Part 4: The Real Spanish Inquisition

A nation of mindless animals can't construct things like this, because it required diligence, intellectual capacity, and discipline.  These types of structures are throughout Spain.  Thus, the Montanus Tale of Spaniards being beastly Satanic terrorists was the Montanus Farce.  The year after it's publication, the 80 Years War began.  Propaganda does start wars.  However, Calvinist fanatics were infiltrating the Netherlands in disguise, in 1567.  Thus, it was actually the 81 Years War.

The great outrage in anti-Catholic propagandists harping on the anonymous & uncorroborated 1567 horror story for the past 450 years ... without first consulting the vast Inquisition archives ... and without acknowledging the entire absence of physical evidence ... is that those people are condemning the existence of the Catholic Church today, by pushing a 450 year old war propaganda that was proven to be a hideous exaggeration, in the first place.   They are basically saying, "You have to shut down ... or shun ... or destroy ... the Catholic Church of today, for something that was said to have happened 450 years ago, without evidence to prove that it happened."  Even today, Protestant preachers outright claim ... or insinuate  ... that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon ... and that the pope is the Antichrist.  

For the record, the Herod Dynasty was the Whore of Babylon of the Apocalypse, and ancient Rome was the Beast of the Apocalypse.  And of course, Herod mocked Jesus, while waiting for him to perform magic tricks.  Rome then executed him.

This endless promotion of the Montanus Tale is especially a defamatory outrageous, in light of the fact that Henry VIII's England was the true nightmare, as was the German Peasant Rebellion opponents who saw to the killing of 100,000 of the 300,000 participating peasants.  Oliver Cromwell's massacre of the Irish in Drogheda was just as true a nightmare as the German Peasant Massacres, and Elizabeth II calling for an all-out persecution of the Catholic Church in the 1580s is a continuation of the same nightmare.   Yet, Protestant propagandists shown themselves to have no sense of compassion or empathy.

Now, even the British government posthumously condemned Cromwell as a criminal.  Yet, the Protestant preachers of today never acknowledge the murderous acts of Cromwell.  They simply insert, upon occasion,  mention of the Montanus horror story version of the Spanish Inquisition.  It was easily proven to be a hoax, through the employment of non-lazy historians who have no trouble over the idea of scouring through ... sifting through ... the 130,000 case files in the Spanish Inquisition archives. 

Once again, the 1994 BBC documentary titled, THE MYTH OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION, is linked directly below, for your convenience.

See:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhlAqklH0do      

In having stolen all Roman Catholic Church property in England, and after having killed Roman Catholics by the cartload, Tudor England needed to develop an exaggerated and therefore false excuse for the murders and thefts.  They had to demonize Roman Catholics, even though England was Roman Catholic for the prior consecutive centuries.  So, they officials declared the only church which traces back to the original apostles the Whore of Babylon.    

Thus, British Protestants were out to defame their own ancestors.  Or at the least, they would find a way to make their ancestors look like the repressed victims of that evil evil Catholic Church known for minstrels, fairs, knights, castles, religious charity organizations, monks making hand-written copies of the Bible, religious pilgrimages, cathedrals, and Saint Francis of Assisi, as well as Clare of Assisi; not to mention Thomas a Becket, and the Thomas More who was executed directed through Henry VIII.

Being that there was a rebellion in the Netherlands against the Hapsburg Dynasty who happened to also rule Spain, war propagandists needed to make the Spanish look so horrifying that the Dutch would want all links to Spain severed. 

Central Europe's Lutherans and Calvinists needed to do the same, being that the King of Spain was also the Holy Roman Emperor.  Thus came the hyper-exaggerated horror story of the Spanish Inquisition, published in Heidelberg in 1567.  However, more people were executed in the Netherlands for heresy than in Spain, between 1557 and 1562.  So, where are all the horror stories about the Dutch Inquisition?  Well, the horror story about the Dutch would come to be that they would rise as the literal masters of the Atlantic Slave Trade, adversely affecting the lives of 500,000 black (sub-Saharan) Africans.

Now see historian & researcher Henry Kamen, fellow of the Royal Historical Society:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akzLwWRKi1c

Below:  The Toledo branch of the Spanish Inquisition, slightly south of Madrid.   

That overly theatrical & anonymously written 1567 text resulted in the 80 Years War, one year later.  It would result in the NORTHERN Dutch leaving the Roman Catholic Church and then becoming the literal masters of the Atlantic slave trade, until 1814.  

The Dutch trafficked in approximately 500,000 African lives, thereby causing tremendously more harm on humanity than any European inquisition ever could.  The Netherlands would also be a nation of legalized piracy, in hijacking hundreds of Portuguese & Spanish ships, while claiming to be "predestined" to Heaven, according to the Calvinist Protestant doctrine.   

Moreover, on two historic occasions, popes shut down the slave trade, even 16 years before Columbus was even born; [1] Canary Islands, January 13, 1435, Pope Eugene IV. [2] Philippines, April 18, 1591, Pope Gregory XIV.

In a third instance, in 1537, the reigning pope at the time officially banned slavery in the Americas.

All in all, the demonizing of the Roman Catholic Church was done, in order to justify the stealing of Catholic Church real estate, via edict & decree in the following European places:

[1] England, by secular edict, [2] Scotland, by secular edict, [3] Denmark, by secular edict,  [4] Norway, by secular edict, but not until two years after Henry VIII robbed the Church in England,  [5] Sweden, by secular edict that was "abrogated" for a short while and which was later placed back into force,  [6] Finland, by secular edict,  [7] Saxony, by outright disobedience to imperial orders,  [8] Brandenburg, by "elector's discretion," concerning a 1526 law, until the law was "reversed" in 1529,  [9] Zurich Switzerland, Geneva Switzerland, and other German and Swiss territories.

Furthermore, the 1567 horror story coincidentally was published when the Catholic government of the Netherlands counter-attacked the rebels who were literally rioting and smashing Catholic church statues without paying for the damages caused.  Statue Smashing is called Iconoclasm.  In as much, the statue smashers could now use the very defamatory 1567 horror story to claim that the Catholics of the Netherlands were evil and must be defeated.  However, the irony to this consists in the fact that European law always used to require TWO corroborating witnesses, in order to effect a conviction.  The Montanus Horror Story did NOT have a corroborating witness account.   

Shock Troops like Ninjas & the Trojan Horse

In 1568 Calvinist "shock troops" came into the Netherlands dressed like beggars, in a tactic much like the Trojan Horse event.  They were called the Geuzen, and they came to kill.  Thus, the 1567 horror story published in Heidelberg was deliberate war propaganda for the Protestant-Catholic (or Catholic-Protestant) wars.

And remember:  The King of Spain also was the King of the Netherlands, and he also was the Holy Roman Emperor.  Thus, the propagandist who fabricated the "Montanus Tale" painted the picture of a common Spaniard so vile that the Dutch would want to have nothing to do with the king of those Spaniards.  That same king who happened was also the king of the Dutch.  In this way, the lying propagandist(s), "Montanus" was trying to recruit soldiers for the Catholic-Protestant wars.  And of course, Winston Churchill once stated that, "The first casualty of war is the truth."  Before evil people attack, they first lie about the enemy.   They demonize their targeted victims.

The 16th Century Version of Tokyo Rose

You need to read about the Hapsburg Dynasty.  In as much, the Protestant Revolt was not against Catholicism alone.  It was also against the Hapsburg Dynasty.  Thus, the 1567 horror story about the Spanish Inquisition which has ZERO EVIDENCE to support its claims was nothing more than war propaganda.  Whoever wrote it was the 16th Century version of "Tokyo Rose."  (which see)

Also remember that, at its beginning, Protestantism was literally forced upon Northern Europeans, via governmental decrees, aka kings' edicts.  It was shoved down Northern European Roman Catholic throats, under penalty of law.  Protestantism was too new to have been the popular religion of the People.  And of course, by the death penalties given by the "Protestant Reformers,"  the number 2 casualty in the "Protestant Reformation" was "freedom of thought."  The Number 1 casualty was Truth & Kindness. (Biblical phrase from Isaiah.)

The Protestant movement was the act of secularizing Christianity.  It was the act of taking a cult founded by a seizure disordered German and turning it into a national religion throughout Northern European jurisdictions.  The act of shoving 16th Century Protestantism down Europeans' throats was no different than Lenin, Mao, and Madalyn Murray O'Hair shoving atheism down 20th Century people's throats. 

Now think! Volumes of evidence exist for the Nazi Holocaust.  None exist for the Darth Vader version of the Spanish Inquisition.  You don't have to be the useful idiot of the anti-Catholic megachurch & backwoods preachers out there.

For those who missed it, the Spanish Inquisition is entirely on record, in archives

Concerning the true horror story of the 16th Century, between 1557 and 1562, more executions transpired in the Netherlands than in Spain.  Yet, the Castile Crown's population was 7 million and Aragon was an additional million, while the Netherlands' population was 2.4 million.  This means that Spain should have had at least three times more executions.

Here's something the brainwashed will refuse to believe:  Spain did NOT execute women for witchcraft.  In the Spanish Inquisition data that I personally saw, I saw a grand total of ONE woman in Spain who was executed for witchcraft.   Now, let's follow a trail of facts:

A Matter of Identity

There is the matter of the identity of the author(s) of the 1567 Heidleberg publication that detailed the overly theatrical accusations against Roman Catholic Spain, where within the Spanish were called "animals."  Great racism there, Montanus.  The writer identified himself as "Reginaldus Gonsalvius Montanus."  Needless to say, there is no such case file in the Spanish Inquisition archives.  So, the pro-protestant people who make the conjectures ... as well as the disingenuous propaganda, claim that Montanus was Casiodoro of Reina.  

Well, years after the modern Protestant conclusion as to the identity of Montanus, TWO authentic letters of the time span were found by a certain historical society.  Casiodoro de Reina was definitely mentioned in one ... but only one ... and only in the footnotes. 

