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Lance's Legion
19 Feb, 16:32
Never quit.
Never surrender.
Always attack.
And if faced with fear, disaster, or death:
cry "long live death!" and attack once more!
Never surrender.
Always attack.
And if faced with fear, disaster, or death:
cry "long live death!" and attack once more!
Lance's Legion
18 Feb, 05:30
"Men will be divided into two types. To the superior type, which will have risen through the force of its will, everything will be permitted; to the inferior, however, nothing or almost nothing."
— D’Annunzio
— D’Annunzio
Lance's Legion
18 Feb, 05:22
"A strong man does his duty, let it be never so painful, so hazardous, or never so great a loss to him; and it is not all the money, the power, and the pleasure in the world; not any force of necessity, that can make him wicked: he considers what he is to do, not what he is to suffer, and will keep on his course, though there should be nothing but gibbets and torments in the way."
— Seneca
— Seneca
Lance's Legion
15 Feb, 04:16
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45346617?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents
Lance's Legion
15 Feb, 02:35
https://open.substack.com/pub/lanceslegion/p/caesar-imperator-c41?r=s3brk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lance's Legion
14 Feb, 00:46
Don’t expect your team to do what you won’t do.
You set the example as a leader.
If you demand discipline and hard work, you better be putting in the work too.
You set the example as a leader.
If you demand discipline and hard work, you better be putting in the work too.
Lance's Legion
14 Feb, 00:32
https://open.substack.com/pub/lanceslegion/p/war-room-c1f?r=s3brk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lance's Legion
13 Feb, 07:45
You are not defeated when you lose a battle, or even a string of battles.
You lose when you give up.
So long as you keep fighting, you can win.
Get back on the Warpath.
You lose when you give up.
So long as you keep fighting, you can win.
Get back on the Warpath.
Lance's Legion
13 Feb, 07:26
“Men seem to pursue honour in order that they may believe themselves to be good. Accordingly, they seek to be honoured by the wise, and by those who know them well, and on the score of virtue.”
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
Lance's Legion
12 Feb, 18:42
Make yourself invaluable.
Solve problems before they become problems.
The people who move up are the ones who create solutions, not just point out issues.
Solve problems before they become problems.
The people who move up are the ones who create solutions, not just point out issues.
Lance's Legion
12 Feb, 03:29
“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”
— Plutarch
— Plutarch
Lance's Legion
11 Feb, 05:34
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities - I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not - that one endures.”
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
11 Feb, 04:48
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."
— Roman Maxim
— Roman Maxim
Lance's Legion
11 Feb, 00:24
Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests.
Put the team and mission first.
Put the team and mission first.
Lance's Legion
10 Feb, 19:29
"A mythology is a people. The mythology into which we are born is our fate and our determinism. It separates and isolates us in the most intimate sense from other men belonging to other groups."
— José Ortega y Gasset, 'War, Peoples, and Gods'
— José Ortega y Gasset, 'War, Peoples, and Gods'
Lance's Legion
04 Feb, 03:45
FUTURISM MANIFESTO
We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness.
Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry.
Up to now literature has exalted a pensive immobility, ecstasy, and sleep. We intend to exalt aggresive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer’s stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap.
We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath—a roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
We want to hymn the man at the wheel, who hurls the lance of his spirit across the Earth, along the circle of its orbit.
The poet must spend himself with ardor, splendor, and generosity, to swell the enthusiastic fervor of the primordial elements.
Except in struggle, there is no more beauty. No work without an aggressive character can be a masterpiece. Poetry must be conceived as a violent attack on unknown forces, to reduce and prostrate them before man.
We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!... Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the Impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed.
We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.
We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice.
We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervor of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons; greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke; bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives; adventurous steamers that sniff the horizon; deep-chested locomotives whose wheels paw the tracks like the hooves of enormous steel horses bridled by tubing; and the sleek flight of planes whose propellers chatter in the wind like banners and seem to cheer like an enthusiastic crowd.
