Wartime Tactics of Lifelong Lessons and Counting Blessings.

Audit Time for all.

We are all being audited.

In real time.

Round and round and round she goes . Where is stops. Nobody knows. Good idea to know your trench mates while in the trenches in and of our current state of affairs. Why? Just around the corner is Armed Services Day. Worldwide ceremonious demonstrations of respect and honor will become due. Unlike the real time protests and demonstrations of me too and you too, us too, them too.

After that Memorial Day, Flag Day, American Independence Day, Civic Holiday, Patriot Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Remembrance Day…to name just a few.

Good idea to know your trench mates for many reasons. A soldier, young or more experienced, knows his or her role is a function of truthful service taken and acted on after and on behalf of an oath of the country they serve. The country of which they, the person, is an active and participating citizen service -minded participant.

Each nation in the world has their own military, their own soldiers fighting their country’s battles. In addition to the broader picture of functions, a nation’s military may function as a discrete social subculture, with dedicated infrastructure such as housing, schools, utilities, logistics, hospitals, legal services, food production, finance and banking services. (wk)

The profession of soldiering as part of the military is older than recorded history itself. Thank you brave soldiers!!

Beyond warfare, the military may be employed in additional sanctioned and non-sanctioned functions within a state, including internal security threats, crowd control, promotion of political agendas, emergency services, reconstruction, protection of corporate economic interests, social ceremonies and national how our guards.(wk)

As mentioned. It is wise to know your trench mates.

How victory is achieved is not always “clear cut”, obvious. When to know if and when victory has been achieved has been studied to include victories defined in three ways:

Strategic

Operational

Tactical.

Whether the lessons learned inform or destroy. Influence management decisions, of forces in war, campaigns, nationally or allied-ly all contribute whether or not a mission may have been successful. Sometimes, it is not always easy to decipher. Strategically positioned, the military may be more concerned with the supply of war and planning, field forces and combat between them.

The price of gas too.

Operational includes mobility. A level of command that includes and coordinates the minute details of tactics with the over arching goals of strategy.

Sounds like an impossible job.

Formations are of the operational level if they are able to conduct operations on their own, and are of sufficient size to be directly handled or have a significant impact at the strategic level. Sometimes can take from one week to one month.(wk)

Seems easy enough.

But it is not.

Always easy enough.

Smooth sailing.

Wartimes tactics and lesson vary. So do methods for engaging and defeating the so called enemy.

One such tactic: Get in their head. Refuse to leave.

Another such tactic: Get on their turf: Refuse to leave.

Additional tactics, bob and weave, weave and bob, call and drop, stop, drop and roll.

Drop the proverbial verbal grenade and skip off into the sunset. In addition. Small unit ambushes, encirclements, bombardments, frontal-assaults, air assaults, hit-and-run tactics. It is complicated and ever evolving. Much depends on the nature of the society itself. (wk)

Attitude has much to do with the fight, the combat. The way a soldier fights. The expectations. The assumptions. The audit of behavior is non stop, sometimes endless and hopefully productive.

When the victory is near. So help me God. The lessons learned will be of value-driven wisdom and knowledge that the fight was worth the battle it caused.

Resolving conflict is not for the weak-minded-giver-uppers. That is why it is wise to know your trench mates. Cannot say it enough. Give as much as you receive—with only harmony in mind. Pay close attention. We are all not given infinite ability to focus and pay attention. Reserving energy is a valid concern.

During combat, during battle, in the fight. Otherwise, round and round and round she goes and where it stops, nobody knows. Wouldn’t ya like to know when victory has been achieved?

In the meantime. Between battles. Count your blessing instead of counting the mistakes. Realize it is a good and capable auditor who does the job with specificity and precision. Awareness that this is to be a function of the job. Less room for tangentialness. Causes confusion. Too much confusion.

Other wartime tactic: Try not to fake it. Sincerity. That is.

Acknowledge that one person’s tactic may be another person’s prayer to God. And on these soils. That is a founding principle of existence, or existing here. Not a bargaining chip. Not a separation of thought, intent or motive.

It is what it is.

One of the reasons the fight may become a battle. Time heals all wounds. Time can also prolong wounds too. And morph them into a salamander of gerry mander. To please to masses. Some folks prefer pictures to words. Charts to pictures. Graphs of points and lines. Data driven information to drive the narrative. To where they want it to go.

For this purpose. For that purpose. God. The ultimate assignment editor is one who delegates the responsibility. Not the one who shirks it. Responsibility. Personal responsibility. Is an oath taken by a soldier, a steward-in-training. To hop aboard the ship. The stewardship.

Stewardship is a value. Valuable. An ethical value that embodies the responsible planning and management of resources. Including personal energy, environment and nature, economics,health, property,information, theology, cultural resources, etc.(wk)

In its simplest form, as it has evolved, stewardship is now recognized as the acceptance or assignment of responsibility to shepherd and safeguard the valuables of others.

Their person. Their personhood, including mind, sanity and good attitudinal energies placed into the right places. So the reserves are ready, willing and able to be utilized to and in service to others.

A small price to pay. To serve and in service of others.

A great and greater price to pay and lose in the loss of losing the battle of wills.