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Pete Hegseth orders Navy to strip name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk from ship in time for Pride Month (www.independent.co.uk)

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Defense secretary’s memo says stripping the name of the Navy veteran is part of an effort to reestablish ‘warrior culture’

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[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

literally one of the biggest components of sun tzus art of war is exactly that.

"the supreme art of war is to subdue your enemy without fighting"

essentially, if you have an enemy, and can work things out democratically, or in other non violent ways, then you win. if you cannot do that, you have failed, and have to wage a traditional war, which is costly to both sides. and thus should be avoided.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Asimov also had this concept baked into the foundation series. "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent".