General Milley Warns America Must Prepare for the Future War, Threats Posed by China and Russia
Channel: Jeremy Vindiciam Libertatis
Date: 2022-12-05

General Milley warns us of the rapidly changing threat landscape and our need to continually innovate to ensure we maintain our edge on the battlefield as China and Russia challenge the post-World War order.

Appeasing our adversaries is folly, for it only emboldens the aggressor, driving us closer to the World War we wish to avoid, but are willing to fight.

To maintain peace, we must have strength. Strength in our traditions, economic and social prosperity bequeathed by our freedoms, decisive will from our courage to always fight for what we know in our hearts to be morally just, and deterrence through the combined might of our partnerships with likeminded nations and peoples of the world.

We must inoculate our minds and root ourselves in our Classically Liberal philosophy of Liberty, which for so long has blessed our nation in the pantheon of human achievement. This is a fight not simply for whether we, ourselves, shall be free, but ensuring those who would destroy freedom never dictate the future course of life on this planet.

The fate and survival of our species hinges upon our success. Now is the time to renew our unshakable oaths, our sacred promise, pledging our lives and loyalty to the generations yet unborn, that no time should dawn under the enemies of freedom and their genocidal totalitarianism. Our duty to preserve freedom does not extend only to generations future, but also sacrifices past, every son and daughter, father and mother, and brother and sister, who gave their lives for each of us to live in freedom. We owe it to every man, woman, and child who has ever been held in bondage, whose freedom and destiny was so viciously pilfered and denied by the ideologues who are once again unleashing their terror upon the peoples of the world.

President Reagan said it best in his inaugural address of 1981:

"Beyond those monuments to heroism is the Potomac River, and on the far shore the sloping hills of Arlington National Cemetery, with its row upon row of simple white markers bearing crosses or Stars of David. They add up to only a tiny fraction of the price that has been paid for our freedom.

Each one of those markers is a monument to the kind of hero I spoke of earlier. Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno, and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam.

Under one such marker lies a young man, Martin Treptow, who left his job in a small town barbershop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire.

We're told that on his body was found a diary. On the flyleaf under the heading, 'My Pledge,' he had written these words: 'America must win this war. Therefore I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.' "

Let us all be inspired by the courage of Treptow. Let us go forth into the world with renewal in his uniquely American spirit, acting as conduits for the divine message of freedom and goodwill.