A Lesson For The Modern World

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

In the autumn of 1415 the English army under command of Henry V were making their way north towards the English held port of Calais. He had arrived only two months earlier and after a single minor victory the French King ordered his forces to assemble in order to expel Henry and his forces from French soil. Although the actual count of his forces are still in dispute his army numbered less than 9,000 men, over 80% of them serfs, armed only with longbows and a heavy mallets for weapons.

They were not only disadvantaged by their numbers but by a full week of poor weather, dysentery, and steady rain slowed their advance. Just south of the village of Agincourt they found themselves within a mile of the French forces that had blocked their path and forced them to prepare for battle. Most people do not realize that this particular engagement would alter not only the course of the Hundred Years War but the future landscape of armed conflict. The French King had been experiencing a form of mental illness that led him to believe he was made of glass (an occupational hazard of potentates it would seem) and so he was absent from the engagement, hidden in his castle while his army marched on the English invasion force.

To his credit he had arrayed one of the most technologically advanced military forces ever assembled. They outnumbered the English cohorts by as much as 6:1 with nearly 10,000 knights clad in the latest steel armor which the iron tipped arrows of the English could not penetrate. By modern standards this was roughly equivalent to having Taliban go up against the top of the line fighting dogs produced by Boston Robotics. The English forces were clad in their farm wear, only a small number with any kind of armor, on foreign soil with no supply lines, after several days of hard travel in bad weather.

If ever there were a case for despair it was at this place in this time. Unlike the French, the English forces were commanded by their King, a man willing to risk his own life in the thick of the fight. They had found themselves at the bottom of the battlefield in what was a choke point on the landscape, hemmed in on both sides by ditches and mounds and behind that a steadily rising hillside of dense woodlands. The French arrayed their forces at the top of the hill, close to 10,000 armored cavalry to the front, the remainder of their armored infantry immediately behind them, a force that must have appeared awesome to the English serfs who made up the vast majority of the E army.

The battle did not begin until mid-morning when the French, awaiting even larger numbers to reinforce them decided to move their crossbowmen to the rear, anticipating a quick victory. The majority of the front ranks mounted on horseback were made up of French nobility, their heralds fluttering in the French sunshine, confident in their superiority over a force made up of farmers and tradesmen in woolen britches, hardly one of whom owned even a helmet.

In the modern era we have completely forgotten that in the age of chivalry only a knight could fight another knight. The peasants that made up the majority of Henry’s forces were barely noticed by the French lords, these were of no value to them and so they were not taken into account at the onset of battle. Their objective was the capture and ransom of English nobles, a common practice that insured them wealth in the event of a victory.

The battle itself was more of an economic proposition as a martial engagement and the French were already counting their riches as they began to move towards the English line. As I mentioned earlier it had rained for nearly a week straight and the condition of the recently plowed field, especially at the English end, was a thick soup of clay and mud. As they made their way towards the English center the 7,000 long bowmen let loose with up to 10 arrows per man every minute. While it has been subsequently demonstrated it was unlikely that the iron tipped arrows were able to penetrate the state of the art French armor, their horses were unprotected and as that rain of peasant’s arrows fell upon them the attack collapsed and the multitude of French riders found themselves buried in the mud and ooze, unable to rise back up due to the suction of the armor they wore in the saturated earth.

Their horses turned back and crashed through the massed infantry that followed, breaking their ranks and causing even greater losses to their advance. And the arrows continued to rain down upon the fallen. What they also overlooked in their rush to meet the enemy was that the number of men who entered the fray from behind channeled their numbers into an increasingly smaller area, a choke point that began to fill with the dead and the dying. It was said that huge numbers of knights drowned in their own helmets, having never struck a single blow upon their opponents.

What they also failed to not was that the knights who made it to the front, knee deep in mud, clad in 75 pounds of armor and exhausted from the charge were facing not only English armor that had been waiting for them, but thousands of angry serfs who saw an opportunity to strike a blow against their social betters and high status targets. Using heavy mallets used to build their paling defenses they caved in the armor of the downed French aristocracy, crushing them to death in their own armor. At that time it was almost unheard of, the shock of their sudden reversal made doubly humiliating by the fact that it was the simple nobodies, commoners, dirt people who took great pleasure in inflicting maximum casualties on the elites brought low on a field of battle.

The French, unable to process what was happening found themselves fully engaged now on both flanks as well and the battle which had started out on the wrong foot turned into a three hour carnage of slaughter. Henry having already taken as many prisoners as he had men in his own army made the decision to forgo the bounties of ransom and ordered that the prisoners be put to the sword. It has been noted that even his own men were reluctant to follow his orders because of their code of chivalry, so the commoners, the long bowmen making sixpence a day for their service, took to the job with relish.

