Voödoo 6 von Inyanga's Threads

Jul 23 • 9 tweets • 5 min read

You know what. Let’s talk about the Thompson.

It wasn’t the best sub machine gun of World War 2

But it was by far the coolest

https://twitter.com/6voodoo/status/1815555196812145016

With its half wood, half metal construction it blended old and new just like the Second World War did.

It was the end of the old world, and the beginning of the new.

Jul 18 • 5 tweets • 3 min read

I get it. Americans love fighting by the Marquess of Queensberry rules, always have

Most American wars, have been relatively civil.

But look at World War 2. It was really three separate wars

Soviets vs Germany
US/Uk vs Germany
US vs Japan

Two of these were horror shows…why?

Why did the Eastern Front and the Pacific see brutality unlike the Western Front?

The answer is the conduct of the enemy.

Japan brutalized civilians, starved and executed prisoners (when they took them). It is no wonder the former begat the later

Jun 25 • 21 tweets • 7 min read

I get it, you hate the government. It lies to us. You are right. But holding up a guy who was at best an ineffective journalist, and at worst helped to kill Americans is not the middle finger to the man you think it is.

Julian Assange is not the hero you make him out to be

I'll leave out all of the "he is a Russian/CIA/NSA/Mossad/MSS/Big Fridge asset!!!" because he might be, but that is entirely besides the point and can't be proven

He is like many other edgelord heroes... does one thing that can be interpreted as cool, but real failed. Miserably

Jun 7 • 29 tweets • 11 min read

We live in a zero defect culture, and the slightest offense can render past good deeds moot. However our national also loves a heroic achievement, set against the odds where the stakes are desperately high. We must learn to honor the heroism, like at the Battle of Chapultepec

1/ By September of 1847, the Armies young United States were closing in on the capital of the descendants of the Conquistadors in Mexico City.

Jun 6 • 13 tweets • 6 min read

Have had some Port, so we are going to talk about 1917… which is a great movie.

But mostly it’s great because every officer with a real role in the story is a good officer. The movie eschews the traditional out of touch and dumb officer trope for something better

Here we go

Major General Erinmore

Erinmore is by far the most interesting officer in the movie, mostly because he is the polar opposite of the “lions led be donkeys” myth.

He is caring, competent, and open minded. He does what a good general should. He analyzes the situation, and then sends men into the fight.

He also quotes Kipling

May 29 • 11 tweets • 4 min read

Alright rag bags listen up, I hate this and boats and the water, so let’s get this over with.

There is a fundamental misunderstanding of why Battleships stopped being used after WW2. Blame the pre-Aliens History Channel.

Battleships stopped being relevant not because of the rise of airplanes, but because 1) the limitations of their offensive firepower and 2) only one navy could afford them, and their enemy fielded none. There were to be no Jutlands in WW3

May 26 • 35 tweets • 10 min read

Memorial Day Thread- Paying tribute to those that died is an abstract thing for many, even amongst some who served. The randomness of death in GWOT brought through IED's and rockets made it in a way impersonal. So I wanted to share the story of the men who died at Bari Alai.

1/ There are many myths of the GWOT, one of which was that the United States always enjoyed tactical superiority over its enemies. While in general this was certainly true, there were times and places where the mountains and valleys of eastern Afghanistan belied this myth.

May 13 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

One night we were on an observation point, watching some route and some village and heard a bunch of small arms fire coming from an Iraqi Police outpost we worked with.

It had been kind of a wild month, so in the interest of teamwork I decided to go check it out. It was 4 am.

https://twitter.com/hav2rtrnvdeotps/status/1789804943546700093

Left 2 of 4 vehicles on the OP, and drove the 4 miles down there. Got to the IP outpost, and it was clear something was up. Lights were out, the IP were not at the road checkpoint and there was a shot up empty car parked in front.

I got out, grabbed two dudes and went looking

May 2 • 17 tweets • 15 min read

What your Favorite WW2 Plane Says About You.

Buzzfeed bought the farm so I’m taking over. Plane had to have fought in WW2, and had to have over 500 in operation you autist nerds.

This is a totally objective assessment and as always:

1. You are the older brother of a way cooler dude. It's cool, your younger brother was better, and stronger, and faster, but you were you and you did ok kid. No one can take that away from you big Brohana.

Apr 30 • 9 tweets • 5 min read

A great piece by @realErikDPrince , on where a nation and her military currently stand.

It is missing one part which is understandable, the topic is huge: We have no national strategy. We meander from crisis to crisis. We have become a nation of firefighters: without a good hose

https://twitter.com/im_1776/status/1785270456460657127

We have no national doctrine, no set of principles or strategy to guide our decision making, mostly because those in charge have no principles, and their useful idiots in government are just that: idiots.

The article does a great job touching on this, but it goes deeper.

Apr 29 • 8 tweets • 3 min read

We may hear some talk about securing objectives, counter attacks, and actions on objectives in the next couple of days…

A primer on the topic, and why it is so easily jacked up.

A gunfight is a mind altering thing. Surviving a close quarters gunfight is an experience that defies description, but one thing is certain: you will not be thinking clearly after.