That letter mentioned that 17 Spanish monks had gone awol (absent without leave) and apparently traveled north, to Protestant country.  De Reina was mentioned as one of the 17 monks.   Mention was made that the run-away monks would be sought, in northern Europe.

This means that Casiodoro de Reina was reported as being at-large ... and NOT in a Spanish Inquisition torture chamber.   And then, Casiodor was "heard from again."  He was in GENEVA SWITZERLAND, saying that Geneva was the new Rome.

The one blatant piece of evidence which proves 100,000% that either Casiodoro was deliberately lying in the Montanus Tale or else he never wrote the Montanus Tale in the first place:

An official letter which served the purposes of a dispatch reported that Casiodoro and 16 other Spanish clergymen renounced their Catholic Faith and made it into Northern Europe.  The same dispatch stated that any available soldiers under his Highness, Ferdinand I, would search for those 17 ex-clergymen.  Got it so far?   

Okay now, IF Casiodoro had been found by any of the king's soldiers, he would have been sent to none other than THE NETHERLANDS, and NOT to the Spanish Inquisition.  This is because the King of Spain and the King of the Netherlands was the same one Hapsburg family member.  Moreover, you are sent to the jurisdiction of your crime.  Conspiracy to harm Northern European Catholics ... or to steal Catholic Church real estate ... or to damage Catholic Church property is such a crime.  And a lot of that type of activity was occurring in Northern Europe, including Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Being sent to an inquisition meant that you were going to "go in for questioning," and the jurisdiction where a crime was committed was important.  Now, there is no crime in walking away from your monastery in Spain.  The question was what were Spanish ex-clergymen doing in a geographic area where ex-clergyman promoted the attacking of Roman Catholics and the acquisition of Roman Catholic Church property without paying for it.  So, what was the intent of the Spanish clerics who denounced their faith and went to the Catholic-Protestant war zone? 

A decisive question to Casiodoro would have been what was he doing in Northern European, when he was known to have no business there, and when he was a Spanish monk either lived off of the donations of the people or lived off of the selling of monks' bread or other food source?  These men did take vows of poverty, after all.

As a quick note:  There is a difference between a monk and a friar.  A friar is usually the member of a mendicant order.  A Mendicant Order is one were the order lives off of the donations of the people.  Monks create a product to sale.  In the Trappist monastery where I was a long-term guest, the Trappists made jam and sold it at the grocery stores.

The fact that Montanus claimed to have been a witness to the transpiration of the Inquisition in Spain, amongst "vile Spanish animals," instead of IN THE NETHERLANDS, shows us that Casiodoro de Reina either did NOT write the Montanus Tale or that he wrote it with the full intent to tell defamatory falsehoods in his writings.  If he did write the tale which had zero evidence to support it and zero corroborating witnesses to support it, he wasn't making a honest mistake.  He was engaged in severe malice.

Now, if any of you out there insist on pushing the defamatory version and the Montanus Tale, while declaring Casiodoro the poor poor victim of the Spanish Inquisition, when he showed up in Geneva in one piece, then we can continue this conversation before an United States federal magistrate, in a multi-million dollar class action (AND DIVERSITY ACTION) lawsuit.  And of course, from my personal experience, Catholic Bashers have a severe mental & emotional illness where they will not rest until the see every Catholic on Planet Earth is dead.  They are obsessed to a deadly degree . . . from my very unfortunate personal experience.  Also from my recent personal experience, lawyers are very expensive today, if you're not related to one.

More about the Casiodoro de Reina who would have been taken to the Netherlands Inquisition and NOT to the Spanish one, if any law enforcement official of the king would have caught up with him.

He is the one who translated the Bible into Spanish.  HOWEVER, there were previous translations of some of the Bible into Spanish.  None the less, the motive of modern Protestant propagandists in presenting him as the sure author of the UNSUBSTANTIATED & UNCORROBORATED Montanus Tale is to enable the propagandists to present Casiodor as this holy and heroic martyr going up against the evil evil Bible suppressing & Bible hiding Catholic Church.  The great lie of this is that, if not for the Roman Catholic Church, there would be no Bible:

[1] The Roman Catholic Church preserved and made copies of the Bible from the first day the Council of Rome declared the specific books of the Bible to be THE BIBLE.  [2] The Catholic Church several times each day in official church liturgy.  This include EIGHT time daily in the Divine Office, aka the Book of Hours, and three times per mass, each mass, on Sundays, as well as TWO times per each weekday Mass.  [3] And there are Bible class throughout Catholic academia in Church history. used th all the way until the 1054 Schism with Greek Christians. [4] Roman Catholic Church stained-glass windows often are illustrations of Bible passages.  Such was the act of beginning the Gospel to the Poor.

It has been a deliberate lie of the Protestants to state that Catholic never use the Bible.  As an example, go through this one website and count the Bible quotes in the most recent 5 posts.  Catholic writers use a lot of Biblical citations-references.  None the less, Casiodoro was used in the modern Protestant story of the Montanus Horror Story, to make him look like he was being tortured for making the Bible available to the People, behind the Catholic Church's back.  The truth is that the Catholic Church has been the care-taker of the Bible who even made Bible Picture Stories out of stained-glass for everyone to see.  

Protestants defame the Catholic Church so hideously, because there is a lot of tax-free collection basket money in conning Catholics to leave the True Church for their very fake church.  That fake church is comprised of hundreds of splinter churches.  Those splinters are known as denominations.  Protestants don't even agree with each other.

And of course, anti-Catholic propagandists of today make it sound as if Johannes Gutenberg began the Protestant "Reformation" by printing a copy of the Bible and by separating himself from the Catholic Church as much as possible.  The truth is that the  Roman Catholic archbishop of Mainz (Archbishop Adolph von Nassau) declared Gutenberg "a hofmann" (a gentleman of the Court)  This means that Gutenberg had a financial stipend, as well as free grain and wine, along with a court outfit each year.  Moreover, Gutenberg died a Roman Catholic.

Incidentally, the Gutenberg Bible was only 42 lines in length.  After that was the Mainz Psalter.  It was commissioned by the archbishop of Mainz, in 1457.  Thus, Gutenberg was NOT printing against the Catholic Church.  He was printing while being commissioned to do so, by the Catholic Church.

Protestant Propagandists are deliberate liars.  After all, John Wycliffe was often said by these Protestants to have been burned at the stake by Roman Catholics.  That was another big Protestant lie.  John Wycliffe died on New Year's Eve 1384, from a stroke that he had three days prior.  After 500 years, we vividly have learned that all that you are going to get from Protestant propagandists is lies, lies, and more lies. 

The Other Proof that Shoots Down the Casiodoro Conjecture

Concerning the Protestant claim that Casiodoro de Reina was Montanus, there is one flaming piece of blatant evidence which proves that claim to be either [1] a total falsehood as to it having been written by Casiodoro or [2] a deliberately written lie, by Casiodoro:

There were 16 other renegade Spanish clergymen who left the St. Isidore Monastery the same time Casiodoro did.  This means that several other runaway Spanish monks in Casiodoro's group would have also been witnesses to horrific acts in Spain.  Thus, they would have written their own damning eye-witness accusations against the Spanish Inquisition.  Needless to say, none of the other 16 associates of Casiodoro wrote any such damning testimony.  

The great problem was that they were posing as Roman Catholics while being Lutherans.   And of course, Lutherans already stole immense amounts of Roman Catholic real estate in Northern Europe, though the edicts of kings & electors.

The obvious conclusion is that the horrific Montanus Tale is an account that had ZERO CORROBORATING WITNESSES to it, and therefore, it was no more than a political HIT PIECE that served the function of war propaganda in the Protestant side of the Catholic-Protestant wars.  Such uncorroborated writings are usually deliberate lies.

In Retrospect

 Iron maiden type devices don't show up in history, until the early 19th Century ... in places such as PENNSYLVANIA.  Let's review:  A torture device that an easily deceived person would expect to find at a Spanish Inquisition office was found in PENNSYLVANIA ...  after the Napoleonic Era. (It was found during an investigation of governmental abuse ... a prison warden thing.)

Concerning the Pear of Agony, no mention of such a device shows up, until the 1700s, except for one mention made by a member of the House of Bourbon in the 1600s.  But no mention is made in the 1500s or at any time before the Heidelberg publication of the Montanus book.  Bourbons were NOT know for torturing people.  They were known for warfare and land acquisition, as well as luxurious living.  

I can assure you that the aristocrats of France preferred going to the theater far more than torturing people's non-sunlit anatomical sections.  In fact, the French literally used to take to theater productions persons diagnosed as mentally ill.  So, the French didn't have the Martin Luther mindset, as when Luther told a certain prince to drown a certain mentally ill child in a nearby river.

That piece of Luther's advice is a matter of written record.  Many things about Luther were heavily documented, because they were turning Luther into the Elvis Presley of his day --- into the "beloved Fuhrer" of his day --- the Hollywood star of his time.  Something like that.  And of course, this is what cults do.

For the record, during the 18th Century, the French called the mentally ill "the alienated."  And they did take them to theater productions, as an act of kindness.

Moreover, the French had an aversion to any type of torture, evidenced by the use of the painless guillotine.  And remember, Joan of Arc was given a torturous death in England ... not France.  Very painful and repulsively gore-ridden forms of execution were practiced in England and Scotland long before Henry VIII commandeered every acre of Roman Catholic Church property there.

The Baptismal Certificates of the time are evidence . . . for proving the tale to be a lie.

Oh, and concerning the claim that mass quantities of people were being forced to become Catholic in Spain, okay then, do this:   Show me all of the baptismal certificates of all of the tortured people who gave-in and became Catholic.  When you become Catholic, you go on record, and your record is filed in a parish church.   Ask ancestry experts.

