{"id":99489,"date":"2025-12-07T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99489"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:28:26","slug":"the-great-military-leaders-of-the-past-have-been-quirky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/12\/07\/the-great-military-leaders-of-the-past-have-been-quirky\/","title":{"rendered":"The great military leaders of the past have been … quirky"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the social media site formerly known as Twitter<\/em>, @InfantryDort<\/a> considers the clear evidence that most of the greatest generals of history were, at the very least, eccentric:<\/p>\n

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Most real post I’ve seen all month.<\/p>\n

Yes, the process weeds them out.<\/p>\n

Until all that remains is some corporatized astroturfed version of … whatever.<\/p>\n

Military commanders in the modern era MUST lack personal audacity to some degree. Almost without exception.<\/p>\n

Because audacity is “dangerous”. It can be unpredictable. And this is a bad thing in a world obsessed with safety and predictability.<\/p>\n

But a military without it, is just one on anti-depressants. You never feel the highest highs or the lowest lows.<\/p>\n

You just … exist, in inspirational purgatory.<\/p>\n

So you will never see a Napoleon, Patton, Allen, or Sherman ever again.<\/p>\n

Their modern equivalents mostly got out as captains because the experience they were promised from history, is now covered in bubble wrap. Wearing a bib and a football helmet.<\/p>\n

The modern military is devoid of both victory and defeat. A victory you aren’t allowed to win. A defeat you can explain away. Much of it is due to the American people themselves, and their disdain for violence. At least violence against what sane people classify as enemies.<\/p>\n

We have a chance to take it back. A chance to return to glorious and sometimes unhinged leadership. But the rot is thick. And the Empire Strikes Back daily.<\/p>\n

My infinite gratitude, and the gratitude of a fawning nation, will rest with those who display the force of will to make it happen.<\/p>\n

And crush the corporatization of military leadership once and for all.<\/p>\n

The world awaits. And one wonders if our country has the appetite for it all, short of an existential crisis in a war of national survival.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update, 8 December<\/strong>: Welcome, Instapundit<\/em> readers! Please do have a look around at some of my other posts you may find of interest. I send out a daily summary of posts here through my Substack<\/em> \u2013 https:\/\/substack.com\/@nicholasrusson<\/a> that you can subscribe to if you’d like to be informed of new posts in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, @InfantryDort considers the clear evidence that most of the greatest generals of history were, at the very least, eccentric: Most real post I’ve seen all month. Yes, the process weeds them out. Until all that remains is some corporatized astroturfed version of … whatever. Military commanders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,5,13],"tags":[755,572,261,139],"class_list":["post-99489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-history","category-military","category-usa","tag-incentives","tag-leadership","tag-management","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pSF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99527,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99489\/revisions\/99527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}