For three hours, with bodies stacked as high as six feet in the muck they made their way from one end of the battlefield to the other with pointed sticks, dirks, arrows and hammers dispatching every last survivor who could not flee the scene. Final accounts of the dead vary from between 120-450 English to between 4,000 and 10,000 Frenchmen, a huge number of them noblemen, knights, and highly placed officials in the French court.

In modern context it would be hard to imagine such a primitive form of warfare ever taking place again, but that is merely an illusion we hold due to our extensively long history of peacetime in our own country. In purely military terms it resembles our current policies and practices. We have an arrogance that has led us to believe that our technological superiority over our opponents can only lead to victory and we find ourselves repeatedly led into warfare by our elites for their economic benefit.

They use the modern serf, known as deplorables, to do the dirty work of killing whoever they choose for whatever their reasons for almost no pay with little or no reward. They see themselves as invulnerable to the little people, they demonstrate their contempt and move through their lives in pomp and luxury assuming that they too understand the ground, know the enemy, are always assured of victory. What they disregard is that no matter how often they have won in the past, all it takes is a small series of misjudgments and hubris to turn their assured victory into a complete and total defeat at the hands of people they never considered to be a threat.

This was a perfect example of 4G warfare against an opponent living in a 3G world. Everyone assume that since the elites that determine the course of history during our lifetimes that they cannot be defeated. Every elite believes that he is vastly superior, not only in title and standing, but in every other way imaginable and that their intellectual capacities can foresee the outcomes of future events right up until that moment when they make a gross underestimation of their foe and launch their own defeat.

At that time there wasn’t any material difference between the French and English elites than there are today among our own. They spoke the same languages, ruled the same lands, swapped the same titles back and forth, amassed fortunes with which they waged even more wars for greater profit, like a game of Risk. The people who did the tasks required of an economically stratified system in order that it function properly were always ignored until their mass was required, and then they were seduced, by monetary reward and a deeply ingrained sense of obligation, to do the dirty work of killing and dying.

Our political class lives so far above us that they too have lost an understanding of the ground and the conditions, the resolve of their opponents, and their dependence on technologies that may not only fail at a critical moment, but serve as their own greatest enemy. The globalist leaders of their time, with all the advantages of superior weaponry and tactics brought down by the dirt people, clubbed to death with wooden mallets in the muck.

And so we all continue to pretend that what has always happened, for as long as there have been social orders and men willing to exploit them to their own advantage, will not happen this time. This time it’s different; this time they are smarter, control more power, have superior technology, are that much more assured of even greater conquests than ever before. Still history allows us to see for ourselves that only the names change, not the behavior or the inevitable outcomes of all men who have ever been. And for those of us who have never aspired to power, never desired fortunes at the expense of the impoverished, there is the memory of the mud of Agincourt and what fell there six centuries ago.

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Pequiste
Pequiste

Thank you for the splendid reminder that every dog has its day and that chance also rules in the affairs of Men.
It also doesn’t hurt to have longbows of Yew wood with a hearty yeomanry expert in its use.

whitefang
whitefang

The English yeomen were trained from youth and by the time they reached maturity their skeletons were literally deformed from the constant practice. The Plains Indians were deadly accurate at close range with their bows and stone tipped arrows against the U.S. Cavalry. Soldiers were advised to save one bullet for themselves rather than face capture and torture.

BL
BL

I can go down that hill way better than that monstrosity and I’m old. So , note to TBP’ers…. if one of those things comes after you, head for a big downhill slope as it will take that thing 30 minutes to get down and you will be LONG GONE.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

They won’t have perfected the robot dog until it starts humping people.

Dutchman
Dutchman

I would imagine sending the appropriate jamming signal would disable that four legged robot.

Battle of Thermopylae A Greek force of approximately 7,000 men marched north to block the pass in the middle of 480 BC. The Persian army, alleged by the ancient sources to have numbered over one million, but today considered to have been much smaller (various figures are given by scholars, ranging between about 100,000 and 150,000)[10][11] arrived at the pass in late August or early September. The vastly outnumbered Greeks held off the Persians for seven days (including three of battle) before the rear-guard was annihilated in one of history’s most famous last stands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

polecat
polecat

No No … your over thinking the situation !! All you have to do is release the bionic squirrels, and let AI nature do the rest.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

When NWO Chaos comes, TPTB and their Metro-sexual Useful Idiots will be at a terrible disadvantage compared to US Fly-over Deplorables. I will give the Liberals every consideration they gave me, a poor rural Conservative Southern White male Christian, over the last 55 years. Historians will have to invent a new word like Holodomor, Holocaust or Reconstruction to describe the effect NWO Chaos had on the big cities.

