Day: October 22, 2024

Wisconsin Army National Guard Reaches Recruitment Target For First Time In 7 Years

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Wisconsin Army National Guard Reaches Recruitment Target For First Time In 7 Years

By focusing on personalized mentorship, creating flexible opportunities for service members and developing a stronger and more integrated marketing campaign, the recruiting team has engaged a wider range of recruits. This increased messaging and flexibility helped them to accommodate recruits with childcare, career, and educational opportunities, ensuring that enlistment remained a viable option for diverse individuals.

LTC Hellenbrand adds, “It’s about showing potential recruits how military service can fit into their lives while providing opportunities for growth and stability.”

Despite these obstacles, leadership, culture and vision played a vital role in the successful recruitment campaign, a feat that had eluded the Wisconsin Army National Guard for nearly a decade.

Related:

05-13-2024: ‘We’re asking for the public to pay attention’: WI National Guard facing recruitment crisis

“The environment is just so much more challenging for us to get into the hearts and minds of Wisconsin citizens,” said Hellenbrand. “The propensity to serve or the interest or likelihood that a person will ever learn about the military or approach service is at an all-time low.”

2003: Psyops employed to sap Iraqi spirit (shock and awe)

Further, psyops units carry none of the glamour associated with elite SEAL and Green Beret units. Indeed, if anything, psyops is associated in the public mind with the largely unsuccessful effort to “win hearts and minds” in Vietnam.

USS Beloit to be commissioned on Nov. 23

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
USS Beloit

USS Beloit to be commissioned on Nov. 23

Navy says all aboard to USS Beloit

Navy Announces Commissioning Ceremony for the Future USS Beloit

The future USS Beloit (LCS 29) commissioning ceremony will be livestreamed at www.dvidshub.net/webcast/35146. The webcast will begin at 9:45 a.m. CST and the ceremony begins at 10 a.m. CST, Nov. 23.

Scheduled from Nov 23 2024 10:45 AM EST to Nov 23 2024 12:15 PM EST: WEBCAST: USS BELOIT (LCS 29) COMMISSIONING

USS Beloit prepares for launch

Clausewitz or Engels?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Once technological advances can be used for military purposes and have been used for military purposes, they will immediately almost forcefully, and often against the commander’s will, cause changes or even revolutions in warfare.

Who said it? Carl von Clausewitz or Friedrich Engels? I saw it quoted in a paper by the China Aerospace Studies Institute (attributed to Engels). Considering that it’s the “think tank” of the Department of the Air Force, I’m not taking the contents of the paper at face value (same with the papers that I posted below). I’m more interested in who said it, anyway. FYI, I only have Volume 1 of “On War” and apparently it’s the “wrong” translation. I’m too busy reading Mao to read Clausewitz. I find it interesting what I find when researching stuff, though.

Engels’s Second Theory: Technology, Warfare and the Growth of the State

Thesis Title: “The First Red Clausewitz”: Friedrich Engels and Early Socialist Military Theory, 1848-1870 by Michael A. Boden (United States Army Command and General Staff College)

The racial and class question

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The racial and class question

Virtually forgotten due to the discourse of Ukrainian unity and the general lack of interest in analyzing the nuances of events, the racial and class question is going virtually unnoticed in this war. If the Donbass conflict had a proletarian aspect that the press mocked in the first weeks of the DPR due to those Soviet-looking press conferences of workers and academics, in the current context, there have not even been any such comments. Presented as a war of national liberation, no aspect other than nationalism has deserved much mention in the Western press or in academia. Volodymyr Ishchenko and Ilya Matveev, who have sought to study the class aspect in the outbreak of the conflict, are the rare exception. To Ischenko’s surprise, RFE/RL published an article last September that dealt, albeit in generalities and without great depth, with the increase in inequality that war implies, an aspect that is, on the other hand, perfectly evident. “As the war drags on, the gaps in Ukrainian society are widening,” the American media headlines.

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