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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8906281.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ALIENATIVE MILITARY LEADER ENEMY WAR VIOLENCE KILL 890628 Conventional military leadership lacks integrity by the very nature of conventional military responsibility. It is the responsibility of conventional military leaders to prepare armed forces to kill men, women and children who are regarded as the enemy. To be successful in conventional military activities the rule is "When in doubt kill." Having too much information about individual men, women and children who are regarded as the enemy will inhibit conventional military activities. Military leaders must prevent gathering too much information. Thus, military intelligence must be strictly limited. Members of armed forces must not think too much. If they do, they may not kill enough. To prepare armed men to kill enough, it is necessary for military leaders to train their men to regard members of the identified opposition as unquestionably enemy and not worthy of survival. Armed men must not ask too many questions. If they do think too much they will not kill without thinking about the long term consequences of enough killing. Too much thinking will get in the way of conventional military success. It is the conventional responsibility of military leaders to lead their men to regard the members of the identified opposition as less than human, as unquestionably expendable. Military leadership entails mandatory depersonalization of the enemy in preparation for killing the enemy. Thus military leaders teach each other to oppose becoming familiar with men, women and children of the enemy. Personal familiarity with the enemy gets in the way of conventional military success. It is the conventional responsibility of military leaders to promote alienation to insure that their men will be willing to kill men, women and children of the identified enemy without thinking too much about them as fellow human beings. Alienation is essential to military success. Personal information, thinking, sympathy, and mutual understanding stand in the way of conventional military success. The more powerful the military weapons have become the more important to military success has become the process of military indoctrination. The more powerful military weapons have become the less discriminating has become the process of waging war. In modern technological war it is impossible to be discriminating in killing; one must be willing and ready to kill all people in major metropolitan areas without thinking about the order which has been given. Improvements in military technology have lead to the impossibility of conventional military success. Further improvements in techniques will not lead to the possibility of conventional military success, for improvements in the power to alienate and disintegrate the enemy can no longer lead to conventional military success. In the past it was possible to separate in thought the long term consequences from the short term consequences of military ventures. When global destruction can take place in ten minutes it is no longer possible for thoughtful people to separate in thought the long term consequences from the short term consequences of planned military ventures. It is no longer possible to participate in planning conventional military ventures without participating in addictive games of mutual self deception. Only addicts can participate in conventional military planning for nuclear war. It is not possible to maintain both personal and communal integrity while planning to totally destroy all life on the planet. It is not possible to maintain personal and communal health and well being while indoctrinating armed forces and civilians into a thoughtless pattern of preparation for global destruction. Addiction to the conventional military way of thinking and feeling is a threat to the survival of all forms of life on Planet Earth. We must confront the dishonesty of conventional military thinking if we are to survive. Continuing to live conventionally according to traditional military patterns of though is impossible; just as it is impossible for an addict to continue living while believing that salvation is just another fix away. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================