starfcker
starfcker

I’ve always said, if you put me in a foxhole with guys (or gals)on this board, I want the ones that understand killing. The finality of it. The ugliness of it. The necessity of it. We see it in little videos on here all the time. Somebody who is all mouth with no idea the danger they put themselves in in the face of a dangerous opponent. When I was young, you are very aware of who you might mouth off, and who it might be a bad idea to confront. The snowflake generation is clueless about a lot of this. And certainly the so-called elites who think it is their gift to Lord over the rest of us, have no idea what violence truly is. They see TV show violence. A 125 lb woman backhanding a man, and he goes down and stays down. They better hope it never gets rough. The learning curve will be very unforgiving

llpoh
llpoh

Star – I annoy my wife whenever I see a 125 pound woman on TV kicking shit out of a big man. Bullshit, I call out! Bullshit indeed.

Most young folks have never thrown a punch in anger. Until you have done so, you simply cannot understand the truth of it. In every fight I ever had, I was hurt – win or lose. It is better to win, but even winning hurts – a lot most times. Busted hands, cuts, scrapes, pulled muscles, etc. are the signs of victory. The loser fares even worse. But the key is in not giving a shit – no backward steps, despite the pain to come.

I have had a couple of “elites” by the throat in my day, and have gave one or two a hiding. The surprise in their eyes when they realized what was happening, or about to happen, to them is memorable. The had no reference point for getting punched in the face for insulting a “peon” – they had always got away with it, and expected to always do so.

I do not know if they learned from the experience – I suspect they just made sure in future to be out of reach whenever they mistreated peons.

starfcker
starfcker

I knocked a guy down in December. First time I put my hands on another man in probably 30 years. The level of disrespect he was showing me, and his totally ignoring my telling him that that would not stand got the better of me. I thought about teaching him a real lesson, but I figured it might get expensive. He was looking up at me like a dog on its back, absolutely stunned at the change of his situation. Needless to say, he’s undergone a complete attitude adjustment. He has a wife that’s out of control, and he doesn’t stand up to her, why he chose me to lash out at I have no idea.

Llpoh
Llpoh

Sorry to hear that Star. I am expecting sooner or later it will happen to me again, too. As I age, there will be some that see a soft target, cowards that they are. Gotta be careful of old folk – some of them bite. My old man sure did. When younger, I got to the stage where a good growl, or even a smile, would send most assholes scurrying. But as I said, cowards will see the age, not the attitude.

Sorry again, that that guy thought he could do to you what he wanted to do to his wife.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

LLPOH…one of the most epic put downs was when I was in high school. A kid who got picked on from time to time by the HS bullies was standing at his locker when when of the bullies decided it was time to have a little fun at the kids expense.

The bully got in his face and was goading him into a fight. Each insult from the bully was met with silence from the kid. The bully’s friends laughed in delight . The bully then shoved the kid against the locker .

The kid without missing a beat got nose to nose with the bully and looking him dead in the eye said, “I will end you by the end of the day ” . The recoil from the bully was instant,he turned and walked away….and from what I know never bothered him again .

e.d ott
e.d ott

Blue helmets and red banners make excellent targets at distance. What these urbanites don’t understand is that the Old Northwest Territories were surveyed in quarter mile grids and the open farmland presents a great opportunity for people able to reach out and touch someone.

22winmag - PFC Frank reporting for duty
22winmag - PFC Frank reporting for duty

Pure unadulterated genius.

See you in the proverbial trenches.

IluvCO2
IluvCO2

M2A1’s and armed drones vs. Deplorables and AR’s ?

Allfather

Worked in Afghanistan.

IluvCO2
IluvCO2

I was unaware that we won the war in Thirdworldhellholeistan. Well, given the mission of protecting the poppy fields, I guess we are winning. Bring our boys home now.

Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

I think he was being sarcastic…

a thousand guilders! Come-take fifty!
a thousand guilders! Come-take fifty!

Russians, 15 years, lost, Americans, 17 years–where have all the flowers gone-when will they ever learn

AC
AC

Deplorables and AR’s and other tools vs. indefensible supply lines, ports, utilities, bridges, tunnels, etc.. A complex technological system has a complex supporting infrastructure.

The only question is whether their beloved urban diversity will eat them before we get to hang them.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR

An army that depends on its night vision goggles will do just fine until the batteries run out. Also, a grunt with a basic combat load can use up all his ammunition and grenades in under two minutes. Without supplies, no soldiers is brave.