We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness.
Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry.
Up to now literature has exalted a pensive immobility, ecstasy, and sleep. We intend to exalt aggresive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer’s stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap.
We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath—a roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
We want to hymn the man at the wheel, who hurls the lance of his spirit across the Earth, along the circle of its orbit.
The poet must spend himself with ardor, splendor, and generosity, to swell the enthusiastic fervor of the primordial elements.
Except in struggle, there is no more beauty. No work without an aggressive character can be a masterpiece. Poetry must be conceived as a violent attack on unknown forces, to reduce and prostrate them before man.
We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!... Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the Impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed.
We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.
We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice.
We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervor of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons; greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke; bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives; adventurous steamers that sniff the horizon; deep-chested locomotives whose wheels paw the tracks like the hooves of enormous steel horses bridled by tubing; and the sleek flight of planes whose propellers chatter in the wind like banners and seem to cheer like an enthusiastic crowd.
Lance's Legion
04 Feb, 00:57
https://open.substack.com/pub/lanceslegion/p/war-room-26e?r=s3brk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lance's Legion
03 Feb, 11:21
We had been told, on leaving our native soil, that we were going to defend the sacred rights conferred on us by so many of our citizens settled overseas, so many years of our presence, so many benefits brought by us to populations in need of our assistance and our civilization. We were able to verify that all this was true, and, because it was true, we did not hesitate to shed our quota of blood, to sacrifice our youth and our hopes. We regretted nothing, but whereas we over here are inspired by this frame of mind, I am told that in Rome factions and conspiracies are rife, that treachery flourishes, and that many people in their uncertainty and confusion lend a ready ear to the dire temptations of relinquishment and vilify our action. I cannot believe that all this is true and yet recent wars have shown how pernicious such a state of mind could be and to where it could lead. Make haste to reassure me, I beg you, and tell me that our fellow-citizens understand us, support us and protect us as we ourselves are protecting the glory of the Empire. If it should be otherwise, if we should have to leave our bleached bones on these desert sands in vain, then beware of the anger of the Legions!
MARCUS FLAVINUS,
CENTURION IN THE 2ND COHORT OF THE AUGUSTA LEGION,
TO HIS COUSIN TERTULLUS IN ROME
MARCUS FLAVINUS,
CENTURION IN THE 2ND COHORT OF THE AUGUSTA LEGION,
TO HIS COUSIN TERTULLUS IN ROME
Lance's Legion
02 Feb, 20:25
“Be bold! That's the best way of getting through life.”
— Archilochus
— Archilochus
Lance's Legion
02 Feb, 09:49
Better to succumb against impossible odds and yet glory in the conquest within than prosper through slavery to a conqueror and surrender one's soul forever.
Lance's Legion
02 Feb, 09:08
"The good things of fortune are to be wished; but the good things that come from adversity are to be admired."
— Seneca
— Seneca
Lance's Legion
02 Feb, 06:15
/AGAINST DEMOCRACY/
“The democratic movement is not merely an abased form of political organization, but rather an abased (more specifically a diminished) form of humanity, a mediocritization and depreciation of humanity in value.”
— Nietzsche
“The democratic movement is not merely an abased form of political organization, but rather an abased (more specifically a diminished) form of humanity, a mediocritization and depreciation of humanity in value.”
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
01 Feb, 05:59
"The Romans' readiness of obeying their commanders is so great, that it is very ornamental in peace; but when they come to a battle, the whole army is but one body."
— Josephus
— Josephus
Lance's Legion
31 Jan, 22:02
“Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”
— Sophocles
— Sophocles
Lance's Legion
31 Jan, 05:29
“It is a man’s duty to push himself to the limits of his abilities.”
— Pompey Magnus
— Pompey Magnus
Lance's Legion
31 Jan, 03:34
“Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.”
