Increasingly, so-called weak actors employ irregular warfare to successfully challenge the strong. The British, French, and Americans are recognized for their irregular warfare experience, but the comparatively rich German tradition remains overlooked. German contributions to irregular warfare, in fact, rival their reputed expertise in modern maneuver warfare. This thesis surveys German irregular warfare cases from the eighteenth century forward. Beginning in the American Revolution, Hessian officer Johann Ewald revealed important counter-insurgency principles. In the early nineteenth century, Carl von Clausewitz spoke to the larger idea of people s war and noted its efficacy. In a peripheral theater of World War I, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck mastered the art of irregular adaptation and survival. In the Second World War, Otto Skorzeny perfected the strategic commando raid. After serving in the same war, Friedrich A.F. von der Heydte published a theory of modern irregular warfare, unique for its views on terrorism and the combined employment of irregular and other forms of warfare. Otto Heilbrunn studied partisan warfare and endorsed pseudo operations to counter asymmetric threats such as those faced by the United States today. German irregular warfare offers strategic answers to contemporary security challenges.
German Views of Irregular Warfare
Recommended:
OTTO SKORZENY "My Commando Operations"
He was a tactical genius, and we can learn a lot from him, on how to structure our operations against our enemies! You gain like 20 points on manliness, after you have finished this book!
https://archive.org/details/OttoSkorzenyMyCommandoOperations/page/n1
Otto Skorzeny (12 June 1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian born SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a string of operations, including the removal of Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy from power and the rescue mission that freed the deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from captivity. Skorzeny led Operation Greif, in which German soldiers infiltrated enemy lines using their opponents' languages, uniforms, and customs.
mirror:
https://archive.org/details/MyCommandoOperationsByOttoSkorzeny1995OriginallyInGerman1975/page/n1
Not really a book per se but reading the presidential archives yields some juicy redpills
The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as D[isplaced] P[ersons] as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/diary/page21.htm
Across space and time for millennia, the observations on Jews stays consistent. They are always evil.
Across space and time for millennia, the observations on Jews stays consistent. They are always evil.
Thats why we must counter them!
Lets read a 7 page summary from a Navy Seal about Discipline and Leadership:
https://paulminors.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Extreme-Ownership-Book-Summary.pdf?x30467
PART I: WINNING THE WAR WITHIN
The leader is truly and ultimately responsible for everything. That is Extreme
Ownership, the fundamental core of what constitutes an effective leader in the
SEAL Teams or in any leadership endeavour.
On any team, in any organization, all responsibility for success and failure rests
with the leader. The leader must own everything in his or her world. There is no one
else to blame.
The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take
ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.
It falls on leaders to continually keep perspective on the strategic mission and
remind the team that they are part of the greater team and the strategic mission is
paramount. Each member of the team is critical to success, though the main effort
and supporting efforts must be clearly identified. Alternatively, when the team
succeeds, everyone within and supporting that team succeeds. Every individual
and every team within the larger team gets to share in the success. Accomplishing
the strategic mission is the highest priority.
Simple
Simplifying as much as possible is crucial to success. When plans and orders are
too complicated, people may not understand them. And when things go wrong, and
they inevitably do go wrong, complexity compounds issues that can spiral out of
control into total disaster. Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner
that is simple, clear, and concise.
If your team doesn’t get it, you have not kept things simple and you have failed. You
must brief to ensure the lowest common denominator on the team understands.
Prioritize and Execute
But a leader must
remain calm and make the best decisions possible.
To implement Prioritize and Execute in any business, team, or organization, a
leader must:
Evaluate the highest priority problem.
Lay out in simple, clear, and concise terms the highest priority effort for your
team.
Develop and determine a solution, seek input from key leaders and from the
team where possible.
Direct the execution of that solution, focusing all efforts and resources toward
this priority task.
Move on to the next highest priority problem. Repeat.
When priorities shift within the team, pass situational awareness both up and
down the chain.
Don’t let the focus on one priority cause target fixation. Maintain the ability to
see other problems developing and rapidly shift as needed
Take responsibility for leading everyone in your world, subordinates and
superiors alike.
If someone isn’t doing what you want or need them to do, look in the mirror first
and determine what you can do to better enable this.
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do
SS Werewolf
"In the ruins of what once was National Socialist Germany, a small force of dedicated partisans continued on with the fight – the “SS Werewolf” insurgents. Their resistance was short lived. This is the combat manual they [supposedly] used to wage a guerrilla campaign against Allied and Soviet Occupation, presented here in both German and English."
https://media.8ch.net/file_store/742cadf9c391e862b36e28de64f7bf3de26b68e4c654c2fab10338e934d92571.pdf
Read this book to become literally an UBERMENSCH!
It is short and contains all the wisdom of all all philosophers of the last 2500 years. The book was written around 1650.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Balthasar Gracian
http://www.andrewburke.me/media/Gracian.pdf
Create a Feeling of Dependence.
Not he that
adorns but he that adores makes a divinity. The
wise man would rather see men needing him than
thanking him. To keep them on the threshold of
hope is diplomatic, to trust to their gratitude
boorish; hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad
one. More is to be got from dependence than
from courtesy. He that has satisfied his thirst
turns his back on the well, and the orange once
sucked falls from the golden platter into the
waste
-
basket. When dependence disappears,
good behaviour goes with it as well as respect.
Let it be one of the chief lessons of experience to
keep hope alive without entirely satisfying it, by
preserving it to make oneself always needed even
by a patron on the throne. But let not silence be
carried to excess lest you go wrong, nor let
another's failing grow incurable for the sake of
your own advantage.
Mirror:
A Man at his Highest Point.
We are not born
perfect: every day we develop in our personality
and in our calling till we reach the highest point
of our completed being, to the full round of our
accomplishments, of our excellences. This is
known by the purity of our taste, the clearness of
our thought, the maturity of our judgment, and
the firmness of our will. Some never arrive at
being complete; somewhat is always awanting:
others ripen late. The complete man, wise in
speech, prudent in act, is admitted to the familiar
intimacy of discreet persons, is even sought for
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I have a request, anons.
I am someone that is interested in making a political career. any recommendations of books that could help me with starting it?
Bonus points for material about developing of oratory or realpolitik skills.
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I don't know any books on the subject, but reading any book out loud will help your speaking voice. Speak it out as though you're reading to someone else.