I just finished reading a book about the Russo-Japanese War in the early 1900s.
The Russian Army and Navy got their clocks cleaned by the Japanese.
Few people realize the effects this had on the Russian people.
The losses were astounding.
A European Army lost to an Asian Army.
It was humiliating.
Then WWI came along and the Russians got beat again.
The author of the book makes the case that the Russians were defeated because they selected their military leaders based on their politics, and not on their war fighting abilities.
Does that sound familiar?
"....Again, radical organizers are there to fill the void with extremist agendas and to provide targets (“white men,” “white supremacy”) for mass animosity. There is, however, a new aspect in the familiar template: In the United States, nihilist intellectuals are not just exploiting the value vacuum created by changes in social structure and the advent of new technologies; the void is in fact their own creation."
It’s going to take a Chosin Reservoir event, or worse, for us to get our heads out of our nether regions.