Warriorism. Training the Warrior. Wars of Choice or Necessity. Taming the Beast.

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Wars of choice or necessity,  How to discern.  Anticipating some war of necessity, to what degree is warriorism a necessity as well.  Or can the training, the skills, the leadership arise when needed.

Issues: Perhaps a war is necessary for defense: in case of overwhelming force on the way, and belief in a "righteous cause" that must, must survive. Or one's own life. Survival. Warriors then, there must needs be. Those trained and willing to die for the Cause; to protect self and others.  Warrior skills can be verbal, strategic, as well as physical.

Warrior; old japanning woodcut 

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Warrior skills training, when taken seriously, for a real world and not mere presence, have to start early. The old times.

Sparta. See this good overview, by Andrew Murphy at ://www.helium.com/items/795298-training-warriors-in-ancient-sparta/.

King Leonidas, Battle of Thermopylae, Greece

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These days, warrioring can be gender-neutral.  

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Role model; ideal postercop
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How about the rest of us.

Do warrior skills have a place. Or does the clout of the warrior highjack our independent judgment as to what is needed, necessary; and what is a conflict of someone's choice.

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1. Warrior skills are severable from belief in a Cause.   Having one does not necessarily lead to the other.


Sometimes warrior skills are promoted for self-development. Nothing to do with a "cause" beyond self. Fitness spun into imagination, or sensible psychology, or fantasy. Pick one, or all.  Wars of necessity or choice, ;way back in 2003, issues still relevant,  at ://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2003/12/b13867.html/.  And an issue in the Civil War - see ://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/august/necessity-war.htm/.

2.  Warrior skills are severable from physical force; and can be just as difficult to learn.

a) war internal, against a negative mindset, self-doubt, and

b) war internal, to enable a person to stand by his or her principles; but no conclusions are made as to the merit of those principles. Skills: any old racist, misogynist, agist, genderist, whatever, can learn and swagger. Warrior skills apart from merit.

3.   Warrior skills communicate, in a sense of confidence that helps affect outcomes, even deflect war.  Is that so?

In that sense, it is good for everybody who wants not to be trod, upon, regardless of the beliefs behind them. Are you the poor sap on the beach with the bruiser kicking sand in his face. No mas! Learn the moves, get the confidence, probably very true to a degree. Would our Treasury Secretary make a better impression if he had some theater behind him, voice training, a sense of presence. See ://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/14/business/14nocera.html/ for overview of his presentation on the bailout. Part deux.

If you know how to defend, how to put others down, you exude perhaps some sense to others that you are not to be messed with.

War against commercial fraud? Perhaps the gullible need help Or is it rule of tough. Or are we expected to have some common sense, to know that this is permissible puffing on the part of seller to sellee. Simple physical fitness, is touted as stuff for the warrior. If that sells, fine; but perhaps fitness should be separated from testosterone addiction issues. Or not? Free country? Sure. So, buyer beware.

See "Warrior Training" at ://www.real-strength-training.com/warrior.html / Serious combat athletes - do your own search. The concept for increasing masculinity presence, even as defense for women, as is needed in many cases, is all over - learn the martial arts, it is good for you, and it surely is as exercise and discipline. You can even do it in 5 days - ://www.enlightenedwarrior.com/.

Note the use of "enlightened" in connection with lethal skills - as though our use of kicking against the mugger or the bully piggybacks on the great eastern religions of enlightenment.

4. Is flaunting the aura of warriorism mere manipulation? Does it matter if it works.

As any of this results in knee-jerk or foot-kick automatic reaction to support the first warrior on the airwaves, we need caution in who and how we teach - or let on those airwaves unfettered.
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Justice trashed; newly captioned from a Godey's Lady's Book 1865 woodcut