Catholic parishes have registries, you know.  Even the day you received the Sacrament of Confirmation is recorded, along with that of your wedding and funeral -- and perhaps that of priestly ordination which is only done by a bishop.  So, where is evidence of suddenly elevated numbers of memberships of parishes near the torture chambers?  In fact, where are these Spanish torture chambers, anyway?

You would think that, after 456 years of horror stories, at least one blood-stain torture chamber would have been found . . . or at least one Iron Maiden . . . or at least one pear of agony . . . or least one hundred "missing persons reports" filed by wives or adult children or by siblings.  Apparently, people were not being arrested in the middle of the night and taken to torture chambers which didn't exist in the first place.

One more pivotal fact:  You have to go through the Rite of Christian Initiation, before you get baptized.  So, where is evidence of blood-soaked religion textbooks or manuals or handbooks?  Where are the blood-stained classrooms?  Catholicism is NOT the Pentecostal religion, where a guy walks to the front of the congregation, does the "Lord & personal savior" incantation, raise his arms, and then shouts, "Parrrrraise the Lord!  I've bin saved!"  

Moreover, for a Catholic baptism, you need "a baptismal sponsor."  So, where is the paperwork showing all the extra baptismal sponsors of 16th Century Spain?  Plus, plus, plus, baptismal "candidates" are presented to a parish ... or at a cathedral ... at a Palm Sunday Mass.  Where's the evidence of a church-load of torture victims being presented throughout Spain on Palm Sunday?   Even furthermore, it requires approval from a high ranking bishop to have the ordinary baptismal process waived.  Okay then, show me the signed and sealed pages showing the waivers.  Even at that, the names of baptized Catholics still go on record somewhere.  Well, let's see the records.

If the Spanish Inquisition were the horror that "Montanus" claimed it to have been, there would be a lot of documentation of excess Catholic parish membership occurring in the parishes near the torture chambers.  Where is it?

And where are all the skeletal remains and the mass graves?  What happened to the massive population of execution victims Montanus claimed to have existed in 16th Century Spain?  There should be evidence similar to the Jewish Holocaust.  It's NOWHERE to be found in Spain.  

So, this leaves us with a question:  Why are people ... especially in Germany and America ... so easily deceived?   The burden of proof is on all of the anti-Catholic propagandists.   Where's their evidence?   If you don't have any evidence, then you have to make retractions.  It's called "making restitution" for lying to the public on a massive scale.  But of course, Germans have repeatedly been deceived on a mass scale, including during the lifetime of Adolph Hitler ... the Austrian Jew-hater.

Evidence is everywhere for the existence of the Jewish Holocaust.  Evidence is nowhere for the hyper-exaggerated horror story version of the Spanish Inquisition.  Americans need to start using their brain cells, for a change.  There is no law which says that Americans have to remain the useful idiots of lying propagandists.

Okay then, we review:

There's widespread evidence of the existence of the Nazi Holocaust.  There's undeniable evidence that Planet Earth is spherical.  There is no evidence for the "horror-story-version" of the Spanish Inquisition.  In fact, from 1557 to 1562, Spain had less executions than did the much smaller Netherlands.  Even at that . . . 

... Do you really think that people back then were so stupid that they couldn't detect a mechanical dummy ten to fifteen feet away?  And don't you think that there would have been puddles of blood all around, to warn the next guy who walked into that hallway?   The inquisition did NOT set-up Iron Maidens in their courts.  And iron maidens do NOT look like real women.  All in all, the Montanus Inquisition Tale is so ridiculously absurd that no sane person could take it seriously.  Monty Python's cast surely didn't.

Background

One of the Montanus tales was that prisoners would walk up to sharp-bladed mechanical dummy dressed like a seductive woman, only to violently die when they put their arms around it.  Uhhhm, don't you think that each guy would have first said, "Hello," while waiting to hear, "Hello" spoken back to him?  Don't you think that an attempt at a conversation would have started, followed by the Spaniard immediately realizing that he was talking to a mechanical dummy?

Men can tell the difference between a really hot chick and a mechanical device.  Plus, the blood stains would have been everywhere.   All in all, it's very simple to conclude.  The people who believe in the horror-story version of the Spanish Inquisition never read it. It's super blatant bull crap to the sophisticated, 21st Century, high-tech mind reader.  Come out of the Protestant Dark-Minded Ages, people.  Come out of the Protestant Paranoia, before you hurt someone.

Protestants brought no freedom of thought, evidenced by the executions of their opposition.

Let us not forget that Luther was the first German to advocate in writing the expulsion of the Jews from German boundaries.  Luther furthermore directed that it only be done at the hands of government officials in Germany, and not by the common folk.  Well, centuries later, a certain German government complied with Luther's suggestion and turned it into a graphic reality.  

 

 

Here are the fruits of Martin Luther's "reformation" and writings.

                    “Hitler's Kampf und Luther's Lehr Des deutschen Volkes gute Wehr."                           "Hitler’s struggle and Luther’s teaching are the German people’s sure defense."

Luther's Literature:  The Undoing of Christ's Work

Do not be deceived.  Stealing Catholic Church real estate, by the acre, does NOT constitute a Reformation.   There was NO Protestant Reformation.  There was only war after war, even into 1712.   In fact, the 1555 Peace of Augsburg was merely a temporary truce between Catholics and the newly formed Lutherans.  All other religions were left out of the equation.  

Despite the 1555 truce, Protestant-Catholic warfare continued in France, until 1598.  The events, politics, and scorecard on that time span was super complicated, especially the deadly & vengeful dominoes effect of 1572.  It was even cloak & dagger in the unfolding of events thereafter.  That time span would be for its own discourse ... chapter ... article ... webpage.  It can't be reduced to one paragraph.  So we move onward.

St. Francis of Assisi Was the Most Epic & Effective Church Reformer in human history

All in all, Martin Luther's century ... and the century to follow ... were the centuries of War.  In as much, it was St. Francis of Assisi who brought peace to his geographic setting, in the 13th Century.  It was St. Dominic who brought peace to Southern France, during the lifetime of St. Francis.  Luther brought mass amounts of death, even centuries later, at the hands of Adolph Hitler who literally used Luther as a Nazi Party Poster Boy.  St. Dominic literally brought mass conversions to the Catholic Faith, mostly through advocating devotion to the Rosary.

As a review ... in the need to review, review, review:  the hatred of the Jews is a part of Luther's literature, as in the Jews and Their Lies.  Hitler ran with it ... with Luther's hatred of the Jews.   Luther literally advocated running all Jews out of Germany.  HOWEVER, he stated that only the government should do so ... not the common German citizen.  Well, a German government got the common German citizen to exterminate as many Jews as could be captured.

Theft the size of a continent

Luther heavily advocated stealing Roman Catholic Church property, as well.  But of course, he didn't regard it as theft.  He regarded it as driving the wolves from the sheep fields and then having good and holy stewards manage the stolen property.  This would be followed by the stealing of Jewish property, centuries later.  He who started the divisive Protestant religions was also the poster-boy at the start of the Nazi Religion.  Luther was originally Hitler's pope, dating back to 1933.  Very simply, evil is attracted to evil.  

In addition, it was a complete lie to have asserted that Luther "had a premonition of his own death" and that he confessed his sins shortly before dying.  Firstly, he predicted that he would die in Wittenberg.  Luther died in Eisleben (in Saxony-Anhalt.)  Plus, he was aging and simply talked about aging and what was the point in being alive in the first place.  When you get older, death comes to mind.  Therefore, bitterly complaining about life, while drinking pints of beer and/or ale, is NOT the act of confessing your sins, especially when your writings and advice resulted in the deaths of literally over 100,000 people, in the 1520s, alone.

Hitler's Birthday Gift to Luther

Ever-so-ironically, the ruthless Krystallnacht of November 9 & 10 (1938), took place on the 455th birthday of Martin Luther, and it was triggered by a young Polish Jew in France who assassinated a German diplomat, on Nov 7 of that year.  Herschel Feibel Grynszpan killed Ernst vom Rath, triggering tens of thousands of Jews being immediately sent to concentration camps which were actually ready for business in 1933.  

In less than one year after Grynszpan's act of hot-blooded rage, Poland was invaded.  WWII began.  More importantly, in less than one week, Jewish property was vandalized at the point of torches and bricks.  A youth would end up causing another world war.

Incidentally, the first class of people to receive Nazi concentration camp hospitality were the disabled.  Then the gypsies were soundly exterminated.  In fact, 2,579 Catholic priests were sent to Dachau, to die, proving that Hitler and Pius XII were NOT conspiratorial pro-Nazi buddies.  There were not that many priests in Central Europe, to begin with.  Priests are naturally a minority everywhere, due to the nature of their work.  Yet, Hitler gave priests the big x-out ... the big black-out ... the big Nazi farewell.

All in all, the tragic occurrences of  WWI and WWII were both triggered by asinine youths with guns, causing millions of deaths after their acts of murder.  So, if you are wondering how WWIII is going to start . . .

Protestants didn't merely separate themselves from the Catholic Church.  They separated themselves from each other, in forming sect after sect after sect.  After all, Martin Luther and his sidekick, Phillip Melanchthon, condemned the Anabaptists, expressly stating that every member of that sect deserved the death penalty.  In Switzerland, Anabaptist leaders got the death penalty Luther suggested.   Zwingli was soundly condemned by Luther also, as well as was Thomas Muntzer, in his adopted project.  That adopted project was the supporting of the German Peasant Rebellion of 1524-25. 

In addition, the Swiss Protestant Ulrich Zwingli most certainly was in the possession of deadly armaments  when he died in the Second Battle of Kappel, in 1531.  He regularly carried a sword AND a halberd which is carried by the Vatican's Swiss Guard to this day.   It's just that the armies of the five Catholic cantons performed a surprise attack, when a lot of the Swiss Protestant soldiers had their pants down ... sometimes literally.  Zwingli was in the "second line," and he still was caught off-guard.  Thus, he was NOT a mild, unarmed chaplain, as lying propagandists made him out to be.  Even today's Protestants lie and lie and lie some more, to make their founders look good.