— Euripides
— Euripides
Lance's Legion
31 Jan, 03:17
“The greater a man is, the more can his wrath be appeased; a noble spirit is capable of kindly impulses.”
— Ovid
— Ovid
Lance's Legion
29 Jan, 06:49
“To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.”
— Epictetus
— Epictetus
Lance's Legion
27 Jan, 06:42
"Prudence and valor. These are the two pillars on which every government ought to rest. Prudence serves the prince as his eye, valor as his hand. Without the former, he would be as a blind man, without the latter he would be powerless. The former commands, the latter executes; the former perceives the difficulties of an enterprise, the latter overcomes them."
— Botero
— Botero
Lance's Legion
25 Jan, 01:59
“The staunchest member of the body is the one that is kept in constant use. We should offer ourselves to Fortune in order that, struggling with her, we may be hardened by her.”
— Seneca
— Seneca
Lance's Legion
24 Jan, 02:39
You people better be locked the FUCK in. The moment of decision is looming, everything hangs in the balance with what is happening right now. You people better be physically fit, mentally tough, and dedicate your soul to the Mars.
The metapolitical tide is turning.
The metapolitical tide is turning.
Lance's Legion
20 Jan, 03:02
"And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
If I was bound for hell,
let it be hell.
No more false heavens.
No more damned magic.
You hate me and I hate you. We'll see who hates best."
— Shakespeare, Richard III
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
If I was bound for hell,
let it be hell.
No more false heavens.
No more damned magic.
You hate me and I hate you. We'll see who hates best."
— Shakespeare, Richard III
Lance's Legion
19 Jan, 03:36
When you get faced with this ultimate, brutal challenge, when life is just about to crush you, that’s when you have the biggest opportunity to prove who you are.
Lance's Legion
19 Jan, 03:27
As a leader, you have to put others before yourself.
That starts at the beginning, and it must be reflected in everything that you do.
That starts at the beginning, and it must be reflected in everything that you do.
Lance's Legion
17 Jan, 14:31
"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair."
— Homer
— Homer
Lance's Legion
17 Jan, 09:19
“Valor, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies…”
— Plutarch
— Plutarch
Lance's Legion
16 Jan, 23:25
The majority of Boomer/"Dissident" Right discourse amounts to:
“Guys, whatever you do, DON’T PURSUE POWER. There is still a woke person somewhere out there. You need to put your life on pause until everyone is based.”
No wonder why the commies have been winning for the last 200 years.
Purity spiralling is the most self-defeating phenomenon ever.
“Guys, whatever you do, DON’T PURSUE POWER. There is still a woke person somewhere out there. You need to put your life on pause until everyone is based.”
No wonder why the commies have been winning for the last 200 years.
Purity spiralling is the most self-defeating phenomenon ever.
Lance's Legion
16 Jan, 20:21
“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
— Joseph Campbell
— Joseph Campbell
Lance's Legion
16 Jan, 19:26
https://open.substack.com/pub/lanceslegion/p/caesar-imperator-971?r=s3brk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lance's Legion
16 Jan, 17:29
“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
— Ovid
— Ovid
Lance's Legion
16 Jan, 04:29
"...not self-preservation, but the desire to appropriate, to become master, to become more, to become stronger."
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
15 Jan, 18:47
“Unimpaired prosperity cannot withstand a single blow, but he who has struggled constantly with his ills becomes hardened through suffering; and yields to no misfortune; nay, even if he falls, he still fights upon his knees.”
— Seneca
— Seneca
Lance's Legion
14 Jan, 14:53
"I suspect every soldier at one time or another experiences a degree of fear. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the willingness to rise above fear and do the things you know need to be accomplished."
— Dick Winters
— Dick Winters
Lance's Legion
14 Jan, 00:47
You should be afraid.
Of waking up in six days, or six weeks, or six years, or sixty years and being no closer to your goal. You've made no progress.
That is the horror. That is the nightmare.
Of waking up in six days, or six weeks, or six years, or sixty years and being no closer to your goal. You've made no progress.
