I continue to be baffled & bewildered as to how so many folks can be usurped by the most obvious idiocy. When the Soviet empire collapsed there were thousands of 'couples' planted inside the USA posing as regular families, producing children, serving on school boards, etc. Being model citizens while always nudging things leftwards in an attempt to weaken the American character, as per their Soviet orders. Supposedly the IC officers charged with identification of these folks got their hands on the complete list after the Soviet collapse. They were ready to expose how many of those folks offspring were now serving in the government and still marching to Soviet orders, to achieve Soviet goals. They were then ordered, supposedly, to shut up. Why? Why were these offspring of Soviet agents allowed to continue their pursuit of American destruction? Will the real story ever be told?
Looking at the website warontherocks.com, and reading DataRepublican's well researched article, WOTR and the senior war college structure is due for a review and overhaul as a matter of priority. If one doubts that it has departed from the founding purpose, go to the website and see this WOTR statement of policy for yourself, "Please note, as a matter of house style, War on the Rocks will not use a different name for the U.S. Department of Defense until and unless the name is changed by statute by the U.S. Congress."
It's been quite entertaining just how much the institutional left spirals when you simply rename things. Palmer Luckey was a big proponent of changing DoD back to "Department of War" on the basis that things should be named what they actually do. His belief is that it subtly encourages competence in what they do. At this point it's hard to argue with the results, even though the visible changes are due to Secretary Hegseth rather than the name.
Well written disentanglement of a pretty nasty web of deception. I came here because the background noise on X was like some kind of microwave emitting weapon battering my brain. I appreciate the quiet clarity of this post and thought it was worth a subscription.
These people are self important idiots. Doxxing has become a thunder dome sport - you know this was celebrated far and wide in the crazy left circles. Sickening.
The "Iron Triangle" of the DoD senior establishment (Flag officer and Senior Executive Service government civilians and GS-types), the "Prime" military industrial complex corporations, and the Congress (house and senate) are VERY heavily invested in maintaining the status quo because it benefits THEM. This "triangle" consists of soon to be retired flag officers using their rank and influence to keep the "right" contract awards going in exchange for a "do little for high pay board position" as they use the DoD "revolving door". The contractors provide the jobs in exchange for winning contract bids. The congress participates by obtaining campaign contributions from the contractors and bases and jobs in their districts from DoD senior personnel in exchange for support of the "right" weapon systems and forever wars. This is a well-established and out in the open self-licking ice cream cone that exists to serve "the Triangle" , NOT the nation (except by accident). ANY threat to it must be brutally suppressed, hence the doxxing of Cynical. I watched this for nearly five decades. HOWVER, I have NEVER seen a more thorough and detailed take-down of the who, what, when, where, how and WHY this happens. BZ, good on you, very, very well done. Looking forward, as you well know, get your folks in their fox holes, because the folks you have very publicly exposed will return fire very quickly.
Your great article made me stop dead at the following sentence:
“ Evans had spent 2010–2011 in Helmand Province as a civilian Human Terrain System social scientist embedded with British Task Force Helmand”
British. That's the problem. The WOTR is just another part of British action to continue to shape the narrative of US military policy. Just continuing the last 250 years of keeping the US close enough to have them be the muscle for the British control of the globalist financial system.
Trump and Bessent know this very well. Powell (even with his flaws) helped wean the US off the British financial control (LIBOR) and for the first time the US is actually determining its own interest rates (SOFR). This sad note of the WOTR and Ryan (MI6?) is just another eg. of attempted control of the US military narrative that when exposed results in their lashing out with doxxing and in other cases censorship and triggering of RINO (globalists) political BS.
As a Canadian I can see (we are still a British Crown colony) the British ghost financial empire has its hands all over this one. Just like all the drug running (re Trump Venezuela) proceeds running through British controlled offshore banks in the Carribbean. This is an old structure that paid $$$ to the City of London and the banking industry. Its the game that Trump is dismantling. It's beautiful to watch.
Just waiting for Trump to extract the British rot (Carney) from Canada. A lot of us have our popcorn (and our exit plans) ready. Cuba then Canada? Long live the Donroe Doctrine.
What are the ultimate aims of WOTR and CNAS? To make money? Or are they motivated by a moral sense that they can and should consolidate power for the USA through the war? Or both?
The emphasis on "disinformation", "democracy", and "diversity" post-2017 gives the game away: whatever their aim was intended to be, they've been captured by the Blob and are just another propaganda outlet.
The emphasis on diversity has been going on since the 1960’s, information management since the 1920’s, “democracy” as code for oligarchy since FDR died. I just wonder if this power-play that Data-Republican writes about is mainly motivated by the military-industrial complex or if it’s mainly ideological, or both.
All true, but those things went into overdrive after the 1-2 punch to the globalists of Brexit and Trump winning in 2016. That end of things has been well documented by Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber on X).
The basic parameters are that after the rise of the Western middle class, many rich people had a collective psychotic break because for the first time in history, the benefits of being rich were marginal. The middle class had electricity, gas, running water, reliable cars, television, and labor-saving devices like washing machines and vacuum cleaners. The rich had *more* of those things, but it was very quickly diminishing returns.