Zwingli had his share of personal armaments which easily could take a human life or two or more.  He was as willing to kill as much as he was willing to "live in sin."  Meanwhile, Protestant propagandists are willing to lie in their writings, probably for the sake of getting added tax-free collection basket donations and book sales.  Don't be deceived.  Zwingli was no saint.  

In addition, there were certain Catholic commanders during the Protestant-Catholic wars who were no saints, either.  Add the Spanish Catholic commanders who oversaw the sacking of Catholic Rome.

At this point remember that the geographic region which gave humanity Martin Luther also gave humanity Adolph Hitler.  There were massacres centuries prior to Hitler's reign, dating back to the Black Death of 1348 - 1350, and also during other times --- in the same Germanic region.  Yes, Jews were blamed for the Black Death.  None the less, always remember:  Martin Luther was the undoing of Christ.  Hitler was the confirmation thereof.

In the modern era, Protestant sects even have sub-subsects, as is the case with Pentecostalism which has 32 sub-subsects divided between two subsects.   In fact, there's even a Bapticostal Movement.  Protestantism is a tossed salad.   It's a grab bag used as a party favor.  It's an abstract art painting on a museum wall which compels a viewer to say, "What the Hell is that?"

To divide and conquer has been the game Satan has been playing all along, in splintering the Church of Christ as if it were a board of thinned-out wood.  And remember, Satan is envious of mankind, because God willed to become Man, instead of angel.  Thus, Satan wants mankind annihilated.   After all, it is written, "However, through the envy of the Devil, death came into the world." Wisdom 2:24.

Disunity is the definition of Protestantism, in its divergent sects and in its dissimilar doctrines between the sects.  And of course, division is the Way of  Satan, as in "My name is Legion, for we are many." (Luke 8:30 & Mark 5:9)  

Protestantism discards Mary, as if she were the most worthless being in existence.  The fact that God the Father called Mary, "highly favored daughter," (through the Archangel Gabriel) means nothing to the Protestant world.  The fact that Christ's closest apostle, John, took in Mary and made her a member of his household for life, equally means nothing to these people.  The fact that the Early Church Fathers regarded Mary as the Ark of the Covenant is even more meaningless to these people.   

Even though the Tilma of Guadalupe shows all the science markers of a miraculous image, it means nothing to the Protestant world.  Lourdes Water is ignored by these apathetic people, too.  Their indifference also applies to miraculous hosts, miraculously produced oils, and stigmatic saints, as well as authentically incorruptible saints such as Louis of Montfort, Bl Margaret of Savoy,  St. Savina Petrilli, and Ubald of Gubbio.   Yet, they all claim that God talks to them, in "a word of knowledge."  

They talk about being baptized in the Spirit and performing long-distance miracles, as well as performing a version of exorcism.  So, they do not deny supernatural phenomenon.  They only deny the existence of miracles when Catholics perform the miracles.

TV evangelists, since the beginning of broadcasting, claimed numerous miracles with zero investigators confirming the claims.  That is to say, they have no Lourdes Bureau to investigate anything.  They will say that someone far away here and someone far away there were miraculously cured of this and miraculously cured of that.  Yet, never mentioned the who and the where.  Their followers apparently don't believe that people on TV are capable of lying ... or of even being criminally indicted for fraud in a 4th Circuit district court, on 24 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy ... or for racketeering & grand theft in Florida ... or embezzlement ... etc.  (All the aforementioned things actually occurred.)

A certain low-level church employee who was caught stealing from his employer on a long-term basis once said that adhering to a Protestant sect "is just another way to go to Heaven."  No, it isn't.  It's just another way to go to Hell.   At its inception, it was a way of bringing Hell to the people of Planet Earth.  Those were brutal times.

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For further learning, there is "Defense against Catholic Bashers.  Part 1 is found through here: http://www.theheartofmary.com/2023/02/summit-of-truth1.html

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The reason why "giving them 1789" now will result in "getting Napoleon 1799" later

It's called ANACYCLOSIS and it was discovered by an ancient Greek historian, noble, and government official, named Polybius.  It involves the cycle of governments.

Polybius lived from 200 BCE to 118 BCE, and he was the one put in charge of formulating governments in Greek cities, after the Fall of Carthage & the Destruction of Corinth.  Both events occurred in 146 BCE, 37 years after the Carthaginian king, Hannibal, died in exile.  

Concerning Carthage, it was founded by the Phoenicians.  They would come to have a leader who would who had a seething hatred toward the Romans.  

Well, concerning the Polybius who witnessed the end of the mighty Hannibal, he noticed that governments morph ... change ... in cycles.  The cycles, according to Polybius, go as follows:

Monarchy (which is usually started by a conquering military man who won the trust of his soldiers) eventually transforms into Aristocracy, where a privileged class has developed.

Then, things transform into Democracy, followed by powers being narrowed into the hands of a few.  Such a narrowing results in Oligarchy.

From the Oligarchical class rises a tyrant.  This is followed by Mob Rule, otherwise known as OCHLOCRACY.  This is then followed by the re-establishment of Monarchy.

As of Today

Now, 2,100 years of history have shown us that the Government Cycle is slightly different than the Polybius Model of it.  It has basically shown itself to be:

Monarchy ... transforming into Aristocracy which is actually Oligarchy.

Then comes representative governments, as in Republics of one sort or another.  This has involved "electors," as well as representatives, as well as parliamentary members.  

Oligarchy once again sets in, amongst corrupted representative government officials such as Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff.  

Next comes Anarchy, aka Mob Rule.  After Mob Rule comes the re-establishment of none other than Monarchy.

Above: The musketeer's white cross, worn on their tabards, in their allegiance to the French monarchy.  In as much:

God save the kings to come, being that we want no more ~Nancy Pelosis, ~Chuck Schumers, ~Eric Swalwells, ~Joe Bidens, ~Adam Schiffs, ~AOC's, ~Kamala Harrises, ~Liz Cheneys, ~Dick Cheneys, ~George Bush Juniors, ~Jefferson Davises, ~Hillary Clintons, ~Spiro T, Agnews, ~Richard Nixons, ~Lester Maddoxes, ~Elizabeth Warrens, ~Tim Walzes, ~Jacob Frey types, ~Maxine Walters types, ~Mehmed II types, ~Abdul Hamid II types, ~Selim I types, ~Ilhan Omar types, ~Jamie Raskin types, ~Daniel Goldman types, ~James Buchanan types, ~Oliver Cromwell types, etc, etc, etc, etc.   

For those unaware, Oliver Cromwell was the first British ruler to order attacks upon the American colonies, specifically against Maryland (the only Roman Catholic friendly colony) and Virginia (the first colony to establish a college). 

In addition, the Jefferson Davis trial was cancelled, due to the General Amnesty that the first President Johnson granted to all Confederate combatants, as of Christmas Day, 1868.

Back to France 1789 which lead to Napoleon 1799

The French Revolution WAS Mob Rule.  It was Anarchy, where a small faction in France ... and a small fraction of humanity ... tried to insert itself as the new Oligarchy.  This was accompanied by the overuse of the guillotine.  

In as much, when terrorism starts, you're revolution is over.  See Maximilien Robespierre & the Reign of Terror.

Now, at the start of the French Revolution, there was a Corsican Italian artillery lieutenant in the French Army, named Napoleon Bonaparte.  He was a Second Lieutenant at the time and he was of average height for his era.

Napoleon was neither a 4'11" short guy nor a corporal.  In fact, it was in 1785 when Napoleon graduated from a military academy, immediately resulting in him being commissioned as a second lieutenant.   He was reported to have been quite skilled in mathematics.

Napoleon was called the Little Corporal as a sign of affection by his own troops who were willing to die for him.  Napoleon would ride up to the artillery lines and occasionally load a canon or two, by himself.  Napoleon was a "hands-on leader" and his soldiers admired him for this.  

Then, in 1792, Bonaparte was promoted to regular army captain.  Next came the Siege of Toulon, in 1793, where Napoleon stepped-in after the injury of a pivotal officer.  

He had the influence to get Commissioner Antoine Saliceti to assign General Jacques Dugommier as the prime field marshal of Toulon and to allow the Dugommier Plan to proceed. 

In the end, the French Republicans captured Toulon and Napoleon was eventually given the commission of Brigadier General.  Before this occurred, Napoleon was arrested shortly after Robespierre was executed.  But, in 1795, Napoleon became the Commander of the Army of the Interior.

King Maker

In as much, Commissioner Saliceti was the King Maker of post-revolutionary France which was temporarily Republican France.  Yes, the defender of the French Republic created an Italian emperor.  

Saliceti was a friend of the Bonaparte family, being that Saliceti was born in Corsica, as was Napoleon.  Saliceti succeeded in getting a hometown boy from his own home province to lead France.  

BTW, Saliceti's home province was actually a colony.  Thus, Napoleon becoming emperor ... very unexpectedly ... was like a Hawaiian resident becoming President of the United States.  

It was also like the son of Cuban refugees becoming the United States Secretary of State, as well as an United States senator.  

It was also equivalent to the daughter of Iraqi immigrants becoming a senior advisor to the Attorney General for United States Attorneys.

2028

In as much, if there still is an United States in 2028, I'm voting for either Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis ... unless someone beyond exceptional comes out of nowhere.  

I would also advocate either Rubio or DeSantis becoming US Secretary of State in 2029 to 2032.  Thus, one of them as il presidento and one of them as Sec of State.  

Alina Habba would make for an alert vice president, unlike the absolutely airheaded anti-Catholic one of 2021 to 2024.  Plus, Alina is a female and she's a racial minority.   Bingo City on this choice.

Plus, plus, plus, she's a Jersey Girl.  Thus, us Italian-Americans would feel completely at home with her in office.  She would work well, despite the lying propagandist slurs against her ... made by Democrat Party operatives whose only talent is that of lying to humanity.   

