Well written. And I say that even after seeing everything unfold on Twitter. The basic point you made, even with that crude but understandable Jenner reference, is something I agree with. The problem with the post-modernist overtly academic Western military, is that it is different from those men, who landed on the beaches of Normandy with blood on their eyes, unhampered by existential dilemmas and moral anguish.

Well, I ended up apologizing (https://medium.com/rethinking-security/one-last-take-on-the-wotr-piece-49be9487e2d7). There are only so many eyeballs on the Internet and if I cannot keep it civil then people will divert their eyeballs away from my own corner.

I saw. Fair enough, but the only person needed to apologise was him. No academic debate can justify threat of violence.