That is the horror. That is the nightmare.
Lance's Legion
13 Jan, 19:05
https://open.substack.com/pub/lanceslegion/p/war-room-979?r=s3brk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lance's Legion
12 Jan, 19:56
Do not take the easy way out.
Do not give up based on instinct.
If you are forced to stand down, to retreat so you can rebuild and re-attack, so be it.
But make that decision based on logic, not on the instinct of surrender and defeat.
Do not give up based on instinct.
If you are forced to stand down, to retreat so you can rebuild and re-attack, so be it.
But make that decision based on logic, not on the instinct of surrender and defeat.
Lance's Legion
12 Jan, 14:49
Life isn’t easy. And it’s not supposed to be. Sure, there’s victories and there’s triumphs. But there’s also losses and setbacks. But those losses and setbacks only win if you let them. So don’t let them. No matter what happens, keep going, keep getting after it.
Lance's Legion
12 Jan, 00:31
https://open.substack.com/pub/lanceslegion/p/technica-f27?r=s3brk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lance's Legion
11 Jan, 19:51
“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
— Seneca
— Seneca
Lance's Legion
11 Jan, 18:30
"Be strong in heart, firm, and confident, always expecting victory, not defeat, whether or not you are on top, for whatever the situation, you will always do well because of the good hopes that you have."
— Geoffroi de Charny
— Geoffroi de Charny
Lance's Legion
10 Jan, 22:19
The first function of leadership is discipline, and that discipline starts with yourself. It is us.
We have to train. We have to prepare. We have to harden ourselves through suffering.
And while it hurts, discipline is what will ultimately bring us excellence.
We have to train. We have to prepare. We have to harden ourselves through suffering.
And while it hurts, discipline is what will ultimately bring us excellence.
Lance's Legion
10 Jan, 19:53
https://open.substack.com/pub/lanceslegion/p/caesar-imperator-1ad?r=s3brk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lance's Legion
09 Jan, 19:51
https://open.substack.com/pub/lanceslegion/p/war-room-443?r=s3brk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lance's Legion
09 Jan, 04:58
"Expediency is nothing more than an ethically fastidious rejection of extreme refinement of any kind. One must be stubborn, and eccentric. From ancient times most samurai have been of eccentric spirit, strong willed, and courageous."
— Yukio Mishima, 'The Way of the Samurai'
— Yukio Mishima, 'The Way of the Samurai'
Lance's Legion
09 Jan, 03:37
Courage inspires courage.
Show courage and you will see others become courageous.
The Enemy wins when you fear, when you acquiesce, when you submit.
Deny the Enemy.
Be bold. Be selfless.
Win.
Show courage and you will see others become courageous.
The Enemy wins when you fear, when you acquiesce, when you submit.
Deny the Enemy.
Be bold. Be selfless.
Win.
Lance's Legion
09 Jan, 02:06
"Away from weakness and toward strength. Away from laziness and toward action. Away from comfort and towards the discipline. Away from catastrophe and toward victory."
— JOCKO
— JOCKO
Lance's Legion
07 Jan, 04:30
“Whatever Fortune sends, we master it all by bearing it all, we must!”
— Virgil, The Aeneid
— Virgil, The Aeneid
Lance's Legion
06 Jan, 22:33
"There are men for whom winter is not an enemy but a mirror; it reflects back to them their own essence, cold and invincible."
— Jünger
— Jünger
Lance's Legion
06 Jan, 05:39
“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”
— Plutarch
— Plutarch
Lance's Legion
06 Jan, 04:10
There are always reasons to quit, the strength of your Will is determined by affirming the reasons to keep fighting.
Lance's Legion
06 Jan, 04:00
No matter how hard life beats me down, I will always dream big, with luster, and act on those dreams.
They call Don Quixote a fool for dueling windmills, and maybe I am a fool too, but you will see me side by side with him charging giants till the sun sets, hearts ablaze.