So, the 2028 winning presidential ticket should be either Rubio-Habbas or DeSantis-Habbas.  That's where my vote is going, if voting in the USA is still in existence, come 2028.  

And yes, I officially withdrew from the Democrat Party in July of 2024, becoming an Independent instead.  This is because that party became a thoroughly Sick Joke.  In library book shelves, the Democrat Party needs to be filed under "you've-got-to-be-kidding."

At present there are numerous attempts at having revolutionaries rise in America and elsewhere, to effect anarchy, somewhat like the France of 1789.  It will only result in another Napoleon of 1799.  So, it would do you well to familiarize yourself with Napoleon, as well as Saliceti, in addition to Polybius. 

The Pivotal Question:  Who will be the next Napoleon?  ANS:  The last man standing, literally.  

It will have nothing to do with "seducing the masses" in any kind of a political campaign.  It will involve someone accomplished in having personal discipline and who notices things a lot quicker than the average bear.  

It will involve a grateful people ... somewhere ... who were spared from destruction ... or textbook-defined disaster ... by the individual who, in the end, will be the last man standing ... and who will be able to start society anew.  

There will be no anti-Catholic whores of Willie Brown is the future governments, after the Last Man Standing phase of history transpires.

It will be a matter of everyone formerly in power running for cover, leaving the job up to someone who didn't live the life of oligarchs & aristocrats ... who did not live the life of luxury.  Thus comes the discipline aspect and the ability to suddenly notice things others don't.  Napoleon had that ability.  None the less, even geniuses have their limitations & shortcomings.

All in all, in the 18th Century, the French traded-in a French king for an Italian emperor.  Expect something and/or someone somewhat similar in some way to come about in the near future.  This is because ... history repeats itself.

And remember one more thing:  World War II was won in a wheelchair ... in a wheelchair owned by an FDR who didn't even get to see the end of the war he won.  Julius Caesar had epilepsy.  Claudius had tremors and difficulty walking.  

In addition, Abe Lincoln suffered from severe depression, as did Churchill.  Octavian Augustus suffered from weakness as a youth, and Teddy Roosevelt had severe childhood asthma.  

In as much, rationale is what's needed to rule people; not superior physical health.  Yet, it's the ability to inspire which makes a leader.  Adversity can lead to wisdom of some variety.  Wisdom can trigger inspiration.

As a note to you Americans who regard yourselves as "Bible-believing Christians:"  

Firstly, I believe in the Nazarene as the Son of the Living God, too.  In fact, I believe in those displayed and/or witnessed miracles such as bleeding hosts, the Tilma of Guadalupe, the October 13th, 1917, Miracle at Fatima, the Padre Pio Phenomenon, the Saint Charbel Phenomenon, the January 1938 fulfillment of a Fatima prophecy, etc, etc, etc.  

Thus, I believe in the Bible and then some.  This includes me believing in the power of an officially assigned exorcist, the sacramental absolution from sin, Apostolic Succession in the form of a priesthood, etc, etc, etc.

As far as goes you Bible-Believers claiming that America was founded by the Nazarene, in his divine providence, and that God will save the USA, know this:  

There is no way that an Eternal God is going to save and preserve a political government that slaughtered its most helpless citizens for the past 50 years, to the tune of thousands per day.  These are citizens who never got to see their own mother's faces and who never got to see sunlight.  

God saves people, and not man-made institutions.  God raises kings, and not democrat party politicians who advocate baby-killing and then make millions of dollars off of insider trading, while never creating a single private sector job ... 

... while wasting taxpayer dollars on sex-change operations for sexual perverts who will always have the xy or xx chromosome arrangement with which they were born.  Sex-change operations do not delete the XY Chromosome.

All in all, keep one thing in mind, you Bible-believing Christians out there:

It's Christ the King and NOT Christ the Speaker of the House.  It's Christ the King of Angels and NOT Christ the Majority Leader ... or Minority Whip ... or Party Leader ... or Chairman ... or Commissioner ... or even President.

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Below is an instance of 1789 occurring in late February of 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSXtNCXzagM

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The video of the gentleman below shows that this anarchy is NOT something in the future.  It's already underway.  The gentleman narrating the video below is a black man ... aka a sub-Saharan African American ... and he has over a million subscribers.  He's also a veteran of the US Army.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nStteHi3Pn4

By the way, did you know that a border patrol agent was shot dead by a Transexual, on I-91, in Coventry, Vermont, on January 20, 2025?  If you didn't know this, then it's because you are a low-information puppet who only watches CNN and MS Now, as well as Democracy Now which has nothing to do with democracy ... now or ever.

As for the next video link below:  It will take you to the voices of Bill Maher and Stephen A in the present tense, in what's known as "a reaction" video.  A "reaction video" is a loophole, to get around ... to sidestep ... copyright infringement accusations.  So, listen to what Bill and Stephen have to say these days.  

But first, an ancestry brief of Bill Maher, for the record

Bill and I are both of Irish Catholic ancestry, as well as Mediterranean ancestry.  

Bill's Irish ancestry is from Tipperary, and so too is mine.  This would mean that the statistical chance is that Bill Maher is a descendant of Danish Vikings.  I definitely am, according to advanced DNA testing.

His Mediterranean DNA is Jewish and mine is Italian, both Northern and Southern Italian (aka "Greco-Roman").  Thus, Bill is Eastern Mediterranean and I'm Central Mediterranean.

BTW, Northern Italians aren't Mediterranean.  They're ... we're ... a mixture of the Ostrogoths, the Insubres who founded Milan, and the Boii who were Bohemian Celts of ages past.

Meanwhile, the other half of my Irish ancestors were those classical celts who liked doing the ritual-in-the-woods thing.  I always loved the woods ... far more than the beach scene.  Go figure.

Steeler Country

Concerning Stephen A, I'm from Pittsburgh and he's an avid Steeler fan.  Do the math, there.

All in all, clicking the link below will get you insights from two famous TV stars who actually do think and not just rattle off "approved political party lines."  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVGtY2YvNW0

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The link below:  A thirteen year old got a brutal beaten on school grounds, for supporting Donald Trump and ICE.  This is why events like the Nuremberg Trials transpire, from time to time.  Teachers must pay for brainwashing their students, when they were in charge of educating them, instead.  

Nazis in Germany brainwashed their students.  Today's left is the modern-day Nazi Party.  After all, they arrested Catholics for praying on street corners, during the stolen-presidency of the corrupt hypocrite, Joe Biden ... and his magical autopen which seemed to have a mind of its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVGtY2YvNW0

And remember, there were 13 Nuremberg Trials.  Meanwhile, in the same general time span, there were 28 high ranking Japanese officers put on trial, along with Tokyo Rose.  Seven of them were sentenced to Death, and 16 of them were sentenced to Life in Prison.  Two defendants died during the trials and one was declared unfit for trial, due to mental illness.  

BTW, Tokyo Rose ... namely, Iva Toguri D'Aquino ... was granted a presidential pardon by the Sunday School President, Jimmy Carter, who was well versed in the Bible.  Jimmy was also a Navy vet.  He was also the Three Mile Island president ... and the Iran Hostage president ... as well as the super high interest rate president.

Iva married a Filipino man which explains her last name.  She, herself, was all Japanese in her ancestry, and she was the seventh person ever to be convicted of Treason, in U.S. history.

Today's American teachers and youth think that they are immune to their hate-filled speech and violent actions.  No, they are not.  You'll see.  They'll see.  History repeats itself.  

Stay tuned ... to American current events ... wherever they are being honestly reported, and not hidden by those who hijacked mainstream media and turned it into propaganda outlets such as ABC & Disney, Inc.  [For those unaware, Disney has owned ABC TV since 1996.]

War ::: How to conduct one.

ABOVE:  A depiction of revolutionary France, on July 14, 1789.

BELOW: The real France, 155 years later, at a V-1 rocket site, after a visit from the United States Strategic Air Forces, otherwise known as the Mighty 8th.

 When Your Destiny Places You in the Arena of War ...

1a] The first assignment at the start of every war is that of putting out of commission the enemy's eyes & ears, as well as its ground-to-air defenses.  Hitting radar installations, surface-to-air missile batteries, and communications posts are always Objectives #1, 2, and 3 simultaneously.  Technically, this is the act of putting out of commission the enemy's Command & Control centers.

 1b] Equally important to General Objective #1 is that of disconnecting your enemy from his supply lines and drop zones.  It's far more effective to go behind enemy lines and end your enemy's ability to manufacture war materiel than to go to the front line and bring enemy platoons to their untimely end.  

This means that, if the enemy is being supplied by another nation, then you have to attack the supplier nation, in order to end its ability to supply your main enemy.  If you are not going to do this, then don't go to war against the nation being supplied from elsewhere.

                             

                              Even decorated combat vets taught us that, in war, there are no winners;
                             only the survivors of incendiary, smoke-flooded, and blood-ridden battles.
                               Keep in mind that those who didn't survive also received medals. 

1c] Of course, the other objective at the start of warfare is to achieve air superiority and to prevent your own ships from being blocked at bay.  This necessitates mine sweeping technology which involves the need for wooden ships or similar, in order to prevent those ships from being mine magnets during the mine sweeping process.

1d] Throughout the war, NEVER interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

2] All wars are won in the Research and Development Department ... in the R&D Section.  This includes psychological research and troop training techniques.

2b] Incidentally, the one war which gave military science a treasure of learning in the tactical arts was none other than . . . the tragic & frustrating Vietnam War which was nothing more than a Military Industrial Complex Money Making Endeavor, at the expense of 58,000 American lives and even more American minds.

3] Never order a logistics unit to drive through a town during war.  Have it go the extra distance in circumventing the town, or else it will never drive to anywhere again.  Laziness in war leads to death.

