Failure to Launch: Amateur Hour in the White House
Derphoof
We were ready, or so we thought…. So we were told.
We were assured that everything had been coordinated and that the chances of success were very good, not simply for the airstrike, but the rest of the campaign as well.
Late saturday night, we were shown the real state of affairs. BeachBunny’s administration was simply not coordinated enough to pull through on the assurances she had made. From the get go, things looked dire. While we would win D4, D1 and D3 went epic and favored the Paraguayans. Not even BeachBunny, dropping over a billion in D3 could salvage the first round. She had no support in the division, as her nearest compatriot only put down 76m in damage. We lost the first round 10-5.
The second round proved no better than the first. While more support showed up across the board, it simply wasn’t enough to overcome the Chileans, who were adamant on us not landing in the region. Our enemies weren’t putting up a fight in D4, but rather pushing the lower divisions to go epic and seal the lead. It worked and set us back further to 22-10.
This trend would continue throughout the first four rounds as we kept winning D4 and losing everything else. I applaud the NSC for working late into the early morning hours and against all odds, but we simply didn’t have the firepower on our side and the CO’s weren’t effective in bringing in enough foreign damage to outstrip the competition. There’s only so much our population can do on a weekend, a low activity time, even in our primetime, against a nation doing so much more damage.
So, what went wrong? Why did we get so roundly beaten when the administration appeared to be so confident?
It’s simple. The administration has a lack of control, leadership, and sound decision making skills.
From the beginning of the term, advisors and the NSC advised both the President and Congress that we do not directly involve ourselves in the South American conflict. Doing so would be a huge mistake that could cost us a lot of money and would have a low chance of success. Considering how Chile was fairly easily defeated in Europe last month, people may think this to be odd advice. How could a nation like Chile suddenly be such a terrible opponent?
The Chilean community had organized incredibly well for the Regiment Rumble competition set up by Plato. During this competition, they came together and gave it their all. Was a lot of money spent to come out on top? Perhaps. However, they earned a magnificent amount of money which would have made them an incredibly tough opponent for anyone in the near future.
It was mainly based on this information that congressional and presidential advisors, like myself, cautioned heavily against going to war in the region. BeachBunny dismissed this as purely “speculation.” Surely enough, our intuitions came to fruition as Chile started outputting a massive amount of damage compared to usual. Carving into Brazil, fighting off Argentina, and going into Peru, Chile was on track to double their weekly output of damage and challenge Serbia for the top spot on the leaderboards. They were simply on a rampage. Attacking Chile would be equal to attempting an attack on Serbia at this time.
Despite this, BeachBunny decided to go into Chile, believing we could overcome this with allied help. This was after exploring other options, as well. No allies were requesting our help, and those who were asked did not want any… The Greek community is having RL troubles and Europe is fairly quiet. That left those in South America. However, they did not come to us. BeachBunny was looking for war and so the administration went and asked them if they would accept our assistance.
Since they did, BB was determined to have war with Chile, and fast.
As such, the proper amount of planning did not go into this operation.
The same mentality and lack of control that is present in the PDB’s translated itself to IRC, where the president displayed a lack of skill in organizing the situation. This was not something discussed by the cabinet over several days, coordinating with allies and MUs to make sure we had support. Instead, it was a hastily drawn up plan as BB desired to get in as quickly as possible, trying to find the shortest route to war. As she had no prior plan, BB essentially had to be coached by advisors and department heads about how to proceed with her desired war.
When discussion moved to congress, the administration did not say much, except that the eAmerican people wanted a challenge, and that we shouldn’t leave allies out to dry. After that, the discussion mainly turned into a petty squabble that threatened to derail the entire discussion and did for quite some time. Many other questions and concerns were raised, fairly and unfairly, that went unanswered partially due to the petty squabbling.
As such, due to the prohibitive cost, the threat of Chile, and lack of confidence in the plan, the vote in congress nearly failed. Though since it was approved by a slim margin, Congress reacted to the spending by initiating a vote on a 93% increase in taxes to 15%. This was due to the fact that we were simply going to war more often than we were in the past. Depending on your view, this may be a good thing or a bad thing. Regardless, this does not happen without the war with Chile. The three months of expensive war prompted congress to raise the taxes to this amount to prevent the steady erosion of the reserves.