The folks having this break yearned for the 1300s when all of us peasants knew our place, and saw in Marxism a mechanism to get the peasants to agitate for their own eventual serfdom. But pure Marxism was based around class envy and that dog wouldn't hunt so they replaced it with a combination of feminism, racial grievances, fake environmentalism, and eventually fringe sexuality.
In the 1970s more centralization of this effort was necessary so Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to coordinate. That coordination is a large part of why every Western leftist movement does the same things at the same times.
Since people have continued to catch on to all of this coordinated action, Western governments have started their doomsday scenario: mass importation of mostly Islamic immigrants. The plan appears to be that the immigrants will kill off the native middle class and then the elites will somehow bring the Islamists to heel. Then everyone will live happily ever after in feudalism. We all see the obvious problem with that plan: there is no way the Western elites will be able to control Islam. The US Democrat Party and the UK Labour Party are already losing control of their own parties to the immigrants, never mind control of the country.
In either 2010 or 2011, I cannot recall which but probably 2011, I saw a third-rate back-bencher at Netroots Nation named Darcy Burner lay out a "game plan" for making the Pentagon and the general staffs more liberal, by which she meant left. I recall two key areas she discussed, one being the academies and another being the JAGC. It happens that I am working on a story about the latter. I just checked up on what she's doing. Turns out she has a book about political organizing coming out soon, so I guess I'll have something to read. https://darcyburner.com/
Back then, progressives terrorized themselves with "doxxing" games. The right participated in these shenanigans and it made online politics intensely oppositional. But it's 2026, and this is a tactic from 2009 that has lost much of its power. Despite what Cynical is going through, and believe me I empathize, from a strategic perspective it feels very dated. Also desperate. Aside from harassing the man, what is it supposed to achieve? What is going to emerge if I do the background research on this person with such a sterling reputation? Nothing that will discredit him, I am sure.
All bark, no bite, tired-out strategy. From these folk. Shocking.
This was another terrific piece of work, thank you.
This is an excellent, detailed post. Thank you! The size of the systems and electronic moving of money create unforeseen "opportunities" inside and outside.
"Army Intelligence," confused populace, and the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing...this isn't easy to watch, but it is tied to other videos and I understand Zach the Accountant's exasperation.
I continue to be baffled & bewildered as to how so many folks can be usurped by the most obvious idiocy. When the Soviet empire collapsed there were thousands of 'couples' planted inside the USA posing as regular families, producing children, serving on school boards, etc. Being model citizens while always nudging things leftwards in an attempt to weaken the American character, as per their Soviet orders. Supposedly the IC officers charged with identification of these folks got their hands on the complete list after the Soviet collapse. They were ready to expose how many of those folks offspring were now serving in the government and still marching to Soviet orders, to achieve Soviet goals. They were then ordered, supposedly, to shut up. Why? Why were these offspring of Soviet agents allowed to continue their pursuit of American destruction? Will the real story ever be told?
Looking at the website warontherocks.com, and reading DataRepublican's well researched article, WOTR and the senior war college structure is due for a review and overhaul as a matter of priority. If one doubts that it has departed from the founding purpose, go to the website and see this WOTR statement of policy for yourself, "Please note, as a matter of house style, War on the Rocks will not use a different name for the U.S. Department of Defense until and unless the name is changed by statute by the U.S. Congress."
It's been quite entertaining just how much the institutional left spirals when you simply rename things. Palmer Luckey was a big proponent of changing DoD back to "Department of War" on the basis that things should be named what they actually do. His belief is that it subtly encourages competence in what they do. At this point it's hard to argue with the results, even though the visible changes are due to Secretary Hegseth rather than the name.
Well written disentanglement of a pretty nasty web of deception. I came here because the background noise on X was like some kind of microwave emitting weapon battering my brain. I appreciate the quiet clarity of this post and thought it was worth a subscription.
Thank you!
These people are self important idiots. Doxxing has become a thunder dome sport - you know this was celebrated far and wide in the crazy left circles. Sickening.
The "Iron Triangle" of the DoD senior establishment (Flag officer and Senior Executive Service government civilians and GS-types), the "Prime" military industrial complex corporations, and the Congress (house and senate) are VERY heavily invested in maintaining the status quo because it benefits THEM. This "triangle" consists of soon to be retired flag officers using their rank and influence to keep the "right" contract awards going in exchange for a "do little for high pay board position" as they use the DoD "revolving door". The contractors provide the jobs in exchange for winning contract bids. The congress participates by obtaining campaign contributions from the contractors and bases and jobs in their districts from DoD senior personnel in exchange for support of the "right" weapon systems and forever wars. This is a well-established and out in the open self-licking ice cream cone that exists to serve "the Triangle" , NOT the nation (except by accident). ANY threat to it must be brutally suppressed, hence the doxxing of Cynical. I watched this for nearly five decades. HOWVER, I have NEVER seen a more thorough and detailed take-down of the who, what, when, where, how and WHY this happens. BZ, good on you, very, very well done. Looking forward, as you well know, get your folks in their fox holes, because the folks you have very publicly exposed will return fire very quickly.