4a] If you see a structure that looks totally foreign and unrecognizable to you, and it's certain that it neither contains civilians nor is booby-trapped, either hit it or commandeer it and reverse engineer it.  

The Nazis had no idea that the metal towers over which their pilots flew were the radar installations that alerted the British of the return of the German Luftwaffe.  The Nazis ignored the British radar installations.

5a]  Shock & Awe is an entire waste of time.  Your enemy will only surrender after he is drained and fatigued, not able to take any more of what he has been enduring.  Wearing down the enemy is more effective than initial shock & awe.  

You must save your most devastating fire power for either defending yourself at the point of attack or for depleting your enemy's stockpiles.  Don't use ordnance for intimidation purposes, because it's a waste of time.  Howe tried to do so at the start of the American Revolutionary War.  He failed in the process.

5b]  It's an erroneous and arrogant presumption to think that you want your enemy to be intimidated and frightened by your arrival, as was publicly stated during the George WMD Bush years.  An enemy thinking that it is to face a strong opponent is one placed in a state of heightened readiness, and this state of awareness will be deadly for many of your troops.

Instead, you want your enemy to be entirely unprepared for you.  You want your enemy to be lackadaisical when you arrive, thinking that you're nothing more than a Gomer Pyle.  

Then, when your fire power strikes the enemy's line, frustration and bewilderment will rocket throughout his psyche, as he drains his emotional strength in trying to handle the fact that something much worse than what he anticipated struck for his jugular vein.  The lesson to memorize is this:

Shock and awe will only work if you were originally underestimated by your enemy.  General Sun Tzu was the author of the time-tested military treatise, The Art of War.  Within it he stated: 

       

Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent.  

Though effective, appear to be ineffective."

 5c] Nothing intimidates a person more than realizing that the poody cat he thought he saw in the distance turned out to be a full scale lion or a pack of wolves on a relentless mission toward him, entirely aware of where he is.  The fear of the unknown will drain the strength out of anyone.  

When the enemy is emotionally drained, he loses the flag waving inspiration to fight back.  There upon, you win the psychological aspect of the war.  If you have not yet triggered the fear of the unknown in your enemy, then you have not yet won the war.

5d]  Achieving air superiority isn't optional in the tactical sense.  The British Navy learned this in Norway, as early as 1940.  When air superiority is guaranteed by one of the warring parties, the war's eventual outcome is generally ascertained.

6] If you're escaping a mall or school that is under attack by terrorists, only crawl three or so feet away from a concrete, stone, or metal-girded wall.  If you are too close to the wall, a ricocheting bullet will hit you.

7] If you are combating drugged-up terrorists, keep firing at each one, even if you already hit each one three times.  Death by gunfire usually comes from the ensuing shock to the body.  A drugged-up terrorist doesn't feel the shock.  Thus, if drugged-up terrorists are in the equation, a gun won't suffice.  You need to hit a major artery ... literally.

 8a] If you are going to dock a ship during war, get your sailors off of it, or else you will have made them sitting ducks.  During the Falkland Islands/Malvinas war between Argentina and England, an exocete missile hit an aluminum clad ship at port.  British sailors were harmed and killed.  Aluminum reaches a higher temperature than does steel.

8b] If you believe that the French are cowards, then how do you explain Napoleon's army and his 56 victories, as well as the French empire, the Marquis of La Fayette, St. Joan of Arc, General Rochembeau,  the Battle of the Marne, Charles Martel, Charlesmagne, Simon of Montfort, the Battle of the Somme, and the Francs' victory over Danish Vikings during the Siege of Paris, and the Maginot Line that the Nazi avoided, knowing it would result in a massacre?

In May of 1940, a million German troops and 1,500 tanks invaded the parts of France and Belgium not protected by the Maginot Line's troops.  It was Operation Sichlschnitt, as in cutting with a sickle.   It was the ultimate flanking maneuver.  Therefore, it was not the French who avoided a fight.  It was the Germans who did.  

Ironically enough, German military personnel were against starting a war on the Western Front.  Some of them attempted to assassinate Adolph Hitler even before the Nazi invasion of France began.  France was the NINTH nation the Nazis attacked.

9] Concerning surrounding your enemy, the danger of drawing your enemy into a trap is that your enemy is becoming concentrated in the process, with a concentrated fire-power ready to be fired upon your forces.  Compacted army units are powerful ones, at least for a short period of time.

Fort Pitt was surrounded, under siege on account of Pontiac dishonoring a treaty.
None the less, the Fort Pitt Blockhouse is still standing, meaning that the siege
failed, as the ancient commander, Sun Tzu,  would have forecast.

10] It's more important to scatter the enemy than to trap and surround him.  A tiger whom you back into a corner will pounce you.  An enemy whom you surround will have an added incentive to fight, along with a dose of adrenaline and focus that your platoons won't have.  So remember, divide and then conquer.

Never provide your enemy with the inspiration to fight.  Surrounding him will put him in the mindset one gets when he has nothing left to lose.  As Gerald Celente once stated, "When people have nothing left to lose, they lose it."

11] Needless to say, the objective in surrounding the enemy is to get the enemy to surrender its surrounded forces.  However:  

I} Governor Paulinus did not have the luxury of surrender to a Queen Boudicca who wanted every Roman on her British Isle dead. ... II} The Francs did not surrender to the Danish Vikings during the Siege of Paris. ... III} The Austrians did not surrender to the Turks during the 1529 Siege of Vienna ...

... IV} Jacobite troops did not surrender to Cromwell's army during the 1690 Siege of Limerick. ... V} Union forces did not surrender to any of the Confederate forces at Little Round Top. ... VI} The Russians did not surrender to the Nazi Germans during the Battle  of Leningrad. ... 

... VII} the Nazi Germans did not surrender to the allied troops at Monte Cassino. ... VIII} Japanese forces did not surrender to the Americans during the Battle of Guadalcanal ... IX} the 101st Airborne Division did not surrender at Bastogne ...

... XI} and the Americans did not surrender to the Viet Cong during the Battle of Khe Sanh.  Concerning the Battle of Khe Sanh, General Westmoreland stated:

Our entire philosophy [is] to allow the enemy to surround us closely, to mass about us, to reveal his troop and logistic routes, to establish his dumps and assembly areas, and to prepare his siege works as energetically as he desires.  The result [will be] an enormous quantity of targets ... ideal for heavy bombers.

http://books.google.com/books?id=G35yog6wKv0C&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=westmoreland+khe+sanh+b-52+to+reveal+his+troop+and+logistic+routes&source=bl&ots=fUw5iF5TwK&sig=UEKQWwprrxBR2W5q0rre6dzkgF4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H2veUaLUCsHkygH2o4Eg&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=westmoreland%20khe%20sanh%20b-52%20to%20reveal%20his%20troop%20and%20logistic%20routes&f=false

12a] General Sun Tzu was the author of the time-tested treatise the Art of War.  In it he stated, "the psychology of soldiers is to resist when surrounded."  He then went on to state, "Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive.  Plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.  When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory."

Concerning an enemy, he stated,"Do not press a desperate enemy."   He also stated, "A surrounded army must be given a way out."

This means that being surrounded is not automatic defeat, while surrounding an enemy can backfire.  Actually, when your enemy surrounds you, it's thinning out its lines.  Pick an arc in that thinned-out circle and fire away, while closing your gaps.  If you can break a circle, you just broke the enemy.  

You then proceed with a flanking maneuver if you are not faster than the enemy.  You retreat to safety, if you are faster and outnumbered ...  if and only if you aren't being visited with tactical air strikes against you.

12b] Disconnecting the enemy from its supply lines is partially similar to placing him under siege.  Whenever he is separated from his supply lines, the enemy is confronted with the choice of surrendering or scattering.  In both instances, you win, if you don't surround your enemy.  

When you surround your enemy, expect him to become relentless and uncontrollable in one arc of the circle you have around your enemy.

Whenever you can do so, manipulate your enemy into thinning out his line, always and in every way.  Now, if you are playing Feigning Retreat and are drawing the enemy into a trap, you are initially doing the opposite of thinning out enemy lines.   However, if you give your enemy the incentive to gain ground fast, he will be thinning out his line in the overly zealous pursuit of you.

12c] In the same mind set, when you break through an enemy's line, expect tactical air fire to rain down upon you.  This means that the only viable alternative for you is to outflank the enemy and get so close to him that you are literally in enemy fox holes, inviting a lot of friendly fire casualties.  

In order to get out of a tactical air strike (after breaking out of an encirclement), you will literally have to take some of your enemy soldiers prisoner, so as to provoke a temporary truce.  However, if you have already gained air superiority, you will have no problem breaking out.  

Thus, the reason why the Battle of the Bulge was an American success was because the allies already had air superiority over the Germans.

13a] When it comes to breaking an enemy's circle, a relatively comparable situation occurred during the American Civil War.  Union batteries would first target a confederate artillery unit or a single canon and fire away.  

When the single canon or artillery unit would get put out of action, the Union battery would go to its next target.  It was the systematic decimation of artillery units.

13b] Alexander the Great did something similar in battle.  He took a chariot unit and traveled along the face of an enemy phalanx.  As soon as he saw an opening, he attacked and broke the opened wedge even wider.  

You can break a circle in a similar fashion, when you are surrounded.  If you get defeated while surrounded, it was only because you faced superior numbers that were layered.  It wasn't because of being surrounded, per se.  Being surrounded, in itself, is not guaranteed defeat.  Bastogne confirmed this.  However, during a breakout, look up at the sky and respond accordingly.

13c] Incidentally, Alexander the Great was the ultimate military genius.

13d] Surrounding the enemy involves placing the enemy under siege, and in today's technological societies, sieges are not advisable.  This is due to the existence of air drops, air support, and air cavalry forces.  Thus, it is even less expected for military forces to surrender when surrounded in the modern era.