BeachBunny ignored the advice of her cabinet and decided to venture off to war, resulting in nothing short of disaster. She did this without much thought as to the cost and the true challenge of the fight she had suggested. This set off the third major conflict for us in as many months, during a month when most advisors thought it best to sit back and recoup. During this time, BeachBunny’s administration has been sorely lacking in activity and effectiveness. Yet, she tried to bring people together and march off to war.
As it turns out, the whole nation did not come out to get behind the effort. This showed on shout-feeds, comments, and on the battlefield. Some of the public was even very displeased with the idea of the war as well as the target. The media did not prepare the nation for war, and official media was not prompted to do so until late friday night. The whole airstrike debacle shows what appears to be the height of ineptitude and ineffectiveness of BeachBunny and her leadership.
Currently, BeachBunny has admitted failure and promised an internal review into how this all went so wrong. Yet, I believe it is obvious to most people that we were simply underprepared and terribly outmatched. Could we have won the airstrike? Possibly. Yet, it’s not possible with the coordination and timing put in place.
This is not to say we should dig ourselves a trench around our border, play defensive, never take risks, and go for “safe” targets. We must simply hold our leaders to a higher standard when they propose these attacks. We must make better decisions about who, what, where, and when to attack. We must make sure the pieces are in place for success. Make sure all of our MU’s are on board. Make sure the country as well as our allies will be on and ready to give full support. We must make sure we are primed for success when we decide to take risks.
BeachBunny often brought up how Tyler’s war against Chile was boring, expensive, and didn’t live up to its promise. This operation was proposed to be just as long and just as expensive, but it didn’t pan out. While Tyler’s war was boring and expensive, at least it got results.
All I see from this administration is a lack of control, planning, and leadership. I’ve still yet to see any results.
BeachBunny is just about halfway through her term. I hope the second half can get some results.
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“The opposite of failure is not apathy.” - Paul Proteus
We can and must do better. Hold ourselves, our leadership, and our organization to a higher standard. We may fail at times, but it should not be due to a lack of preparedness, strategy, coordination, or sound decision making.
Dear Murricans,
would you like to know about amateurs in Congress???
Here are your representatives that voted in favour of a 93% tax increase making your eCountry the most overtaxed in the history of eRepublik:
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Show them your appreciation with a personal message for a job well done!
And make sure to vote them once again into office on the 25th this month, because maybe you will need another tax increase!!!!!
Thank you for providing this list, I am glad to see the eAmericans who are willing to make the tough decisions for the good of the country.
Again, you think that all other nations are dumb and clueless because their work-tax doesn't even come close to 15%??
Try again!
I voted as such because i was under the impression we needed the money as a nation. Im glad to know where YOUR priories are at.
That's pretty brutal.. :/
Next time think twice before attacking your ex allies like BG and MKD.
Good luck in the future anyway.
Please do not quote Paul Proteus. He will grow a big head 😛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s6aNjJRbrA
Shame on you, eDaughter of BeachBunny, for endorsing this article.
DERPHOOF FORCED ME TO I SWEAR
Very illuminating as always Derphoof. Now that we all understand what happened it becomes possible to move forward.
Voted. Certainly recommended reading.
Dude, please don't play politics this hard. It's rly lame to see this kind of shit in this game
Not saying your comment is invalid, I actually feel that way, but you two clearly work together. This comment would make sense coming from me, not u
You mistake working together to playing together. I fucking love Derps, this isn't politics this is friendship.
Beyond clarifying that, I don't give a shit what you think - and I don't say that aggressively but really. In the words of another close friend of mine, Broforce>Hoeforce.
Here's hoping...
Oh snap.
Personally I didn't fight to express my displeasure with the tax increase. I am just one D2 trooper but perhaps more felt the same way.
Funny, suddenly the 'eUSA forum meta government' is all about transparency; didn't see you out here putting the hatch to Tyler Bubblar when he failed just badly in France.
As for the 93% increase in taxes to 15%. What is the target number being set for our Reserves? At what point will the taxes be lowered to again to 8% to allow the average American Citizen to run a Company?
Citizens need to be dependent; it's not allowed for a new citizens to run his companies profitably. You need to control his game in this segment too!
why do you expect others to try and run players off?
