17 Quotes by Tom Kratman

During 19th-century wargames, German junior officers routinely received problems that could only be solved by disobeying orders. Orders themselves specified the result to be achieved, but never the method.

One of the constants of mass psychology is that, for example, when the Huns show up, the Goths move on looking for greener pastures without any Huns. In the United States we can see this, in proto form, in California, where the population of the culturally Anglo are leaving in greater numbers than are coming in.

Axiom Nine: In the absence of valid conditions, standards are completely meaningless.

We now find ourselves facing the Christian West’s oldest and most steadfast opponent, Islam.

The US military’s greatest shame is that it today remains a Second Generation force, despite the ready availability of books like Fighting Power that clearly show the superiority of the Third Generation.

Only the very simple can work in war,” as Clausewitz observed. Complex drills simply won’t work, even leaving aside that the time required to condition something goes up with that something’s complexity, even as the probability of conditioning it drops.

The harsh terms imposed on Germany created the economic and political atmosphere that enabled the Nazis to come to power.

We only had one thing going for us: organic brains.