Check Six
Check Six

HSF: Excellent article…Thank you! Reminds me how great the screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V was some 30 or so years ago.

Allfather (Odin?), AC, NickelthroweR: excellent comments…a few more ideas:

I would suspect an attempt to use the Military just might not work the way most would think. Far too racially and sexually diverse. Too much built up anger over affirmative action and shitty wars. I would not be the first to volunteer to be the white guy to lead a platoon into a black or other non-white area to suppress the local folks. Think of those old multi-story buildings with windows that actually open. As well as the fact that a bunch of your troops identify more closely with those being suppressed than their leaders. Old Vietnam term comes to mind: Fragging.

Then, as others have stated, communications are going to go down rapidly, including electronic, vehicles, pipelines, power, etc. Very easy to take out a cell tower…just cut or pin the cable going to the antenna. Roads: just have a few semis go perpendicular to the highway, burn the tractor and the trailer tires. After traffic stalls for a mile or so behind the first mess, drop another tractor-trailer rig behind the mile or so of vehicles stalled. Explain to the tow outfit and fire department that today is not the best time to respond. Then snipe anyone that comes to move the mess. Tunnels and mountain passes are much easier. Jet aircraft can be taken out on the ground by a single round through the intake, or exhaust…bound to hit one of the turbine blades…very soft target, etc., etc.

Thucydides said something along the lines of: ” War ain’t going to go the way you think”. (He was a little more eloquent, but I can’t find the exact quote.)

Not a bad idea to have a little more food, water and ammo.

War is when the government tells you who your enemy is.

Revolution is when you figure it out yourself.

a thousand guilders! Come-take fifty!
a thousand guilders! Come-take fifty!

low tech beats high tech every time, think of a little kid with a sharpened ice pick lingering near the tires, or a pretty girl distracting soldiers while an old man does whatever on the other side. distilled nicotine poison in the wine, ground glass in the cookies, you’d be amazed at how some folks are “inventive”..

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

“War ain’t going to go the way you think.” Expanding on the theme of elites shocked by reality, someone here has posted several times a quote from Mike Tyson which surely applies: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.”

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

One of the best examples students of military history are always taught is the engagement at Little Round Top. Joshua Chamberlain, 20th Maine on July 2, 1863.
When the bullets run out and you’re left with nothing but steel and resolve you’ll find out how deep that faith and commitment really is.

The moment of truth at 1min, 20sec into the clip.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

Chamberlain used a very esoteric military maneuver known as the swinging gate …a brilliant move .

I find it ironic that Khrushchev was a Civil War buff from what I understand .

Uncola

A good reminder. It’s been said: “Without a vision, the people perish” and as I read this superb exposition, contemplated its primary point, and drew the natural correlations, I envisioned tired societies imploding. I wondered when and where actual battles might commence and questioned what people will believe they’re fighting for.

In watching the DARPA Dog vid, I am always taken aback by the creepiness of the Uncanny valley (electronic K-9 version). But not only that, the disturbing laugh of the Boston Dynamics engineer during the last 45 seconds. I mean, what do these guys think they are designing? For what purpose?

Anyway, it brought to my recollection one of my earliest pieces I ever posted here called “How to Transplant a Human Head” where the final sentence said:

Why do the illegitimate children of the Technocrats often seem so creepy? Maybe it’s genetic. Or, perhaps it’s because they live, but have no soul.

The best scenario would be they remain stuck in the mud forever; because who would’ve dreamed what Prometheus would raise from the muck.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

I’ve been working on a piece about the choke points of Empire. I’m almost afraid to finish it because I don’t want to give them any ideas they may have overlooked, but as they say on the battlefield, their lines are stretched pretty thin.

The system is far more fragile than it appears.

Pequiste
Pequiste

Old tech is capable and, as this essay confirms, can gain the upper hand over wealthy high tech adversary. Snail mail, self-addressed stamped envelopes with a small donation to the like-minded might get that information out to a concerned modern Yeomanry.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Is there any part of the plan where archery is required? I’ve been thinking of taking that up. I can only hope to achieve adequacy, but coupled with stealth…

Mangledman
Mangledman

I started shooting a bow at age 6, wrist rocket slingshots and never quite made the transition to compound bows. The instinct developed is worth every minute. A compound has a faster arrow, and more complex set of sights, but on moving targets instinctive sighting is preferred in my opinion. A slingshot with oo or 04 buckshot can take small game easily. I think Ted Nugent uses a compound but sights on instinct. You will be surprised how good you can get shooting a bow in a short period of time. You are never too old if you can still pull it.

Stucky

“You are never too old if you can still pull it.”