They call Don Quixote a fool for dueling windmills, and maybe I am a fool too, but you will see me side by side with him charging giants till the sun sets, hearts ablaze.
Lance's Legion
06 Jan, 03:41
“Manhood is tested by trial, and valour climbs unterrified the rocky path and difficult ascent that leads to glory.”
— Silius Italicus
— Silius Italicus
Lance's Legion
05 Jan, 23:17
"Life is the result of war and society is the instrument of war. To reject war means to reject an epic life."
— General Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
— General Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Lance's Legion
04 Jan, 17:14
"The greatest moments of life are not those of comfort or ease but those when we confront our own limits and overcome them. To live is to struggle, to wrestle with one’s demons, and to transform suffering into strength. The weak seek pity and escape, but the strong embrace hardship as a forge that tempers their soul. True greatness arises not from avoiding the challenges of life but from confronting them head-on."
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
03 Jan, 03:29
"Ancient Ideals, in their inexorable hardness and brutality, ought to be awakened, as the mightiest of monsters that they are."
— Nietzsche, Will to Power
— Nietzsche, Will to Power
Lance's Legion
03 Jan, 02:47
You can either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Lance's Legion
02 Jan, 23:26
"One must need to be strong—otherwise one will never become strong."
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
01 Jan, 21:59
"Spartan law demanded that the young men stand naked in public for inspection every ten days.
They were commended if their bodies were solid, strong, and well honed by exercise. But if any were soft or had gained fat through sluggishness, they were beaten."
— Aelian, History
They were commended if their bodies were solid, strong, and well honed by exercise. But if any were soft or had gained fat through sluggishness, they were beaten."
— Aelian, History
Lance's Legion
01 Jan, 16:14
“The Germans consider it both tame and stupid to acquire by immense toil what they might win by courage, valor or blood.”
—Tacitus, Germania
—Tacitus, Germania
Lance's Legion
31 Dec, 23:51
"Men seem to pursue honour in order that they may believe themselves to be good. Accordingly, they seek to be honoured by the wise, and by those who know them well, and on the score of virtue.”
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
Lance's Legion
31 Dec, 23:46
Discipline can seem like it’s your worst enemy.
But the reality is: discipline is your best friend.
It will take care of you like nothing else can.
And it will put you on that path to strength and health and intelligence and happiness—and most importantly, it will put you on that path to freedom.
JOCKO
But the reality is: discipline is your best friend.
It will take care of you like nothing else can.
And it will put you on that path to strength and health and intelligence and happiness—and most importantly, it will put you on that path to freedom.
JOCKO
Lance's Legion
29 Dec, 03:17
Focus on making yourself who you want to be: faster, smarter, stronger, more humble, less ego.
Discipline your body so you can free your mind.
Get up early and go get after it. And be that person that you want to be.
Discipline your body so you can free your mind.
Get up early and go get after it. And be that person that you want to be.
Lance's Legion
28 Dec, 12:51
General Eisenhower once said, "The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men." I agree with Ike. Leaders are not born. Leaders are made; and they are made by solid effort and hard work.
— Dick Winters
— Dick Winters
Lance's Legion
28 Dec, 00:09
Make the most out of the opportunities that you have through discipline, through hard work, through focus and drive.
Lance's Legion
26 Dec, 16:27
What happened to leadership? What happened to defending the brothers and sisters of the Patria? What happened to fighting not just for the mission, but for the victory of the team?
Now you see why merchants can't be allowed to rule.
Crassus lived as he died, drinking gold.
Now you see why merchants can't be allowed to rule.
Crassus lived as he died, drinking gold.
Lance's Legion
26 Dec, 11:35
Legionary: have no fear.
No obstacle is too great.
No challenge, too daunting.
No path is too uncertain.
Always move forward, and you will be unstoppable.
No obstacle is too great.
No challenge, too daunting.
No path is too uncertain.
Always move forward, and you will be unstoppable.