Great post, DR!
Your great article made me stop dead at the following sentence:
“ Evans had spent 2010–2011 in Helmand Province as a civilian Human Terrain System social scientist embedded with British Task Force Helmand”
British. That's the problem. The WOTR is just another part of British action to continue to shape the narrative of US military policy. Just continuing the last 250 years of keeping the US close enough to have them be the muscle for the British control of the globalist financial system.
Trump and Bessent know this very well. Powell (even with his flaws) helped wean the US off the British financial control (LIBOR) and for the first time the US is actually determining its own interest rates (SOFR). This sad note of the WOTR and Ryan (MI6?) is just another eg. of attempted control of the US military narrative that when exposed results in their lashing out with doxxing and in other cases censorship and triggering of RINO (globalists) political BS.
As a Canadian I can see (we are still a British Crown colony) the British ghost financial empire has its hands all over this one. Just like all the drug running (re Trump Venezuela) proceeds running through British controlled offshore banks in the Carribbean. This is an old structure that paid $$$ to the City of London and the banking industry. Its the game that Trump is dismantling. It's beautiful to watch.
Just waiting for Trump to extract the British rot (Carney) from Canada. A lot of us have our popcorn (and our exit plans) ready. Cuba then Canada? Long live the Donroe Doctrine.
What are the ultimate aims of WOTR and CNAS? To make money? Or are they motivated by a moral sense that they can and should consolidate power for the USA through the war? Or both?
Self-preservation. All these institution all form a mutually reinforcing loop (which also keeps their salaries alive).
The emphasis on "disinformation", "democracy", and "diversity" post-2017 gives the game away: whatever their aim was intended to be, they've been captured by the Blob and are just another propaganda outlet.
The emphasis on diversity has been going on since the 1960’s, information management since the 1920’s, “democracy” as code for oligarchy since FDR died. I just wonder if this power-play that Data-Republican writes about is mainly motivated by the military-industrial complex or if it’s mainly ideological, or both.
All true, but those things went into overdrive after the 1-2 punch to the globalists of Brexit and Trump winning in 2016. That end of things has been well documented by Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber on X).
The basic parameters are that after the rise of the Western middle class, many rich people had a collective psychotic break because for the first time in history, the benefits of being rich were marginal. The middle class had electricity, gas, running water, reliable cars, television, and labor-saving devices like washing machines and vacuum cleaners. The rich had *more* of those things, but it was very quickly diminishing returns.
The folks having this break yearned for the 1300s when all of us peasants knew our place, and saw in Marxism a mechanism to get the peasants to agitate for their own eventual serfdom. But pure Marxism was based around class envy and that dog wouldn't hunt so they replaced it with a combination of feminism, racial grievances, fake environmentalism, and eventually fringe sexuality.
In the 1970s more centralization of this effort was necessary so Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to coordinate. That coordination is a large part of why every Western leftist movement does the same things at the same times.
Since people have continued to catch on to all of this coordinated action, Western governments have started their doomsday scenario: mass importation of mostly Islamic immigrants. The plan appears to be that the immigrants will kill off the native middle class and then the elites will somehow bring the Islamists to heel. Then everyone will live happily ever after in feudalism. We all see the obvious problem with that plan: there is no way the Western elites will be able to control Islam. The US Democrat Party and the UK Labour Party are already losing control of their own parties to the immigrants, never mind control of the country.
Leftist power
Unbelievable content DR (Thank You)!!
you’ve come a long way in your journey for truth
How did the military get so damn woke?
Thank you DataRepublican. Keep on keeping on. I don't know what we'd do without you.
DR bringing the receipts again! Keep up the good work!
Outstanding work, ma'am
In either 2010 or 2011, I cannot recall which but probably 2011, I saw a third-rate back-bencher at Netroots Nation named Darcy Burner lay out a "game plan" for making the Pentagon and the general staffs more liberal, by which she meant left. I recall two key areas she discussed, one being the academies and another being the JAGC. It happens that I am working on a story about the latter. I just checked up on what she's doing. Turns out she has a book about political organizing coming out soon, so I guess I'll have something to read. https://darcyburner.com/
Back then, progressives terrorized themselves with "doxxing" games. The right participated in these shenanigans and it made online politics intensely oppositional. But it's 2026, and this is a tactic from 2009 that has lost much of its power. Despite what Cynical is going through, and believe me I empathize, from a strategic perspective it feels very dated. Also desperate. Aside from harassing the man, what is it supposed to achieve? What is going to emerge if I do the background research on this person with such a sterling reputation? Nothing that will discredit him, I am sure.
All bark, no bite, tired-out strategy. From these folk. Shocking.
This was another terrific piece of work, thank you.
"The person deciding whether CNAS, AEI, and Hoover got their funding was now also deciding what ran in WOTR"
Says it all
This is an excellent, detailed post. Thank you! The size of the systems and electronic moving of money create unforeseen "opportunities" inside and outside.
"Army Intelligence," confused populace, and the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing...this isn't easy to watch, but it is tied to other videos and I understand Zach the Accountant's exasperation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYxRjdweg8s