That’s the MOST ENCOURAGING THING that I have read here in years!!

Thanks for that, man. Thanks so very much.

ursel doran
ursel doran

Crossbow with a scope!!

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

There is a new crossbow that is easy to use and has a scope. I have seen tests of it on the gun shows on Outdoor Channel. It isn’t cheap but will make just about anybody who can tie their own shoes William Tell or Robin Hood. Every test I have seen shows this thing shooting 100 yard groups of two inches all day long. There was a recent article in The American Rifleman as well.

Robert Gore

I couldn’t agree more.

SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow

You must have been an infantryman in your former life? The “channelization” and creation of a free fire zone in the narrow choke point is a classic strategy to overwhelm a larger force by only permitting a small number of that force to engage. I was an engineer and we studied terrain and the use of obstacles to create the conditions necessary to engage a channelized enemy in this manner. Long ago but really seems like yesterday. Great post. Looking forward to more… Chip

MN Steel
MN Steel

Channelization and an 11-Row Concertina Obstacle will stop any tracked armor on the planet…

It’s not about fighting strength-on-strength, it’s about fighting two steps ahead and realizing it’s all for keeps.

https://www.armystudyguide.com/content/SMCT_CTT_Tasks/Skill_Levels_2_4/0521953066-sl3-direct-con.shtml

El Kabong
El Kabong

How much of the U.S. population would die in the first month after an EMP from a detonated nuke above the U.S. fries the electrical grids? 95%? There are some “elites” that are so monied that they may be able to survive if they can get to their bunkers, but the chaos and wildfires from such an EMP would be enough to make that very difficult. One gets the feeling that some of these “elites” haven’t really thought all of this through as much as they’d like you to believe, especially with their hell-bent penchant for starting wars.

Eyas
Eyas

Know anyone at NORAD?

Prusmc
Prusmc

Why would any country or group use an EMP weapon on a country which is committing suicide?

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

Faster results. Just sayin’ ….

Mangledman
Mangledman

I strongly couldn’t agree more. I think an EMP might be just be for fear mongering. If an automobile did survive it will be an enviable commodity in the land of 300 million guns. Planes won’t be leaving for New Zealand either. Not to mention 126 reactors that aren’t supposed to be able to keep the pumps running without diesel generators.

bigfoot
bigfoot

Okay, but those deplorables were practicing with their long bows since they were children. No one else but them as adults could even pull back an arrow let alone multitudes of them every minute. Maybe a blacksmith. Wicked weapon and its use easily defeated the French; muddy conditions only made their defeat quicker and prevented a general retreat. Canons came later.

Today we have nuclear weapons. The French would have used them if they had had them.

Impasse conditions nowadays? Only if the truly idiotic and psychopathic do not think they can survive anything.

ursel doran
ursel doran

THANKS much much for the great history lesson good Sir.
Resembles Vietnam does it not, with technology vs masses???
Even with the Russian and minor Chinese help technology went down in flames and the embarrassing defeat.

I get sick to my stomach watching the Afghan debacle of war profiteering. TV programs showing our guys with three or four,
million dollar armor plated monster vehicles with five or six guys inside going out to check out a report of a $50 IED. Our wounded air lifted with a multi million dollar helicopter burning $100 a gallon jet fuel to the best medical facility possible, on and on.

Tragic comic opera for profit. Little people dying for corporate profiteering .

Stucky

“burning $100 a gallon jet fuel ”

Fuel in Afghanistan costs our military $400 a gallon. Yes, it’s true.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR

Greetings,
I’m both a fan of British Historian John Keegan that wrote about Agincourt and William S. Lind father of 4th Generational Warfare theory. That said, it doesn’t matter what you are doing so long as your enemies are playing by a different set of rules. If you design a system to go defeat, say, Aircraft Carriers and your enemy doesn’t have, need nor care about aircraft carriers then you’ve made a fatal mistake. That may sound obvious but we built billion dollar submarines under the guise of fighting the Taliban which fight from a land-locked location and doesn’t even have a navy.

Sometimes, it doesn’t take all that much to disrupt the Old Order. Napoleon, for example, was able to kick the livin’ crap out of everyone around him by simply having an Army that elected its own officers and promoted soldiers based upon merit instead of Nobility. French soldiers marched into battle under the direction of officers either elected by the men or promoted into higher positions based upon real world military merit.

This was quite different than, say, the Austrians who handed out military titles based up a person’s position within the Nobility. After all, the Nobility were SOOOOO much better than everyone else. Naturally, they should be put in charge of the military units based upon nothing more than tradition.