Lance's Legion
25 Dec, 13:11
“If, then, you hear that men are dying or wounded, do not seize on the news with loud wailing. For this is the food of Mars, human blood.”
— Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes
— Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes
Lance's Legion
23 Dec, 07:01
Those who dare to fail miserably will achieve the highest peaks of greatness.
Lance's Legion
21 Dec, 12:20
"If you know you won’t give up. And you know you won’t give in. And if you test yourself and you fail, but you know you’re gonna get back up again. If you know that, then you know that your character is strong. And that’s what matters."
— JOCKO
— JOCKO
Lance's Legion
20 Dec, 15:01
Cut your heart out for a great passion, and with the blood, write a poem of your life.
Lance's Legion
19 Dec, 14:22
“Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above the others.”
— Homer, The Iliad
— Homer, The Iliad
Lance's Legion
19 Dec, 13:57
“What is it that we combat in Christianity? That it aims at destroying the strong, at breaking their spirit, at exploiting their moments of weariness and debility, at converting proud assurance into anxiety and conscience trouble; that it knows how to poison the noblest instincts and to infect them with disease until their strength, their will to power, turns inwards, against themselves — until the strong perish from excessive self contempt and self-immolation: that gruesome way of perishing.”
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
19 Dec, 04:05
A leader must inspire through action, not just words.
Words alone do not motivate; actions do. A leader who leads by example—working hard, staying disciplined, and embodying the values they promote—sets the standard for the team.
Inspiration comes from seeing a leader’s consistent effort and commitment, proving they are invested in the mission and the people they lead.
Words alone do not motivate; actions do. A leader who leads by example—working hard, staying disciplined, and embodying the values they promote—sets the standard for the team.
Inspiration comes from seeing a leader’s consistent effort and commitment, proving they are invested in the mission and the people they lead.
Lance's Legion
18 Dec, 14:31
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
— Theodore Roosevelt
Lance's Legion
16 Dec, 03:54
"... not contentment, but more power. Not peace at last, but war; not virtue, but excellence."
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
13 Dec, 21:34
"When it comes to helping people in need, the world needs fewer people who are calculating what they're going to get out of it, and a whole lot more people who will simply do the right thing."
— Chad Robichaux, A Mission Without Borders
— Chad Robichaux, A Mission Without Borders
Lance's Legion
25 Nov, 04:14
My greatest contention:
Purposeful cruelty, imposed iron-discipline, contempt, supra-egoism, sharp justice, tyranny, and tough love have done more for elevating man than liberty ever has.
Excellence is gotten by harsh and painful means.
Purposeful cruelty, imposed iron-discipline, contempt, supra-egoism, sharp justice, tyranny, and tough love have done more for elevating man than liberty ever has.
Excellence is gotten by harsh and painful means.
Lance's Legion
23 Nov, 16:02
“Strive to do small things well. Be a doer and a self-starter—aggressiveness and initiative are two most admired qualities in a leader—but you must also put your feet up and think. Strive for self-improvement through constant self-evaluation. Never be satisfied. Ask of any project, How can it be done better? Don’t overinspect or oversupervise. Allow your leaders to make mistakes in training, so they can profit from the errors and not make them in combat. Keep the troops informed; telling them “what, how, and why” builds their confidence. The harder the training, the more troops will brag. Enthusiasm, fairness, and moral and physical courage—four of the most important aspects of leadership. Showmanship—a vital technique of leadership. The ability to speak and write well—two essential tools of leadership. There is a salient difference between profanity and obscenity; while a leader employs profanity (tempered with discretion), he never uses obscenities. Have consideration for others. Yelling detracts from your dignity; take men aside to counsel them. Understand and use judgment; know when to stop fighting for something you believe is right. Discuss and argue your point of view until a decision is made, and then support the decision wholeheartedly. Stay ahead of your boss.”
― Col. Hackworth, About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
― Col. Hackworth, About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
Lance's Legion
21 Nov, 09:30
“When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be we make him what he should be.”
