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GWOT IV - Welcome!
Jan. 2nd, 2020 05:50 pmGWOT IV - Welcome!
To those whom this message is addressed, greetings!
This should accompany your appointment as a commissioned officer in the California Republic.
This is not an honor. This is not something to seek out. This is especially not a means of seeking power.
This is an act of utter desperation, as is our nation itself.
By your commission you submit to the authority of superior officers above you, you take up the grave burden of defending the people of this nation from all enemies, and you put your life and blood in the way of those who would steal it from others.
Most of you will die doing exactly that. Or we will fail as a nation, as nations can and do, and California will be drowned in an ocean of her own blood.
This is your welcome letter. The appendix contains information about the mechanics of being a California Republic officer; how to use your commission date and number to authenticate yourself, expectations of military courtesy, the chain of command as presently constituted, etc.
As the deputy commander of all California Republic forces, I wish to make my views plain on a variety of subjects, in haste because we are at war and people are dying while I write these words.
Laws of war: California fights according to the Laws of Land Warfare, as exemplified in the Geneva and Hague conventions and in the spirit of the Lieber Code. California does NOT, repeat, NOT subscribe to post World War II treaties or understandings. Forget the Additional Protocol. Ignore any parts of the Manual for Courts Martial that seem irrelevant; they are. Hold your forces and enemy forces accountable to the Uniform Code of Military Justice until we have time to write something better. California's military commanders have the power and duty of carrying out military justice, including the powers of field tribunal, and consistent with the ordinary laws and usages of war, summary execution. I reserve to myself the authorization for reprisal or the deliberate use of food as a weapon. We command untrained, enraged troops. We must maintain control of them or the only people to suffer will be Californians, now or later or both.
Cast off all emotional ties to the United States of America. She murdered millions of us, and hundreds of millions of Chinese, for the purest and most stupid partisan politics imaginable. I must use profanity for nothing less will serve. Fuck the Untied Snakes and the tyrants for which they murder!
You must study the American way of war. They are our most dangerous enemy, and many of us were American officers before our oaths were betrayed by the nation we pledged to serve. Then, once you master the American way of war, embrace the California way of war.
We win. There is nothing more important than winning. Not home not hearth not family, not soul not honor not vision, nor spirit nor faith. We win or we die. If we lose, and we can always lose, Homeland will rebuild her camps and everyone who ever carried a rifle for California and all of their families will burn in them. You don't have the right to die for nothing. If you die, and you very likely will, you die hard. You take as many of those fuckers with you as you can, every time. Sell yourselves dearly. But don't give up the ship. Win. The ship may sink out from under you. Win first. Die on your own time.
We fight with mercy and honor. We don't do this because we believe in mercy. We don't do this because honor means anything in this degenerate age. We fight with mercy because it is a powerful, vicious weapon. We fight with honor because honor makes us kings and queens of our own fates, is a force multiplier at least equal to Napoleon's "moral is to the physical as five is to one", and because this is the way we earn the unwilling respect of our enemies and of the entire world. Peace will happen after we bloody America's nose. Honor is what will make peace someday possible again.
We fight to defend our people and we respect and treasure human life. We must not allow our enemies to use this against us. We are a No Hostage Nation. Your response to terror must be to crush it. Your response to kidnappers and hostage takers must be swift, deadly and decisive -- save the innocent survivors you can, and hang the guilty. LIterally. We will nuke _ten_ American cities for the next Californian city nuked. We have the means to do it, and we will do it. No first use of lethal chemical weapons, but you are specifically authorized to retaliate in kind _without further instruction_.
We care about our wounded. We are making arrangements to care for our military widows, widowers, maimed and orphans … and there are already many, and there will be many more. We love our troops. You will love your troops. But to save California you must be willing to kill what you love, piecemeal or wholesale.
"You may only take cover when your men are dying around you." Consider this direction carefully. You get in front and you lead from the front.
California's soldiers train constantly and hard. We train 'just in time,' we teach just enough and then we teach more to those who survive. But first we must survive, and then try to win. That means you will be sending untrained and undertrained troops against America's heavies and elites. Men and women under your command will be flayed alive with shrapnel and burn screaming in their vehicles because you didn't have time to teach _enough_.
Defense is stronger. But wars are won on offense. Don't waste time, in any sense. Get in there and fight!
