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Friday, August 29, 2008

Hope Is Not A Method

“Hope is not a method.” - Common Military Saying

The above is a statement of pro activity.  If any Soldier were to tell me that he hoped what he was briefing was going to come to fruition, that would be unacceptable.  We in the Army do not have the luxury to ‘hope’ that things will end well.  Hope will get us killed.  Instead, we must plan and take action.  Hope is not a method.

As a leader I can never ‘hope’ that my Soldiers have the proper training.  I can never ‘hope’ that my Soldiers have the proper logistical supplies.  I can never ‘hope’ that my Soldiers will survive the next mission.  Hope is not a method; I live in the real world.

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Well you are an idiot.

All you are showing is that the people you know use the term wrong and they don’t know how to conduct a proper military brief.  They are using it as a replacement for the concrete action of planning.

That doesn’t mean hope is meaningless.  Abstractions are not unimportant.  When people have Hope that their lives will get better and faith in their leaders, their lives actually get better.  When they have Despair, their lives get worse.

Having Hope in a Presidential candidate is not a bad thing.  Only a right wing tool would believe so.

Lestat on August 29, 2008 at 10:04 pm

Having Hope in a Presidential candidate is not a bad thing.  Only a right wing tool would believe so.

Harshly arguing against a straw man. You go, Lestat!

Considering that Obama wants to run the military on his brand of “Hope”, this post is quite clever.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

likwidshoe on August 30, 2008 at 02:17 am
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Abstractions are not unimportant.

I would agree with that, but I’d also point out that having parts of your campaign that aren’t abstractions is pretty important too.


When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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Rob on August 30, 2008 at 06:03 am

Hope is not a method of doing things.

Hope is an emotional plea, a wish, a desire.

Do not confuse a way of getting things done with hope.

sanity on August 30, 2008 at 06:13 am
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