― Goethe
― Goethe
Lance's Legion
21 Nov, 04:07
"The past cannot be changed, the future is yet in our power."
— Alexander the Great
— Alexander the Great
Lance's Legion
21 Nov, 00:50
"When choosing between the most audacious or the most careful solution: no military leader has ever become great without being audacious"
— Clausewitz
— Clausewitz
Lance's Legion
20 Nov, 22:24
"War does not transform men; it returns them to their native end. War is the natural state of males."
— Quinton
— Quinton
Lance's Legion
20 Nov, 22:19
https://x.com/LancesLegion/status/1859354614883287181
TECHNICA
7 SECOND KILL CHAIN
CASE STUDY – THE SECOND NAGORNO KARABAKH WAR
(Twitter Thread)
TECHNICA
7 SECOND KILL CHAIN
CASE STUDY – THE SECOND NAGORNO KARABAKH WAR
(Twitter Thread)
Lance's Legion
20 Nov, 04:49
"Humanity has learned to call pity a virtue, when in the entire superior moral system it is considered a weakness."
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
18 Nov, 21:10
"The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!"
― Nietzsche
― Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
18 Nov, 05:30
"What is a desire if it be not: a provocation of the feeling of power by an obstacle (or, better still, by rhythmical obstacles and resisting forces) — so that it surges through it? Thus in all pleasure pain is understood. — If the pleasure is to be very great, the pains preceding it must have been very long, and the whole bow of life must have been strained to the utmost."
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
16 Nov, 23:25
Courage has conquered more impossible odds than any calculating prudence ever has.
Remember that, Legionary.
Remember that, Legionary.
Lance's Legion
14 Nov, 00:55
https://open.substack.com/pub/lanceslegion/p/technica-a73?r=s3brk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lance's Legion
13 Nov, 22:01
“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.”
― Goethe
― Goethe
Lance's Legion
12 Nov, 15:01
"Get back up when you fail. Glory in acting like a Roman."
— Marcus Aurelius
— Marcus Aurelius
Lance's Legion
12 Nov, 14:35
"The feeling of being surcharged, the feeling accompanying an increase in strength, quite apart from the utility of the struggle, is the actual progress: from these feelings the will to war is first derived."
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
03 Nov, 19:44
"The forces within us can raise or lower us. It depends on the use we make of them, on whether we control them and therefore ourselves. Discipline comes from within yourself. You accept it because you follow a higher will.”
— Helmut Stellrecht
— Helmut Stellrecht
Lance's Legion
03 Nov, 05:36
Heraclitism.
Brethren, war’s the origin
Of happiness on earth:
Powder-smoke and battle-din
Witness friendship’s birth!
Friendship means three things, you know,
Kinship in luckless plight,
Equality before the foe
Freedom in death’s sight!
Nietzsche
Brethren, war’s the origin
Of happiness on earth:
Powder-smoke and battle-din
Witness friendship’s birth!
Friendship means three things, you know,
Kinship in luckless plight,
Equality before the foe
Freedom in death’s sight!
Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
02 Nov, 06:08
"Tell the Romans that by heaven’s will, Rome shall be capital of the world.
Let them learn to be soldiers. Let them know, and teach their children, that no power on earth can stand against Roman arms."
— Livy
Let them learn to be soldiers. Let them know, and teach their children, that no power on earth can stand against Roman arms."
— Livy
Lance's Legion
02 Nov, 04:41
The most important element of leadership is understanding how followers perceive our actions.
Lance's Legion
31 Oct, 03:26
“That the dangerousness of his situation must grow to tremendous proportions, that his power of invention and dissembling must struggle up beneath the protracted oppression and compulsion, that his will to live must be enhanced to an unconditional will to power and to overpower, and that danger, severity, violence, danger in the street as well as in the heart, inequality of rights, concealment, stoicism, the art of experiment, devilry of all kinds, in short the opposite of all the herd thinks desirable, are necessary for the elevation of the type man. A morality with such reverse intentions, which desires to train men for the heights, not for comfort and mediocrity, a morality with the intention of training a ruling caste - the future masters of the earth.
