On war and bureaucracy

"I’m sure there are people who are good at getting things done in government. I am not one of them.

For me, dealing with bureaucracy is frustrating in the extreme. I have what I need to survive here. On the other hand, I believe modern men are only as good as their tools. The society with the best tools always dominates. I wish my tools were better sometimes.

Let me expound on this a little bit - I offered to bring my own weapons to this war. I guess that was thinking way too far outside the box. My pistol and rifle are collecting dust at home. Things like that are just not done, apparently. So I use the rifle issued and the pistol issued, even though they could have gone to someone else and I could have brought and carried my own arguably better equipment, saving the US Army some money while improving my comfort level in the event I happened to need to defend myself or others from an enemy."
the will to exist