Napoleon’s Generals came from the common people. In that group, you will find men that enlisted as Privates and attained the rank of General. You will find clerks, a wax maker, artists and, if memory serves me well, a priest. These common folk ran circles around the Nobility of Europe such that Napoleon could even do what Hitler could never do – Take Moscow!!

James the Wanderer

Another difference is that we do not fight with all the weapons at our disposal. From your example, the aircraft carriers and submarines – we did not arm them with nuclear bombs. How long do you think the Taliban would have held out against them? Likewise, the Russians didn’t use their nukes in Afghanistan either – too close to home? In any case, when we wanted to end WWII we did use nukes – twice. The enemy folded, thank God, enough death at one time will do that. But we wanted to change “hearts and minds on the ground” instead of reduce the enemy to desperation and defeat. We haven’t really wanted to WIN a war since WWII – so we haven’t.
Before you start with the “heartless” routine, understand this – if you are not determined to win, to use any weapon, tactic or forces necessary to accomplish this, you won’t. I am not arguing the morality, wisdom or humanity of using nukes – only that by not using them (or, say, overwhelming force, savage tactics or round-the-clock bombing, as other examples) you cannot defeat a determined enemy. And we haven’t, since 1945.

Unreconstructed
Unreconstructed

Don’t know how many readers remember the late Charlie Reese, but he wrote that the reason that no one has used nuclear weapons since WWII is that they haven’t figured out how to make a profit from it.

Ottomatik
Ottomatik

James- It is pretty clear to all who look, it was not the use of atomic weapons that forced Japanese surrender. We were destroying cities left and right, with far greater body counts, and far more destruction, with unhindered conventional bombing.
It was Stalin’s launching 1,000,000 men into Manchuria and decimating the last military forces Japan had, along with all of their resource base, that ultimately secured Japanese surrender.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR

You can’t at all be serious about using nuclear weapons against people riding around on donkeys. It is exactly that thinking that presents us with the money black hole associated with destroying targets worth thousands by using missiles that cost millions. Sure, you can set a new world record for Pyrrhic Victory but why would you want to?

In an interview, Bin Laden was asked why he poked and taunted the United States when it was clearly obvious that his organization had no chance in defeating the United States. He said the United States would wear itself out chasing phantoms around the world and that the only person that had the power to destroy the United States was George Bush and he was doing an excellent job of it.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Let ‘s watch mechanical dog advance through WWI strings of barbed wire. Puppy on a leash.

Mangledman
Mangledman

Amen!! If it makes footprints, it can be caught. Track it awhile and observe how it manages obstacles. A pattern emerges, set your trap there.

Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

Seems like you could throw a net over it and tangle it up. Throw a bunch of acid on it like those London youfs do, know what I mean?

Things like this are why I walked away from the institution of higher learning I attended. What is the point of them?

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

Baling wire and baling twine thrown up in the path of drones of all kinds will bring them down or tie them up fast and cheap. Figure out a way to launch and disperse something like shredded grocery bags in the path of any kind of turbine like a helicopter and they are farked as well. Defense does not have to involve multi-million dollar machines.
The IRA finally got the Brits to seek an agreement in N. Ireland when they took out a helicopter with a home made SAM missile designed by some sympathizers in Massachusetts. A model rocket engine hooked up to a backyard motion detector with a programmable microchip. Could exceed Mach 1 for a short distance. I bet you could make dozens to hundreds of these for the price of a government procured MANPAD.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao

Man, can some of you people write ! Great piece, HSF, thank-you !

‘There is nothing new under the sun’…..perhaps, this time is different BECAUSE they are smarter, control more power, have superior technology, are that much more assured of even greater conquests than ever before ?

“And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. ”

Perhaps, the procession of the equinox has completed a great cycle (mayan long count), and the freemasons that founded the Land of the Plumed Serpent, Americu; are aligning with their god according to a celestial calendar of some sort, and have determined that now is the time to unleash a ‘chaos’ that has not been seen since before the Flood. And with the proper blood letting….to incarnate Apollyon !?

The money line- “And for those of us who have never aspired to power, never desired fortunes at the expense of the impoverished, there is the memory of the mud of Agincourt and what fell there six centuries ago”-

“vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord”…..but the fed- up- fleshly part of me prays I find myself ‘waist deep in the mud’ !!

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum. “When our founders declared a new order for the ages…..they were acting on an ANCIENT HOPE THAT IS MEANT TO BE FUFILLED ” U.S. Pres. George W. Bush, January 20,2005, second inaugural address.

P2
P2

Well done HSF! Well done!

yahsure
yahsure

I think if the gov. doesn’t start getting its act together and consider the bullshit being put upon the public. They will have angry people start a second revolution. The second amendment is there for a reason.

