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Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location

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There is a reason Russian forces are wearing face-covers in Ukraine. That anonymity even became integral part of the official propaganda with the country plastered with images with covered faces like this https://ok.ru/group/53906516017252/album/922573735012/931001...

Amusingly, the slogan on the right hand side says: "we don't start wars, we finish them".

There are some exceptions for the first part like current war in Ukraine or WW2.

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There is a reason Russian forces are wearing face-covers in Ukraine. That anonymity even became integral part of the official propaganda with the country plastered with images with covered faces like this https://ok.ru/group/53906516017252/album/922573735012/931001...

Why is that guy breaking trigger discipline on a propaganda poster?

Trigger discipline is a decadent Western concept.

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There is a reason Russian forces are wearing face-covers in Ukraine. That anonymity even became integral part of the official propaganda with the country plastered with images with covered faces like this https://ok.ru/group/53906516017252/album/922573735012/931001...

Why is that guy breaking trigger discipline on a propaganda poster?

He isnt posing for a poster. That image appears cut from something else.

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> making it easier for journalists, courts, and researchers to connect commanders to their subordinates’ actions.

We all know that G.W. Bush and Tony Blair were at the top of their countries' chains of command during the illegal invasion of Iraq and yet, here we are, they're free of any International Penal Court meddling. Which is to say that maybe these guys and ladies here should focus their "desire for war-justice" a little bit closer to home.

Of course, an organization (the Security Force Monitor mentioned in the article) that literally receives money from George Soros through his Open Society Foundations [1] would never go after its own Western leaders, but it's good to at least have that written down on the internet, like in this comment.

[1] https://securityforcemonitor.org/about/

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> making it easier for journalists, courts, and researchers to connect commanders to their subordinates’ actions. We all know that G.W. Bush and Tony Blair were at the top of their countries' chains of command during the illegal invasion of Iraq and yet, here we are, they're free of any International Penal Court meddling. Which is to say that maybe these guys and ladies here should focus their "desire for war-justice…

When we found out that soldiers in Iraq were mistreating prisoners we put them all on trial and gave the guy who said this wasn't right a medal. What the Burmese military does to maintain its sixty year old dictatorship is wanton murder of civilians.

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> making it easier for journalists, courts, and researchers to connect commanders to their subordinates’ actions. We all know that G.W. Bush and Tony Blair were at the top of their countries' chains of command during the illegal invasion of Iraq and yet, here we are, they're free of any International Penal Court meddling. Which is to say that maybe these guys and ladies here should focus their "desire for war-justice…

When we found out that soldiers in Iraq were mistreating prisoners we put them all on trial and gave the guy who said this wasn't right a medal. What the Burmese military does to maintain its sixty year old dictatorship is wanton murder of civilians.

And then we did this.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallag...

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is that guy breaking trigger discipline on a propaganda poster?

Trigger discipline is a decadent Western concept.

All the pictures of Taliban fighters that I saw after they took over in Afghanistan have good trigger discipline.

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> making it easier for journalists, courts, and researchers to connect commanders to their subordinates’ actions. We all know that G.W. Bush and Tony Blair were at the top of their countries' chains of command during the illegal invasion of Iraq and yet, here we are, they're free of any International Penal Court meddling. Which is to say that maybe these guys and ladies here should focus their "desire for war-justice…

When we found out that soldiers in Iraq were mistreating prisoners we put them all on trial and gave the guy who said this wasn't right a medal. What the Burmese military does to maintain its sixty year old dictatorship is wanton murder of civilians.

> When we found out that soldiers in Iraq were mistreating prisoners

We didn't "find out", some media and/or Wikileaks got evidence. And the consequences were not even close to harsh enough - each and every instance of war crimes should have led to a thorough cleanup and massive sentences for everyone involved, especially for everyone who tried to cover it up.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trigger discipline is a decadent Western concept.

All the pictures of Taliban fighters that I saw after they took over in Afghanistan have good trigger discipline.

Because they're trained by CIA.

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There is a reason Russian forces are wearing face-covers in Ukraine. That anonymity even became integral part of the official propaganda with the country plastered with images with covered faces like this https://ok.ru/group/53906516017252/album/922573735012/931001...

Why is that guy breaking trigger discipline on a propaganda poster?

There was a (not really propaganda) photo op shot of a US naval captain of a big ass ship shooting a rifle with a backwards scope earlier this year.

I think the reason tends to be that the people involved in prop and photo ops actually have no clue about the particulars and just want it to look cool. It's equivalent to "why is X in movies always so unrealistic?" for various values of X (e.g. hacking, law & courts, guns, etc)

(By people involved I mean the people taking the pictures, editing, publishing, etc. Though in the US captain one, I guess also the guy in the picture too)

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