Chris Walter

Retired Part Time Soldier. Started in 1989. Ended in 2021.
Lucky enough to have served with great people. Views are just mine.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Belgium is nothing but an obsolete ploy by 19th century Britain to prevent France from controlling North Sea ports.

Just say no.

[Byrd Martin @Byrdsmanse]

Congratulations, World, you bested our 6th-tier athletes.

[Byrd Martin @Byrdsmanse]

If you cook your hamburgers past medium-rare you are dead to me.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

If you are looking for a more traditional lifestyle involving outhouses, grinding poverty, and a GDP smaller than that of individual US states, Russia is the place for you

[ben moores @benmoores2]

Its a disgrace that the US Administration openly allows known serving officers to racially abuse Shashank. The MoD response is that the British Army continues to try to buy weapons from the same Administration.

[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

Best Soldier in the Army today. He is what right looks like. Kremlin and terrorist organizations will be relieved to know that he will soon be gone.

[Chris Walter @PartTime11A]

@Byrdsmanse On point.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Your regular reminder that Jimmy (himself wounded at Mt Longdon) has compiled the single best book ever written to understand what an NCO’s role is in battle. I used to recommend it to every one of my officer cadets. 🟩

[Chris Walter @PartTime11A]

@jtwill_76 I was with him that day. Just a great person. Really wish it had been different. I hope so much his family is at peace.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

I don’t care what your politics are, what color your skin is, or who you voted for — every family has one thing in common: this pan.

[Franz-Stefan Gady @HoansSolo]

War is a dialectical competition characterized by cycles of adaptions & counter-adaptions at all levels of warfare (technical, tactical etc.), shaped, among other things, by the operational environment (weather, terrain, etc.) that affects the different phases of a conflict. A common analytical mistake is to draw linear conclusions about the future trajectory & character of fighting from one particular phase, especially given that information in an ongoing war is always fragmentary & limited. Media narratives especially have a tendency to swing from gloom to euphoria, with little room for nuance in between.

[Chris Coglianese @cmcoglianese]

One of the most incorrectly/"miscorrectly"/improperly quoted military axioms has to do with Prince Eugene's mule regarding the pitfalls of not thinking and reflecting on one's service in combat. The actual quotation comes from Frederick the Great on the Art of War (New York: Free Press, 1966), p. 47; edited and translated by Dr. Jay Luuvas.

And it goes a little something like this...

“A mule who has carried a pack for ten campaigns under Prince Eugene will be no better tactician for it, and it must be confessed, to the disgrace of humanity, that many men grow old in an otherwise respectable profession without making any greater progress than this mule.

To follow the routine of the service, to become occupied with the care of its fodder and lodging, to march when the army marches, camp when it camps, fight when it fights--for the great majority of officers this is what is meant by having served, campaigned, grown gray in the harness. For this reason, one sees so many soldiers occupied with trifling matters and rusted by gross ignorance. Instead of soaring audaciously among the clouds, such men know only how to crawl methodically in the mire. They are never perplexed and will never know the causes of their triumphs or defeats.”

[Chris Walter @PartTime11A]

@Byrdsmanse So sorry about this. Hope you and family are as OK as you can be right now.

[Chris Walter @PartTime11A]

Preach

[Ronnie Adkins @RonnieAdkins]

Cornbread is a vegetable. I will not be taking questions at this time.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,

[Mitchell G. Klingenberg @MGKlingenberg]

“Warfighting is not a slogan.”

This video from USNA Superintendent and USMC LTG Michael Borgschulte to the Brigade is most excellent. And its message rings true for all Joint PME — at all echelons.

[Chris Walter @PartTime11A]

@BradDuplessis The emphasis on combining "arms" across domains is clear, as is an emphasis on LRPF. But do we really think just doing those well is a war winning doctrine? Seems like we have failed to address a lot...

[Chris Walter @PartTime11A]

@BradDuplessis As an interested (retired) outsider, I have been trying to understand just what MDO is really arguing is the correct warfighting approach. It has been tough (maybe just for me) to figure it out.

[Chris Walter @PartTime11A]

Preach

[Mike Donatelli @mikeddonatelli]

Idk if y’all knew this

It doesn’t matter how fit you are…

If you don’t train combat sports you are in fact… “cooked”

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

If your values change every time the president changes his values then quite frankly you have none.
You're just a toady at that point.