Stucky

” They [French] outnumbered the English cohorts by as much as 6:1 ”

Right at that point, before reading further, I just KNEW it would be the French that lost. Pussies … it’s a French thing.

Damned fine article!! I LOVE a good history story, and this one was terrific …. followed up by a brilliant analysis how it applies to our current situation. (I’m just surprised it didn’t make “Featured Article”).

Stucky

My distant cousin, Pepe Le Stuckee’, sent me this in response;

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Which pretty much mirrors what HF wrote’ —> “This was a perfect example of 4G warfare against an opponent living in a 3G world. “

MN Steel
MN Steel

I seem to recall the French lost to the same Little Brown Men.

And it sure is a good thing we let Uncle Joe beat them evil goose-steppers, or everyone in the world would be speaking the praises of Allah…

Oh, wait…

daddysteve
daddysteve

If it wasn’t for the French , you’d be British.

Mary Christine

. Your writings are far and away better than this author I am linking below.. I think it is more of a “how to” than anything else. If you decide you should read it, I expect you to laugh at the high heel, pearl, glove, dress wearing women in this novel…please. Otherwise, I think there are some very good suggestions on how to take out the progressives.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Anyone who doesn’t think that these things are being designed for use against US in the near future, has not been paying enough attention.

Robert Gore

HSF

I love history lessons. Great article, and you did an artful job of weaving the past into the present. I’ll post it tonight. Take care of yourself.

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable

HSF your writing reminds me of a wonderful book series that depicts what could happen if electricity no longer works is the “Dies the Fire” series. I’ve read the first 3 in the series and they’re nothing short of amazing.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

We don’t use tactical nukes because small nukes would then be used on us, the same reason the Russians, Jews, and even crazy Arabs etc also have the good sense to not use them.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

What a wonderful article.

Llpoh
Llpoh

I have read many times in here how “they will never get self drive trucks to be able to drive on ice!” I called bullshit, and I still call bullshit.

Y’all see that dog-thing walk on ice? Down hills in rough terrain? And they will make them better and better and better. Anyone think in ten years that they will not be able to have a truck that responds appropriately on ice, in skids, in panic stops? Really? They have robots that can run, jump, recognize obstacles, etc. already.

The day is coming. The day is coming fast.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

That day may be coming but I just read that Walmart is hiring a lot of drivers to compete with Amazon. There appears to be a little time left.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

LLPOH…the robot problem is an easy fix……they love a sexy toaster…when they’re humping the crap outta’ one….zap’em

Not Sure

In an overwhelmingly large world, full of weapons of mass destruction, your article refreshed my hope that if I have to face an enemy, his overconfidence may well be his undoing.

But what enemy will I face? I see two kinds, the goernment type, with their technology advanced killing ability, or the starving masses, once they realize you have what they need to live another day. Training the mind to not give in when faced with overwhelming odds against you, or facing off against a formerly “nice family” now desperate to survive are some of the inner prepping that must be developed along with the outer prepping.

I hope you are healing well, I know it will be a long road, but not having any setbacks can be seen as small blessings on the way to getting better. Thanks for moving into historical commentary, there is still much to learn from our past that your insightful mind will unlock for us, many thanks for keeping us encouraged as we hope we encourage you!

No one
No one

So, then the French started planning the Maginot line, another technological barrier to defeat.

HSF, this is most excellent. I do hope it is NOT chapter one of your memoirs.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

No, just another one of those things that I always thought about. Certain battles resolve (or introduce) issues that are not necessarily military in nature. They say more about the social order or the much larger cultural rise or decline than they do about armies and officers. And it is one of the most perfect example of ‘audentis fortuna iuvet’ in western canon.

Oilman2
Oilman2

HSF –

In keeping with your thoughts:

ROBOT + BOLO = FAIL

Francis Marion

Yep.

Martel's Hammer

Simply not giving up is usually sufficient in 4G warfare. Oddly the Palestinians have indeed given up and been bought off at the leadership level when they could have/should have been able to defeat Israel.

The simple idea that the elites, the technologically superior, the numerically superior simply make a bad assumption about the willingness of the opponent to quit makes all the difference. E.g. George Washington having served with distinction (and some epic fuck ups) in the British army knew that “not losing” was the winning strategy against the most powerful military in the world. Sure we had some help from the French towards the end but for 3 years Washington managed to not be defeated.

A country boy can survive.

We are a nation filled with people with a will to fight and die for freedom……and will not go gently into the good night of tyranny. We have been in opposition to insurgencies for two generations now in every environment on this planet. The permanent establishment grossly underestimates the abilities of former military spread across the heartland of America……when fighting for their own homes and freedom. Technology, Weaponry and numbers don’t matter, wars are won in the will.

Think about gun confiscation. How successful would that be if implemented under a new Dem/Socialist regime (say in 2021)? Well, the first couple will go just peachy, sort of like the 27 Battle Rattled thugs who raided Roger Stone. Then the police get ambushed, then they get followed home and then they stop coming and can’t leave the police station safely and have to wear balaclavas constantly etc. Movement, communications, supply train all totally compromised……..rinse and repeat.

You never know what the trigger event will be, we have shown great tolerance for the tyrants and now that seems to be wearing pretty thin.

22winmag - PFC Frank reporting for duty
22winmag - PFC Frank reporting for duty

Your sir, get it.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

When I read about folks who have determined that in a USA meltdown the rag tag citizens will be helpless against the mighty US military….makes me laugh at the notion we are defeated before the battle has begun.

Like others who have posted, the high tech goodies are easily in most cases destroyed or rendered useless, without power be it constant flow of electricity or recharging those bodily electronics will be discarded for the more conventional “Eye Sight”…LOL .

I’ve mentioned here before about the full auto shooting fest we had a while back. To refresh those new to the site…we had dozens of weapons which in turn we fed from a U-haul truck full to the top with ammo. There were several mounted machine guns that included a 50 cal. The American people are well armed and in a lot of cases,well trained. I’m headed to another long range shooting class next month .

I’m always cognitive about the facts that a superior army has been defeated many times. My own personal hero and local homeboy Francis Marion kicked the crap out of the British on numerous occasions . He was another of those small in stature military hero’s who stood tall against the best military minds of England.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

Maybe you could produce an article about the class?

Scott halloween
Scott halloween

A good story, well told. Thank you.

22winmag - PFC Frank reporting for duty
22winmag - PFC Frank reporting for duty

Folks, wake the fuck up.

This dog is touted as the pinnacle of human achievement in robotics and to a lesser degree, AI.

What a fucking joke.

Now, apply the dogs DISMAL performance around ice and cinderblocks to pretty much everything out there *which is better done by humans* that these pseudo-scientist fools with their technological terrors are TRYING IN VAIN TO REPLICATE.

Picture the dogs sad performance- as a stock market day trading algorithm.

Picture the dogs sad performance- as the state of pre-crime AI algorithms.

Picture the dogs sad performance- as the sad state of science and education in the USA.

And so on and so on.

22winmag - PFC Frank reporting for duty
22winmag - PFC Frank reporting for duty

Hey Hardscrabble,

Maybe you’ll get a kick out of this image, as the chunk of granite should be instantly recognizable to you. It should actually be instantly recognizable to anyone who claims to be a student of history or a fan of liberty. Do you care to translate and explain this image to the many fine commenters here? Hopefully your recovery is speeding along.

Yours truly,
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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

That’s between Goffstown and Weare about half an hour south of me. That was NH’s version of the Boston Tea Party when some guys were fined for stealing the King’s Pines- we still have a stand of them with the actual arrow mark on their trunks- so the townspeople ran the tax collectors out of town after whipping the tar out of them.

And legend has it that NH granite millstones never wear out.

Don’t know the guy with the invisible rifle.

22winmag - Unreconstructedsouthernedbygraceofgod
22winmag - Unreconstructedsouthernedbygraceofgod

You’re talking to him.

Anyway, you might go a step further by mentioning the violent Pine Tree Riot both preceded and encouraged the subsequent non-violent Boston Tea Party.

Every time I hear the Boston Tea Party was the *first* act of resistance against the British, I cringe.

Why do I cringe?

Because it wasn’t the first act of resistance. Facts matter. That falsehood puts the spotlight on Boston, MA and the Green Dragon Tavern rather than Weare, NH and the Pine Tree Tavern where it belongs.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

Agreed. No one knows much American history anymore and the more they remove older books from libraries for offending modern sensibilities and tearing down statues and monuments, the less there will be to know.

If you are in the Weare area still you should drive up for a visit and say hi. I’ll show you where the pines are if I’m walking by then.

22winmag - Unreconstructedsouthernedbygraceofgod
22winmag - Unreconstructedsouthernedbygraceofgod

You can count on it… weather permitting. I’ll be in touch someday soon.

nkit
nkit
hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

That was beautiful, the mix of images and lyrics. I never heard of those guys but they remind me of one of my favorites, Poco.

j ob
j ob

We were shown this years ago in Afghanistan when IED’s became the weapon of choice of the Taliban. Simple, effective and inflicting unimaginable injuries on our troops.

The rulers of war will never learn.

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