minion armies

MINION ARMIES

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The world is separated into three groups. The leaders, the led and the leaders ass kissers. The later don’t want to be the low dog in the pack, but they are pussies and can’t handle the reality of leadership ( such as real, 24/7 paranoia, lack of friends and worrying about being assassinated ), so the alternative is to jockey for extra table scraps. The ass kissers include the media, the priesthood ( the media doesn’t push too hard to highlight the sick and twisted world of Catholic pedophiles since the church has been so good pushing the socialist agenda [ evidently as good as pushing fudge ], so the two are pretty buddy buddy ), sell-outs like Rush who bolster the illusion of voter choice, and even your favorite politician Obammy ( the reason he pauses between words in a sentence, and slightly raises his voice on the next word, is that being a puppet, with such a large arm stuck up your ass, talking is painful ). I have more respect for those at the bottom of the totem pole, those that kowtow and whimper out of fear. Yes, they are acting out of fear, and have little pride, but at least they don’t willfully choose to trade dignity like the ass kissers. Think of it this way. Remember the teachers pet? You never liked that fool, did you? Ass kisser. In the near future, there will be far less resources to bribe the ass kissers. We will revert back to the ruthless leaders and the serfs. There will be little need to employ an army of propagandizing cheerleaders. The choice is death by starvation or compliance.

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As much as I love Kurt Saxon for his frugal prep ideas, he did provide a large disservice by planting the idea of the post-apocalyptic future mirroring the fable of rugged pioneer life. We aren’t going to see a repeat of white pioneers stealing Indians land and growing wealthy off exploiting rich land. We don’t have a continent brimming full with coal and hard woods and iron ore and oil and very little population. Instead, we have a poisoned, infertile, paved over and over populated wasteland. And there will be no industrial east supplying the frontier by train. There is no prairie with millions of buffalo, nor free flowing rivers full of salmon. Whether you herd or farm, you will need a large amount of territory to provide enough food to a small group. You can’t take suburbia and expect it to churn out 100 bushels of corn per acre. It needs to be cleared of concrete and the soil built back up. To do that, you must secure your area from invaders and have enough surplus farmland that you can leave vast tracts unplanted. Your only choice is to depopulate the area you want. Forcibly depopulate, with great prejudice. You can’t preposition too much in the way of food, arms or ammunition, so lacking a huge army to occupy and control, you are going to have to go Viking. Shock and awe. Terrorize the serfs. Otherwise you lose the war.

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Throughout history, the bigger population usually won the war. You need bodies to fight and plant. More bodies gave you the edge over your enemy. Which is why civilizations and empires always end the same way, by overpopulation and resource depletion. You can’t NOT overpopulate to survive, but in the far future it will always kill you anyway. In the future this will also be the case. But not immediately, not at the start of the collapse and throughout it. At first, there is absolutely no food for anybody. Nothing to steal to survive. So you can’t have a large army. The larger army can’t win because they can’t feed themselves from the very first. But, should you prepare ahead of time, your small minion army can conquer vast territory. They are the only one able to feed itself, which is THE tactical advantage. Of course, you obviously stay clear of superior forces. The street gang that took over an army unit and got a belt fed machinegun ( if it was an M-60, don’t worry too much about it. That hunk of crap should jam within a half belt ) or even a survivalist group ( the odds are really against it of course ). Take a lesson from our campaign against the Japanese. Island hop them. Let them starve to death, then later you can go back around and take the land.

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There will be plenty of accidental survivors. The occupied grain silo, that sort of thing. But something will trip them up. No fuel for cooking or heat. Not enough ammunition. Dumbasses that want to rock and roll on full semi-auto, thinking the enemy will die from the noise. You don’t want to get too cocky, but the odds are good your squad can act as a much bigger army at taking over a lot of resources. By waiting for a short time, all the food in the cupboards and the lone boxes of ammunition are all used up. Then you move in and start taking over. Not that it is as simple as that, because then you have another issue. How do you feed your serfs while they clear the land and plant a crop and wait for harvest? Odds are, your only option is to take your soldiers and turn them into farmers until a surplus is grown. Which might stop your momentum and even allow you to lose territory. This unsolvable problem, a famine and soil failure feeding on itself, goes a long way explaining why former empire areas stay unpopulated so long after a collapse. For now, I have no solution to offer you. Just take away the fact that, even if it doesn’t solve all your problems, just supplying a small military unit will still put you at a favorable advantage. The regular military units will run out of ammo and MRE’s in a week or so, everyone else not too much better. Wait a short period, and your squad with Russian bolts and wheat can be a formidable New World Order. Sure, it smacks on fiction fantasy. But it does make sense that logistics wins wars.

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