13e] If a child runs up to your unit and pleads for you to quickly go to his town, to defuse a bomb in the middle of the street, expect to be ambushed.  This literally happened in Afghanistan.  T

he general rule is that, if the local citizens aren't bearing gifts, they are bearing trouble.  Even at that, don't readily eat food that is offered to you by a native of the land you invaded.  The other rule is that, if the official mayor doesn't approach you with an official request, then expect to be set up for the kill.

13f] However, if the townsfolk, in a collective effort, offer your soldiers something such as bed sheets during winter, then chances are that they are your friends.  This literally happened during the Battle of the Bulge.  American soldiers were clad in white bed sheets, compliments of the nearby villagers.  They served as camouflage in midst of snow-ridden terrain.

14a] Don't be foolish enough to drive through a ravine.  The general rule is that, if you can see Terra Firma above you, something will be hurled down upon you by the enemy.  Taking the high ground is a general rule. Taking the low ground is asinine, unless you are placing the enemy under siege and are trying to get him to thirst to death.  

As was previously stated, in this era of air cavalry, air drops, and air support, performing a seize is very very very limited in its ability to be effective.

14b] As a general rule, the air force is to be regarded as soldiers on high ground.

15a] Always approach battle in wolf pack formations.  If you thin out your lines, you lose.  This happened to Czechoslovakia in WWII.  Think phalanx formation or wolf pack formation.  If you don't have the numbers, then your war will be an attack on the enemy's supply installations behind the lines, in raid after raid.  

Needless to say, if you approach battle in wolf pack form, you will still have to cover your flank, as was the case with Patton and Montgomery in Sicily.  He who gets outflanked loses the battle.  This happened to a thoroughly incompetent military commander named George Washington during the Battle of Brooklyn Heights.

15b] It is of the utmost importance for you to know that a Wolf Pack Formation is NOT a Sardine Formation or a Bowling Pin Formation.  If soldier are too tightly packed, one hand grenade could put them out of action.

15c] If you're en route to the main front and pass a solitary house containing enemy troops, bypass it, lest you lose a lot of ordinance and soldiers in attempting to take it.  Henry Knox learned this the hard way during the American Revolution.

16a] If you are in a foreign nation, fighting an army foreign to the land where you find yourself, the people there are likely to befriend you.  If you're in a foreign nation, fighting the army native to that nation, expect the people there to regard you as the enemy and not as the liberator, even if you're liberating them from a dictator.  This is because their relatives are in the army you are attacking.

For example, the Belgians were friendly to the Americans who were fighting the German army on land where the German military did not belong.  In contrast, the Iraqi people were not friendly to the American GI's who came to fight the Iraqi army who was native to Iraq.

16b] The George Walker Bush administration mistakenly assumed that the invasion in Iraq in 2003 was going to be equivalent to invading France and then Holland in 1944. 

16c] Concerning what was erroneously presumed to have been the end of the Second Iraq War, in 2003:

If soldiers exit their tanks and proceed to walk away, 

the solders only do so, to fight another day.

There is a difference between retreat and surrender.

The lesson is that, if your enemy doesn't physically perform an outward act of surrender in front of you, it didn't surrender.  He will continue to fight you, in the shadows, via sabotage.  The war didn't end until eight years after Bush II claimed that the "mission was accomplished." 

17a] During the Cold War, the Soviet Union's high command didn't think in terms of Shock and Awe.  It's military policy was literally Brute Force.  Such a thing results in a lot of casualties on your side and on the enemy side.  

Therefore, if the United States and the Soviet Union would have gone to war with each other in the 1980's, NATO's high command would have drawn Soviet land forces into an array of killing field scenarios, thereby making the B-52 bomber heavily indemand and heavily in peril.  The Soviet high command would have responded by firing missiles at the U.S. air base in Spain (Diego Garcia.)

17b] No matter how Ronald Reaganish and Rush Limbaughish you are, do not bedeceived:  War between the United States and the Soviet Union would have been guaranteed mutual destruction, resulting in Madd Maxx types of societies.

And remember, both Mitt Romney and Rush Limbaugh were cowardly chicken hawks who hid from combat service during war time.  They  were the opposite of experts.  

 

In addition, even drugs conquered Limbaugh.  None the less, World War IV would have been fought with sticks and stones, after a Soviet/American World War III. 

17c] The NATO forces in Europe were originally designed to survive for six weeks.  Then, in the 1980s, the life expectancy of a NATO unit, in the event of war, was 22 to 32 minutes.

17d] Plus, the mark of a dictatorship is that it's battle plan is to lose its first wave of soldiers.  This is a plan of mutual attrition.  In a dictatorship, even the citizens are expendable. 

18a] More important than hitting the enemy front line is the assignment of destroying or even commandeering enemy supplies.  Charles Martel did this in France.  So too did the 8th Army Air Force do this in the European Theater of Operation.  In fact, before the arrival of D-Day, there were numerous air raids upon Nazi railroad yards.  This was done, so that the Nazis wouldn't be able to quickly send reinforcements to Normandy's coastline.  

The objective in attacking railroad yards was not to disrupt train tracks.  The objective was to destroy the ordnance, vehicles, and even soldiers on those train tracks.   

18b] The bombing of the Hamm marshaling yards, done shortly after the cessation of Operation Market Garden, was done so that the Nazis couldn't readily send reinforcements into Holland.  Bombing truck assembly plants, armament factories, and fuel supply depots is what wins wars.  

Uprooting landing strips is equally as important.  Targeting civilian neighborhoods is a waste of time and ordnance.

18c] It was repeatedly stated that, if Hitler immediately sent all available Panzer units to Normandy Beach on D-Day, the Nazis would have pushed the allied forces back into the English Channel.  This is a complete lie.  

If all of the available Panzer units roared toward Normandy Beach on D-Day, they all would have been decimated by the 8th and 9th Army Air Forces the same way in which the Panzer Lehr Division was decimated at St. Lo, France, on July 25, 1944.  The war would have ended much sooner.

18d] Concerning the St. Lo Air Raid, Lieutenant-General Fritz Bayerlein, recounted the event, as was witnessed from his German position.   Concerning this account, his mention of heavy bombs was a reference to that fact that the numerous small bombs which assailed the troops and tanks that day were dropped out of heavy bombers: 

"The entrenched infantry was either smashed by the heavy bombs whilein their foxholes and dugouts or else they were killed and buried by the blast.

Infantry and artillery positions were blown up.   The bombed area was entirely transformed into a field covered with craters, where no human was left alive.   Tanks and guns were destroyed  and overturned unable to be recovered, because all roads and passages were blocked."   

"The shock effect was nearly as strong the physical effect"  ...  "Some of the men got crazy and were unable to carry out anything.  I was personally in the center of the bombardment and could experience the tremendous effect.   

For me, one who, during this war, was at every theater of operation, and who had been assigned to the places of the main efforts, this was the worst thing I ever saw."

Bayerlein summarized the aftermath in the following way: 

"My front lines looked like the face of the moon, and at least 70% of my troops were out of action - dead, wounded, crazed, or numb." 

18e] Now, it's important to note that the shock effect came from the fact that the Nazi panzer unit originally underestimated the 8th and 9th Army Air Forces.  You see, the day before was the original date of the air raid, but it was canceled when most of the bomb groups were in mid-flight.

Such a cancellation was known as a RTB Order; a Return to Base Order.  This meant that very few bombs dropped on the Panzer division on July 24.

As a result, the panzer troops assumed that the 8th & 9th Army Air Forces offered little challenge on that day.  Then, when the two U.S. air  forces came back the following day and converged upon the Nazis in full force, the vast majority of the panzer troops couldn't handle it.  They were unprepared for what was to come.   Therefore, Sun Tzu was completely correct in having stated, 

"Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent.  Though effective, appear to be ineffective."  

On the day when it was decimated, the Panzer Lehr Division thought that the U.S. tactical & strategic air forces would be ineffective.

18f] Famed war correspondent and eventual war casualty, Ernie Pyle, witnessed the July 25th air raid from the American encampment: 

"And then a new sound gradually droned into our ears.   The sound was deep and all encompassing, with no notes in it --- just a gigantic faraway surge of doom-like sound.   It was the heavies." ...

"I've never known a storm or a machine or any resolve of man that had about it the aura of such ghastly relentlessness." ...

" ...  and then the bombs came.  They began ahead of us as a crackle of popcorn and almost instantly swelled into a monstrous fury of noise that seemed surely to destroy all the world ahead of us.  

"From then on,  for an hour and a half that had in it the agonies of the centuries, the bombs came down." ...

"By now everything was an indescribable cauldron of sound.  Individual noises did not exist.  The thundering of motors in the sky and the roar of the bombs ahead filled all the space (all the spatial capacity) for noise on earth.   Our own artillery was crashing all around us, yet we could hardly hear it."

The bottom line is that, if all available Panzer units stormed toward the Normandy Coastline on June 6, 1944, the July 25th St. Lo news report would have been the June 7th and 8th report coming from the Normandy Coastline.

18g] The July 25th air raid was known as Operation Cobra, and the greatest lesson that it taught was the many smaller bombs are far more devastating than a few large bombs of the same total tonnage.  

Some of the Eighth Army Air Force bombers only carried 20 lb. fragmentation bombs @ 240 bombs per bomber, while other ones went to St. Lo with a load of 260 lb fragmentation bombs @ 20 bombs per bombers.  Yet other ones carried 100 lb demolition bombs @ 38 bombs per bomber.  Neither 500 lb bombs, nor 1,000 pounders, nor 2,000 lb bombs were used that day.

19a] Concerning WWII, it was George Patton's doctrine to never never never dig in.  It was Charles DeGaulle's doctrine also.   Think outflank, outflank, outflank, or think deplete the enemy's supply.   If you dig in, you will not deplete the enemy's supply.  The enemy's supply of ammunition will deplete your dug-in troops.

19b] The bottom line is this:  

When you destroy the enemy's war-making machine, the war is over.

