cult so they men would be comfortable to take 90% of casualty of the entire armed force and have only 4% of the entire budget spent on them. Every “normal” military do that.
Of course it is somewhat associated with the madness that is Japanese “Bushido” that has more to do with the Japanese doctrine since Russo-Japanese war than any real historical code of Japanese military nobility class. French military had the notorious “cult of the offensive” for the same reason. And even to late 2000s British military still have the obsession with the term “bayonet power”. (the cult of bayonet is a real thing, read “an intimate history of killing” if you want to know more)
I have a weird feeling the whole “warrior ethos” thing actually also came from saner people like Mattis who started the “Close Combat Lethality Task Force” trying to somehow gain “overmatch” for infantry close combat. One theory was that infantry need to be psychologically optimized. (on that topic the extreme would be the augmentation in the an*me “Genocidal Organ” where American SOF personnel are doped with emotion inhibiting drugs so they can gun down child soldiers without turning Eddie Gallagher)
Generally speaking “warrior ethos” is not just a modern “SOF cult” or professionalized military thing. Conscript militaries could and had in fact tried to instill even greater amount of the “warrior ethos” to motivate infantryman further so they could instill heavy attrition in an attrition centric war.