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
31 Oct, 01:25
Keep fighting, keep daring, keep going.
The only real failure is actually giving up.
The only real failure is actually giving up.
Lance's Legion
29 Oct, 05:16
"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
Lance's Legion
27 Oct, 00:32
Dedicate yourself to the discipline of the warrior.
Make your body a weapon of war, Legionary.
Become beautiful, so as to leave a piece of art on the field of battle.
Make your body a weapon of war, Legionary.
Become beautiful, so as to leave a piece of art on the field of battle.
Lance's Legion
25 Oct, 20:24
“It is important to note that it is precisely the most vigorous life that sacrifices itself most willingly. It is better to go down like a bursting meteor than to go out trembling.”
— Jünger, War as an Inner Experience
— Jünger, War as an Inner Experience
Lance's Legion
25 Oct, 20:19
https://open.substack.com/pub/lanceslegion/p/technica-f9f?r=s3brk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lance's Legion
23 Oct, 20:20
"If a man wants to become a hero the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he will lack his proper enemy."
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
23 Oct, 03:26
"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honour, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth living."
— Decimus Junius Juvenalis
— Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Lance's Legion
21 Oct, 15:30
"Only he who feels secure while being in immediate proximity to death finds himself in the highest state of Will."
— Jünger, On Pain
— Jünger, On Pain
Lance's Legion
21 Oct, 15:15
"Leadership is your ability to build the relationships with people around you, instill belief into them, belief in the mission, and actually go inspire them to take action."
— JOCKO
— JOCKO
Lance's Legion
21 Oct, 00:53
"I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world."
— Titus Livius
— Titus Livius
Lance's Legion
20 Oct, 23:15
"Every comfort has a price. The condition of a domestic animal leads to that of a slaughter beast."
— Jünger
— Jünger
Lance's Legion
20 Oct, 19:14
“So spoke the King: ‘Be with me, as I found my City, Jupiter, Father Mars, and Mother Vesta: and all you Gods whom piety summons, take note. Let my work be done beneath your auspices. May it last long, and rule a conquered world, all subject, from the lands of the rising to the setting sun!’ Jupiter added His omen to Romulus’ prayer, with thunder on the left, and His lightning flashing leftward in the sky…”
— Ovid, Fasti, Book IV
— Ovid, Fasti, Book IV
Lance's Legion
20 Oct, 01:45
"But you, Roman, remember, rule with all your power,
The peoples of the earth – these will be your arts:
To put your stamp on the works and ways of order,
To subjugate the defeated, and break the proud in war."
— Virgil
The peoples of the earth – these will be your arts:
To put your stamp on the works and ways of order,
To subjugate the defeated, and break the proud in war."
— Virgil
Lance's Legion
19 Oct, 18:37
“….from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule….”
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
Lance's Legion
19 Oct, 14:42
“The heroic spirits are those who in the midst of tragic horror say to themselves, 'Yes!': they are hard enough to feel suffering as pleasure.”
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Lance's Legion
17 Oct, 18:33
"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."
— Thucydides
— Thucydides
Lance's Legion
16 Oct, 04:26
“Rome is an eternal thought in the mind of Zeus. For if there were no gods at all, I would revere them. If there was no Rome, I would dream of her.”
— Roman General, Marcus Lucinius Crassus
— Roman General, Marcus Lucinius Crassus
Lance's Legion
15 Oct, 16:29
https://open.substack.com/pub/lanceslegion/p/technica-1c4?r=s3brk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Lance's Legion
11 Oct, 23:24
The impediment to action advances action.
The obstacle is the way, Legionary.
The obstacle is the way, Legionary.
Lance's Legion
08 Oct, 19:39
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2023/november/maneuver-warfare-not-dead-it-must-evolve
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