Just one question FS. Do you see Chile in Europe? We succeeded in helping our allies to remove them. Yes we didn't get the big battle we wanted, but we did accomplish the overall objective. We went for the home run,but we had to settle for the ground rule double that positioned the winning run. Not as exciting but still important to the win.
I find this as funny presently time, as the other 30 times you spouted it out. xD
If there hadn't been the US, Chile would have conquered the whole European continent Buahahahahahahahahaha
Failor Bubble Logic
You're a true credit to humanity VT.
Asteria would crumble and fall if there wasn't this huge amount of eUS...
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buttkissing!!
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derpy presidential candidacy confirmed
I approve this message.
You lost the airstrike because the eUS is weaksauce
At least it was something. This game sucks because we sit on our 15/15. No direct conflict for us is great in that we don't lose regions, but it also creates apathy. Without war, why play?
It's true that war can be a source of activity, but it's a mistake to think it automatically is so. I actually think this article answers this point rather well. At least it was something can only be the defense if the alternative to what happened was nothing, which I refuse to believe.
When I go to the Pacifica pages I rea😛 co-Secretary General (USA): Derphoof
What did you do to coordinate the damage of Pacifica countries? You had at least 24 hours, the time it takes for the airstrike to be approved. Apparently, you did nothing!
Who was setting the CO in D2 130cc if under 100% ????
Who stopped setting the CO very early during the airstrike, while the outcome was still open?
You write: ''Make sure all of our MU’s are on board.'' Does War Inc need a special invitation to fight for the eUSA? Take a look here: http://www.egov4you.info/country/history/24 and then let me tell you how it is: this AS was sabotaged by many of your elitist pfriends because you were pissed that your candidate lost the CP vote. So now you are doing anything it takes behind the scenes to regain control. You are even spinning that the tax increase is the fault of the current executive.
You're a hypocrite my pfriend but it doesn't surprise me because you're just a tool of double faced sobs that scream ''country-party-self'', but refuse to fight for that same country because of selfish political reasons.
-I'm not the Co-SG of Pacifica. I'm not sure how long ago that page was last updated. The current SoS of the USA and MoFA of Russia are the usual Co-SG's.
-CO's were set by the NSC.
-They shouldn't. However, MU's do not have to follow the Executives orders or plans. This was well documented during the USA-Taiwan war in 2012 when the eUS Mil and ST6 (I believe) both fought AGAINST the eUS in favor of EDEN. War Inc is also primarily made up of many former eUS Mil and ST6 members, who are very much anti-elite and anti-tax. MU's should be informed of plans, once they are in place.
-eGov is broken. Please check the eRep leaderboards for proper stats. The eUS put out more damage last week than it did the week before, and the week before that. There is nothing underwhelming about how much damage we did.
-I fought, spending whatever EB's I had in the process. However, I'm a weak soldier on the D2 battlefield.
Weekly damage has nothing to do with this; if your country is engaged in an airstrike and private MUs from the eUSA don't direct their damage there or chose not to fight than it's an obvious act of sabotage - thank you for confirming that fact.
So I was wondering who would take advantage of that failure to step forward for next month's CP race. I guess it will be a Derpy/Proteus ticket.
I LOVE YOU DEEPCHILL THANK YOU FOR VOTING MY COMMENT PLEASE NOTICE ME
Wasn't SColbert doing the same kind of hatchet job when Trekker was CP?
Good god, absolutely not.
absolutely haram
that pic is fabulous. i love you derpy
How come I can only endorse once?
"How could a nation like Chile suddenly be such a terrible opponent?"
Well..cz they have the strongest lower divisions in the game..+loyal allies
I still don't see anything written about your allies who didn't show up..
o/
Tax is so high; we could buy the map.
Perhaps but money didn't win the battle. 😉
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DIVULGUE, COMENTE, ENDOSSE E VOTE !
The moral is
- Listen to experienced advisors
- At least consult your allies before taking strategic decisions
Hello Pacifica. I've missed you sooooo fucking much!
FIST
TBH you won't be ever a successful aggressor of the wars simply because you are ready to sacrifice everything in order to be on the winning side with more dmg. You had a chance to remove your previous reputation but you went to Asteria's door as soon as they became the superior alliance.