"My maxim was, la carrière est ouverte aux talents, without distinction of birth or fortune." - Napoleon.
Some men are born soldiers. Most are not.
The best armies identify inborn talent and natural ability, and elevate individuals possessed with the hunger for war.
The age of mass armies produced millions of casualties because military training, advanced equipment, emotional state propaganda, and scientific management can not turn regular individuals into warriors overnight. Good soldiers aren't made in a lab.
The mass conscription going on in Ukraine currently goes against all military logic, human nature, religion, natural law, tradition, everything. It is evil.
It's not an easy decision to choose to be a warrior and to sacrifice your life for a greater cause. But it must be a willing choice. Otherwise you're just a slave heading to a pointless slaughter.
A lot of Ukrainians are suffering this fate. The war with Russia is a contrived spectacle that should have never been waged. Ukraine was not being invaded. The Russian threat was exaggerated. Painful memories of past Russian transgressions were conjured up by the Neocons and the fools in Washington to get that country in a war frenzy. Those war criminals must ultimately be hanged for their crimes. They sent a generation of Ukrainians to early graves for nothing.
When war is necessary you don't need to drag men out of their homes. In Finland during WWII a man like Törni didn't need to be prodded to fight. And once he discovered that he was extremely good at it there was no holding him back from killing as many Soviets as he could.
But he was one of a kind. With drones and AI now dominating the battlefield the likes of Törni will never be seen again.
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Lauri Allan Törni (28 May 1919 – 18 October 1965), later known as Larry Alan Thorne, was a Finnish-born soldier who fought under three countries: as a Finnish Army officer in the Winter War and the Continuation War ultimately gaining a rank of captain; as a Waffen-SS captain (under the alias Larry Laine) of the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS when he fought the Red Army on the Eastern Front in World War II; and as a United States Army Major (under the alias "Larry Thorne") when he served in the U.S. Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War.
Video Title: Lauri Torni Biography Part 1: Soldier of Three Armies. Source: Forgotten Weapons. Date Published: October 3, 2025.
