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"The Forgotten Citizen Soldier"
Episode 9

Orientation: You are being briefed by Gen. Lance and his trusted advisor Sgt. Barnes.
Situation: Straight from the Commander's tent on the frontline, you are listening and learning.
Mission: You will listen, learn, and apply leadership and military knowledge from Guy Sajer.
Execution: You, legionary, will sit your ass down and put me in your ear hole and shut your face hole.
Administration/Logistics: You will check the hyperlinks on the given transmission for further PME and Combat Gear.
Communications: Signals and Communications will be relayed over Substack. Transmission will be available on demand.
Commander's Intent: You, legionary, will imbibe a warrior spirit and leadership ethic. You will walk away with a better military understanding of the Russo-Ukraine War. You will learn about the warrior archetype of the Citizen Soldier. You WILL feel the need to buy Sgt. Barnes a bottle of Jim Beam (respect and trust your NCO's).
https://lanceslegion.substack.com/p/the-forgotten-citizen-soldier#details

Odessa remains without electricity and water

⚫️ Ukrainian publics report that the residents of Odessa, following the electricity, were turned off the water supply to their homes due to the consequences of strikes on critical infrastructure.

https://twitter.com/Spriter0000/status/1601886659486023680

Best denoscription I have found of defence in depth (Verteidigung in der Tiefe), especially its early form. The battles around Mouquet Farm were considered the best fighting of the Germans in World War I.
https://odysee.com/@derschattigewald:8/verteidigung:e

"Napoleon had nothing but his own soul. Through it he won all his battles; through it he was an unheard leader of men, an infinite administrator; who dared to rot Europe in the hands of God, and hoped never to return. It was by his soul at last and his soul alone that he had the glory of being wrong as no man had wronged before him, and to be shot down at the end, being only the Announcer, not by the furious hostility of a few humiliated kings, but by the coalition of all centuries and by the juiceant of the French Revolution that withdrew from him, having carried him to the peaks.”

- Leon Bloy, The Soul of Napoleon

"The state bears the expense of the hunting for the reason that the training it gives seems to be the best preparation for war itself. For it accustoms them to rise early in the morning and to endure both heat and cold, and it gives them practice in taking long tramps and runs, and they have to shoot or spear a wild beast whenever it comes in their way. And they must often whet their courage when one of the fierce beasts shows fight; for, of course, they must strike down the animal that comes to close quarters with them, and they must be on their guard against the one that threatens to attack them. In a word, it is not easy to find any quality required in war that is not required also in the chase."
~ Xenophon

Xenophon describes the education of Persian men, what they focus on and years of service:

Boys: Justice, self-control, hunt training. Until 16-17 years old.
Youth: Nightwatch, self-control, hunting, hunt training and public games, garrison and legal service. For 10 years.
Men: General service, military expeditions. For 25 years.
Elders: Legal service, judicial decision. Until death (? Not stated.).

In On the Customs of the Persians Herodotus states:

'Their sons are carefully instructed from their fifth to their twentieth year, in three things alone,— to ride, to draw the bow, and to speak the truth.'

The most intelligent men like the strongest find their happiness where others would find only disaster, in the labyrinth in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort their delight is self-mastery, in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity an instinct.

- Freidrich Neitzsche

"They have their so-called “Free Square,” where the royal palace and other government buildings are located. The hucksters with their wares, their cries, and their vulgarities are excluded from this and relegated to another part of the city, in order that their tumult may not intrude upon the orderly life of the cultured."
~ Xenophon, Cyropaedia

"The divisions remaining at home, in their turn, pass their time shooting with the bow and hurling the spear and practising all the other arts that they learned when they were boys, and they continually engage in contests of this kind with one another. And there are also public contests of this sort, for which prizes are offered; and whatever division has the greatest number of the most expert, the most manly, and the best disciplined young men, the citizens praise and honour not only its present chief officer but also the one who trained them when they were boys. And of the youths who remain behind, the authorities employ any that they may need, whether for garrison duty or for arresting criminals or for hunting down robbers, or for any other service that demands strength or dispatch."
~ Xenophon, Cyropaedia

"Such was the education that Cyrus received until he was twelve years old or a little more; and he showed himself superior to all the other boys of his age both in mastering his tasks quickly and in doing everything in a thorough and manly fashion."
~ Xenophon, Cyropaedia

Putin is not eternal, he is just a man like us and he won't have long left In power no matter what happens in regards to the war.

As we speak the Russian Elites are turning on eachother, the people are restless, poorer and angry about the SMO even if they support it or they don't, when Putin is gone there will be another Russian power vacuum worse than the 90s, and morph into a crisis similar to 1917, be ready for it.

The economic situation globally is causing severe unrest and this should absolutely be exploited, do whatever you can to make people turn on the government and the global capitalist system, it too is not eternal.

Now is not the time for the common people to allow ourselves to be distracted or divided, this is a once in a generation opportunity to gain serious momentum, don't waste it

Best of luck to all of you, victory is there for the taking.

-Koba

Don't really agree but it's interesting to consider.

Cyrus was already proven in manliness at 12 years old, and sent on for youthful education.
I can imagine studying justice and hunting would be more difficult to prove oneself than modern education.

"Such was the education that Cyrus received until he was twelve years old or a little more; and he showed himself superior to all the other boys of his age both in mastering his tasks quickly and in doing everything in a thorough and manly fashion. It was at this period of his life that Astyages sent for his daughter and her son; for he was eager to see him, as he had heard from time to time that the child was a handsome boy of rare promise."
~ Xenophon, Cyropaedia

"When Astyages dined with his daughter and Cyrus, he set before him dainty side-dishes and all sorts of sauces and meats, for he wished the boy to enjoy his dinner as much as possible, in order that he might be less likely to feel homesick. And Cyrus, they say, observed: “How much trouble you have at your dinner, grandfather, if you have to reach out your hands to all these dishes and taste of all these different kinds of food!”
“Why so?” said Astyages. “Really now, don’t you think this dinner much finer than your Persian dinners?”
“No, grandfather,” Cyrus replied to this; “but the road to satiety is much more simple and direct in our country than with you; for bread and meat take us there; but you, though you make for the same goal as we, go wandering through many a maze, up and down, and only arrive at last at the point that we long since have reached.”

“But, my boy,” said Astyages, “we do not object to this wandering about; and you also,” he added, “if you taste, will see that it is pleasant.”
“But, grandfather,” said Cyrus, “I observe that even you are disgusted with these viands.”
“And by what, pray, do you judge, my boy,” asked Astyages, “that you say this?”
“Because,” said he, “I observe that when you touch bread, you do not wipe your hand on anything; but when you touch any of these other things you at once cleanse your hand upon your napkin, as if you were exceedingly displeased that it had become soiled with them.”

“Well then, my boy,” Astyages replied to this, “if that is your judgment, at least regale yourself with meat, that you may go back home a strong young man.” And as he said this, he placed before him an abundance of meat of both wild and domestic animals.
And when Cyrus saw that there was a great quantity of meat, he said: “And do you really mean to give me all this meat, grandfather, to dispose of as I please?”
“Yes, by Zeus,” said he, “I do.”
Thereupon Cyrus took some of the meat and proceeded to distribute it among his grandfather’s servants, saying to them in turn: “I give this to you, because you take so much pains to teach me to ride; to you, because you gave me a spear, for at present this is all I have to give; to you, because you serve my grandfather so well; and to you, because you are respectful to my mother.” He kept on thus, while he was distributing all the meat that he had received."

~ Xenophon, Cyropaedia