20]  The Nazis were the first ones to place jet-propelled fighters into the air.  The first jet fighter in history was the ME262.  Yes, it was much faster than a P-51, but all of the WWII Nazi jet fighters were shot down.  This is because, in order for them to return to base, they had to coast downward.   They were only jet propelled while going up.

21a]  Do not target any civilian area of any kind.  If you strike a civilian target on purpose, you will awaken a lion of vengeance.  The city of Hamburg only burned because of the bombing of  London.  Therefore, always always always accommodate your enemy with a civilized incentive for ceasing hostilities.  You do this by giving him a civilian sanctuary to the neighborhoods where he can return.

21b] In addition, a bombed-out civilian area can become a fortress of rubble for the enemy, enabling for a roster of future Sniper Hall-of-Fame inductees.  For example, the Bombing of civilian sectors in Leningrad and Monte Casino resulted in a lot of casualties after the bombings thereof.

21c]  In order to prevent a shooting war, keep talking at the negotiating table, especially if you and your enemy do little more than yell at each other.  Keep in mind the observation made centuries ago by Sun Tzu:  In modern terms, those who saber rattle are poised to cower, while those who speak humbly are poised to attack.

21d] The first sign of eminent war is silence.  After all,  George Bush II refused to talk to the Saddam Hussein who actually didn't have the weaponry that the Bush administration claimed him to possess.   

Should the negotiators at the conference table act like a dysfunctional family during the holidays, let them keep talking and you will prevent the occurrence of something known as a daily body count.

22a] Treat every enemy prisoner of war as either a captured king or a cast member in a Shakespearean tragedy.  A man or a woman whom you treat kindly wil not be inclined to hang you from a noose after the war.  

Do NOT water board your enemy.  Let your enemy know that there are nice guys on the other side who will treat him or her humanely should he/she think of surrendering.  Your goal is to get the enemy to stop firing at you.  Such an enemy, after the war,might even become your ally.

22b]  Chapter II of  the Art of War prescribes that captured prisoners be treated well and respectfully.  This is contrary to the failed and fatally expensive water boarding Bush II war years which cost trillions of dollars in term of lives, the physical health of many vets, and the psychological health of military personnel, as well as the cost to the Iraqi's in their land being arrayed with a depleted uranium. 

22c]  One more thing:   Make it appear that you are impressed that your captured enemy was man enough to face you, if he were captured in battle.  If your enemy looked for you, act as if he is a wearied pilgrim looking for sanity in the world.  

You don't want your captured enemy to be intimidated or humiliated by you.  You want him to feel sorry for you, as if you have too many burdens in life.  You want the Stockholm Syndrome to take effect.  

If your captured enemies are made to fear you, it will be equivalent to surrounding your enemy, and you never ever should do that in warfare.  At the end of every war is the peace treaty.  Begin the motion to peace during the war.

22d]  In order to make escape difficult for your prisoners of war, you need to make the perimeter of your P.O.W. camp a deep trench of sand.  Prisoners can digtunnels from earth effectively.  However, making a tunnel in a sand pit takes engineering skills and added materials.  In addition, make life in the prison camp so nice that the prisoners won't want to leave it.

 23] Require all of your officers to eat exactly what the troops in the theaters of battle are eating.  In this way, high command, local command, and field command will know how much physical strength and alertness the soldiers have remiaing in them.

Do NOT be a miser when it comes to your soldiers' cuisine.  Rather, think in terms of perishable food vs. non-perishable items.

Let it be repeated:  No gourmet treats for your officers during military operations, and NEVER while in a theater of war, unless your frontline troops, sailors, and airmen get the exact same thing.

24] The most audacious military maneuver in history was when Napoleon ordered his cavalry to enter the Austrian trenches.  In second place would be Alexander the Great's attack on Tyre.  In third place would be the scaling of the Cliffs of Omaha Beach.  That act placed D-Day in the "You gotta be nuts" Department.

All that the American forces had to do was change course and land on Sword Beach.  The British liberated it quickly.  The Americans could have liberated Omaha Beach from behind.

25] One of  the reasons why Napoleon lost at Waterloo was because it rained the night before the battle.  His artillery used something known as canister shot.  It didn't explode until it hit the ground.  This meant that the mud was buffering the explosions of anti-personnel ball bearings and pellets.  It were as if Napoleon had no artillery on that day.  

Yes, rainfall ended Napoleon's reign.  Plus, Napoleon attacked later than usual.  He wanted to attack the British as soon as possible, because the Prussians were on their way.  

Napoleon's army was on the verge of breaking the line of the army of Arthur Wellesley, the first duke of Wellington.  Wellesley then ordered his remaining troops to lie down, slightly beyond the ridge of the hill where the fight was soon to be decisive.  This place was known as the Hougoumont farm.  

The French were then ambushed when they went over the crest of the hill there.  The area had pine trees that were tapped regularly for their gum and turpentine.  Napoleon sent 14,000 troops to the Hougoumont farm, while Wellesley kept 12,000 British troops in the area, to defend it.

        

In addition, the French cavalry performed a flanking maneuver that was misunderstood by the infantry.  The infantry thought that the cavalry was retreating.  The French infantry then fled in retreat.  

Napoleon's greatest error was leaving the battlefield and not calling the play by play orders.  His greatest misfortune was that the Prussians arrived at 4:30 in the afternoon, requiring the French to fight one battle on two fronts.  Their arrival was inevitable.

26] Napoleon's navy lost the Battle of Alexandria (the Battle of the Nile), because the British were smart enough to park close to the coast, thereby making one side of each ship unable to be attacked by the French navy.

27a] George Washington was an incompetent military commander, dating back to the French & "Indian" War.  One of the few reasons why the Americans outlasted the British was because the Comte de Rochambeau was in America, convincing Washington to not be so foolish as to fight the British in New York. 

Yorktown was to be the place of destiny, but not until the French fleet came north during the Caribbean hurricane season.

27b] Even though Daniel Morgan's victory at Cowpens helped greatly, if it weren't for the French navy, the Comte de Rochambeau, and the money provided by King Louis XVI, there would have been no United States of America.  America owes everything to the French, in that department of history.

27c] During the Battle of Yorktown, American troops repeatedly shouted "Rush on Boys"  as their battle cry.  It was a play on words, concerning Rochambeau.

27d] The Comte de Rochambeau was Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur.  He was the youngest son of his family.  King David was the youngest son of his family, too, as was the Joseph of Egyptian fame.  

Simon V of Montfort, victor of the Battle of Lewes & originator of the parliamentary concept, was also the youngest son, as was Andrew Jackson, victor of the Battle of New Orleans and heralded capturer of Pensacola.  

General Robert E. Lee was the youngest son of major-general Henry Lee.  Even Alfred the Great, along with Peter the Great, were youngest sons.  Going one step further, General Norman Schwarzkopf was the youngest of three children.

27e] In light of this pattern, there is an instinct possessed by the youngest male of a family that the other males don't possess.  This makes the youngest the ultimate military strategist.  The youngest male knows what it is to be the little one.  He has the survival instinct, as well as an instantaneous defensive mechanism.  

In fact, there is also the matter of having observed the family who came before him and learning from its influence.  The eldest in a family might be able to give effective financial advice, but it's the youngest male who will prevail in the most brutal of wars ... according to the pattern found in history.

However, this does not apply to the youngest brothers of men who already were in military power.  The prime example would be Napoleon Bonaparte's youngest brother, Jérôme, who misinterpreted his orders at Waterloo and the lacked the needed reinforcements to defend Westphalia, in another military conflict.  None the less, he had a prestigious political career.

Concerning Napoleon Bonaparte, he was the fourth of eleven children, and he entered military schooling at the age of ten.  Dwight Eisenhower was a middle child.  Polk, the American/Mexican War president, was the eldest.  Harry Truman was the eldest also, and he was a WWI artillery officer during the end of the war.  

In addition, Paul Gilbert, the Marquis of La Fayette, was an only child who become a wealthy orphan relatively early in life.  So, the youngest child tendency is only a very broad generality which did have in its ranks notable military figures.

As a point of interest, a grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte's youngest brother was Secretary of the United States Navy and United States Attorney General.  In 1908, he founded the prototype of the FBI.  Charles Joseph Bonaparte was his name.

28a] The greatest outnumbered military victory in history was logically the Battle of Watling Street, in 61 C.E., when governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus' army of 8,000 to 12,000 Romans completely decimated Queen Boudicca's army of 60,000 to 80,000 or more in southern England.  

Roman pila (javelins) were designed to bend as soon as they hit enemy shields, thereby taking away from the enemy its ability to toss  the javelins back at the Romans.  The Romans hurled two volleys at Boudicca's advancing army.  The Romans kept repelling each attack and then counterattacked.  It turned out to be a massacre upon the attacking British.

28b] The lesson learned is that, if your initial military game plan fails, stop attempting it.  After the Watling Street defeat, no one in Britain took on the Roman legions until the early 400s.  The ancient Rome Empire did not fall until September 4, 476 C.E.

29] The fatal error of the Confederate forces at Gettysburg was attacking Little Big Top and then sending in Pickett's soldiers from the right, in an advertised attack.

The Southern forces simply needed to start marching eastward, toward Washington DC, in order to bring the Union forces out of their protective embankments.

 30] Never disband a conquered army.  This was Bush's fatal error in Iraq.  Make it as if your enemy combatants just became your new allies.  In this way, you will keep track of men who would otherwise become terrorists, firing at you from the shadows.  

Keep in mind that you went to war against a government whose officials held its military personnel on puppet strings.  When the enemy government or targeted dictator is no longer in power, you need let surviving military units know that they have been released from the puppet strings.  Conquered troops still need to be called to roll call.

 31] Any society who understands the following is in possession of great wisdom:  War is a punishment from God for mankind's sins. 

Sincerely,

Patrick Pontillo,  youngest son of an authentic liberator of France and all-around cool guy.

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