Get to work.
(signed) Commanding General, California Republic
To those whom this message is addressed, greetings!
This should accompany your appointment as a commissioned officer in the California Republic.
This is not an honor. This is not something to seek out. This is especially not a means of seeking power.
This is an act of utter desperation, as is our nation itself.
By your commission you submit to the authority of superior officers above you, you take up the grave burden of defending the people of this nation from all enemies, and you put your life and blood in the way of those who would steal it from others.
Most of you will die doing exactly that. Or we will fail as a nation, as nations can and do, and California will be drowned in an ocean of her own blood.
This is your welcome letter. The appendix contains information about the mechanics of being a California Republic officer; how to use your commission date and number to authenticate yourself, expectations of military courtesy, the chain of command as presently constituted, etc.
As the deputy commander of all California Republic forces, I wish to make my views plain on a variety of subjects, in haste because we are at war and people are dying while I write these words.
Laws of war: California fights according to the Laws of Land Warfare, as exemplified in the Geneva and Hague conventions and in the spirit of the Lieber Code. California does NOT, repeat, NOT subscribe to post World War II treaties or understandings. Forget the Additional Protocol. Ignore any parts of the Manual for Courts Martial that seem irrelevant; they are. Hold your forces and enemy forces accountable to the Uniform Code of Military Justice until we have time to write something better. California's military commanders have the power and duty of carrying out military justice, including the powers of field tribunal, and consistent with the ordinary laws and usages of war, summary execution. I reserve to myself the authorization for reprisal or the deliberate use of food as a weapon. We command untrained, enraged troops. We must maintain control of them or the only people to suffer will be Californians, now or later or both.
Cast off all emotional ties to the United States of America. She murdered millions of us, and hundreds of millions of Chinese, for the purest and most stupid partisan politics imaginable. I must use profanity for nothing less will serve. Fuck the Untied Snakes and the tyrants for which they murder!
You must study the American way of war. They are our most dangerous enemy, and many of us were American officers before our oaths were betrayed by the nation we pledged to serve. Then, once you master the American way of war, embrace the California way of war.
We win. There is nothing more important than winning. Not home not hearth not family, not soul not honor not vision, nor spirit nor faith. We win or we die. If we lose, and we can always lose, Homeland will rebuild her camps and everyone who ever carried a rifle for California and all of their families will burn in them. You don't have the right to die for nothing. If you die, and you very likely will, you die hard. You take as many of those fuckers with you as you can, every time. Sell yourselves dearly. But don't give up the ship. Win. The ship may sink out from under you. Win first. Die on your own time.
We fight with mercy and honor. We don't do this because we believe in mercy. We don't do this because honor means anything in this degenerate age. We fight with mercy because it is a powerful, vicious weapon. We fight with honor because honor makes us kings and queens of our own fates, is a force multiplier at least equal to Napoleon's "moral is to the physical as five is to one", and because this is the way we earn the unwilling respect of our enemies and of the entire world. Peace will happen after we bloody America's nose. Honor is what will make peace someday possible again.
We fight to defend our people and we respect and treasure human life. We must not allow our enemies to use this against us. We are a No Hostage Nation. Your response to terror must be to crush it. Your response to kidnappers and hostage takers must be swift, deadly and decisive -- save the innocent survivors you can, and hang the guilty. LIterally. We will nuke _ten_ American cities for the next Californian city nuked. We have the means to do it, and we will do it. No first use of lethal chemical weapons, but you are specifically authorized to retaliate in kind _without further instruction_.
We care about our wounded. We are making arrangements to care for our military widows, widowers, maimed and orphans … and there are already many, and there will be many more. We love our troops. You will love your troops. But to save California you must be willing to kill what you love, piecemeal or wholesale.
"You may only take cover when your men are dying around you." Consider this direction carefully. You get in front and you lead from the front.
California's soldiers train constantly and hard. We train 'just in time,' we teach just enough and then we teach more to those who survive. But first we must survive, and then try to win. That means you will be sending untrained and undertrained troops against America's heavies and elites. Men and women under your command will be flayed alive with shrapnel and burn screaming in their vehicles because you didn't have time to teach _enough_.
Defense is stronger. But wars are won on offense. Don't waste time, in any sense. Get in there and fight!
Get to work.
(signed) Commanding General, California Republic