The mind focuses on its objective like a laser. Find the immediate enemy and kill it.

Apr 15 • 8 tweets • 3 min read

It helps to understand the Iranian missile strike if you think about it in the context of East vs West, and just call the Iranians Persians.

See Eastern Armies are the experts at pokes and prods, they hit, and run, and try to get you off your position and onto theirs.

Easterners lack the strength and the discipline to come straight a prepared enemy, which is fine, it isn't a judgement, it is just a different, less decisive style. They lack the mentality to recognize the fastest way to win a battle is to put your spear through a face.

Apr 5 • 50 tweets • 18 min read

There is a difference between tactics and strategy: one that decides the fate of civilizations. Western war (the professional kind) is more than a collection of random battles won or lost. This is a thread on how Ukraine squandered it’s best chance to win the war in April 2022

1/ First, some ground rules. I don’t care about your globohomo conspiracy theories. I don’t care who is right or wrong. I don’t care that the illuminati and the lizard people are secretly controlling Zelensky. This is analysis. Do some peyote and tell your dog. They might like it

Apr 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

Midway into the hot part of Iraq when American troops had basically no defense against most IED's despite years of MDIC promises something was coming, a frustrated solitary troop bought a toaster from a local bazaar, broke it down, and stuck it on a long pole.

https://twitter.com/benkohlmann/status/1774784983032340507

You see, the some insurgent groups had started to use passive infrared sensors as triggers, this made side attacks more deadly, especially with Shia EFPs which cut through the lightly armored HMMWV's like a hot knife through butter.

Mar 29 • 32 tweets • 12 min read

One never knows how loyalty is born. We talk about the individual and how history on occasion will place a great test on one man. Those men have a decision: Do I sacrifice myself for my brothers, or do I save myself. History remembers the loyal, like at the Battle of Nimy in 1914

1/ We remember the Western Front of the First World War as a war of trenches and attrition, of artillery and gas. But as three great armies bore down on one another in the summer of 1914 on the fields of Belgium, it was very much a war of maneuver.

Mar 13 • 23 tweets • 8 min read

Alright troops, school circle.

We brought the IT nerds in to talk about TikTok, and how your criticism of a TikTok ban, while well intentioned and full of righteous suspicion, is probably misguided.

This isn't about the social evils of TikTok, or psyops, just security.

The discussion comes down to two questions.

1. How is TikTok uniquely bad and worse than others

2. What is the role of the US Government in protecting its citizens from large corporations and how does that differ when there is a national security risk aspect?

Mar 8 • 24 tweets • 9 min read

Modern society and social media demand instant gratification, but history shows us that sometimes the best victories are won generation to generation, with each handing the next a brick in the wall. How a father saved Europe in the Second Mongolian Invasion of Hungary in 1285.

2/ In 1241, the Mongols were the dominant military power in the world, stretching from Korea in the East to the very borders of modern Europe. With the defeat of the every nation to the east, only two states, Hungary and Poland stood between the Mongols and Western Europe.

Feb 20 • 10 tweets • 4 min read

There are two gun types of serious gun people.

1. Gun guys. Love guns, love talking about guns, love reading about guns, have at least one piece of gun swag.

2. Guns as tools guys. I don’t really talk about my hammer, but I will if you want to. I train but it fits into my life

https://twitter.com/literalinu/status/1759985131085873248

Both are fine, this isn’t making fun of Group 1. Lots of good dudes in that group, veterans and non.

But Group 2 is bigger. They view their gun as a tool, and they view their ability to use it reasonably well as paramount. They don’t care what their MOA is, they are zeroed.

Feb 9 • 30 tweets • 9 min read

1/ For centuries, sons followed their ancestors into armies, often at the recommendation of those ancestors. Nations are strong when this chain remains unbroken. What happens when that chain breaks? Let us talk for a minute about the U.S. and the Mutiny of Hyphasis in 326 BC.

2/ We all know Alexander the Great. Macedonian, good general, got it. Moving on. What you might not know is that Alexander faced not one, but two mutinies from his Macedonian troops. Most famously at Opis in 324 BC, but also two years earlier on the banks of the Hyphasis River.

Feb 8 • 7 tweets • 3 min read

Alright. If you are done crying, listen up.

It comes down to your ability to influence events, and luck.

Risk is usually defined by probability of occurrence vs severity of occurrence.

How likely is something to happen vs how bad is it.

Real bad things happen less

https://twitter.com/th3v0t4ry/status/1755281516379115605

On the scale of bad, a pickpocket is more common than a carjacking which is more common than nuclear apocalypse.

You take measures to lessen probability and impact and mitigate your risk, but it isn’t perfect

Feb 7 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

Alright, fuck it I’ve had some Rum we are doing the “how do Officers ruin everything, and how they made Toby Keith songs cringe”

First, Toby did nothing wrong. Ever. I don’t even like country music and I can name like five of his songs. He was great

That being said, it’s clear the lyrics of some of his songs, shall we say, became a little incongruent with the zeitgeist of the GWOT. It became clear that while we “put a boot in their ass” that it wasn’t doing much good and “mother freedom” wasn’t going to “ring her bell”

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