The "Book Operation"

The Demand for DoD Accountability

The Book Operation?

Have you heard of the “Book Operation?”

Probably not. We need to change that.

Perhaps if we had known this was going to become an enduring, multi-phase operation we would have come up with a better name. In any case, too few people know of the Book Operation.

I'm proud to have played a small part in this operation even if my role was exceptionally minor compared to the contributions of others. The “operation” was also not my idea.

My aim here is not necessarily to give a sweeping description of the entirety of the Book Operation but rather to let people know what has happened and is still happening.

Crimes within DoD

I have not been shy about calling attention to the actions perpetrated against the nation by the leaders of its own military. One of my first calls of this type was in the aptly named Treason and Cowardice. While boldly calling attention to what's going on, I have sought to be direct but also measured rather than flippant or reckless in my demands for accountability.

The U.S. Department of Defense seems to be concerned with many things these days that have nothing to do with military readiness. In fact, some of their apparent priorities seem to be in direct opposition to the high state of readiness that Americans should demand of their armed forces.

The problems within the military will not be easily solved because no one in a position with the requisite levels of authority to create significant change has the courage to pursue these changes. In fact, at this stage we should ask ourselves what are the selection criteria (unspoken perhaps) that are used when determining which leaders will occupy positions of prominence. Speaking specifically of my own previous service branch, the Army, I must ask: what loyalty test(s) did these newly selected division commanders and above pass in order to be selected for these commands or other positions of prestige and importance? The same question can be asked of the senior officers (and senior enlisted leaders) in similar billets within the other service branches.

While the issues plaguing the Department of Defense are much larger than just the controversies surrounding the covid-19 vaccine mandate, this issue has provided a clear lesson for those who have paid attention. That lesson is that DoD leadership has in mind some agenda that is a higher priority than readiness and is willing to significantly sacrifice readiness to pursue this higher agenda (whatever that agenda may be). We have also learned a second, equally disturbing lesson, which is that most leaders within the military will go along with that alternative agenda even if it means destroying readiness and violating the values and culture that once gave us the most powerful armed forces in the world.

Again, while acknowledging that the military’s myriad problems existed before the covid-19 vaccine mandate, we must also realize that if we do not rectify this particular problem with the unlawful and clearly destructive mandate, the military will not recover. Indeed, at this point the future of the republic itself is at stake.

One example of the total inversion of values within the military can be seen in its treatment of two specific groups of troops over the last two years. On the one hand, we have witnessed the promotion of those who turned a blind eye to the military’s unlawful and strategically destructive actions while, on the other hand, we have observed that the service members with the greatest adherence to the military’s longstanding cultural values and the greatest ability to perceive the actual threats to our republic were shunned, marginalized, coerced, threatened, and in many cases involuntarily discharged.

In the case of this latter group, what was their “misconduct?” It was that their loyalty to the Constitution, love of country, and strategic ability to understand the true threats to our freedom far exceeded that of senior leaders in the Pentagon.

There has been pushback against the criminals in the Pentagon and nearly all of it has come from those currently serving in the ranks of the military or those who recently left the service (whether of their own accord or via involuntary discharge).

The Book Operation

One of the methods through which accountability has been demanded is through the distribution among senior leaders of the recently published book by Rob Green called Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines. Green, a Commander in the U.S. Navy, wrote the book to generate awareness of the constitutional fight ongoing within the military surrounding the mandate of the covid-19 vaccine. He details his own story of resistance against the unlawful mandate but also shares the experiences of various other service members who faced egregious acts of tyranny in their own units.

The book has come to represent the story of thousands of service members persecuted by their own military. Many of these troops view Rob’s book as their own because of the voice that it gives them in bringing to light their sufferings. In this sense, Rob’s book is an artifact. It's a tangible item that exists in the real, material world. This can’t be denied. The claims, evidence, and argumentation must be studied and duly considered. The book must then be dealt with, either by accepting its claims and acting in line with the information presented or by openly and directly refuting the book through the presentation of counter-claims and the provision of counter-evidence to support any opposing argumentation.

Since the publication of the book (on July 4 of this year, appropriately enough), military leaders have clearly chosen the cowardly approach of non-engagement. They have decided to “wish away” the book, thereby choosing to ignore the damning claims it presents. They know they can’t refute the claims Green makes and by engaging in any feeble attempts to refute these claims, they know they would risk further exposure of the extent of their crimes.

Despite the desire of these senior military leaders to ignore the book, certain courageous service members have decided that they will not permit these cowards to pretend there isn't ample evidence of their crimes.

Billy Moseley is one of these individuals. While Rob Green wrote the book itself, you might refer to Billy Moseley as the “father of the Book Operation.” Moseley, a Navy lieutenant, is significant in his own right because he already holds a win over the Navy in a showdown over the vaccine mandate. Moseley's story is prominently featured in Rob’s book (a overview can be found here). He scored a victory over the Navy in an administrative separation board that was the result of his command's attempts to discharge him for refusing the vaccine. Moseley’s attorney, R. Davis Younts, rightly convinced the board that the mandate was unlawful thereby refuting the Navy's claim that he had committed misconduct in resisting it.

Shortly after the release of Green's book, Moseley got the idea to send out copies of the book to senior officers in the Navy. A few months earlier, he had printed out copies of one of my previous Substack posts, An Appeal to Those Who Went Along, and mailed the printed copies of that post to the official headquarters of sixty senior Naval officers. He decided that he could perform a similar function with Rob’s book. Multiple donors contributed funding that went toward the purchase of dozens of books. With the books he sent along a personal note to explain why he was sending them and also to specify that the books were not a personal gift (thereby depriving the senior officers the “easy out” of potentially declining the book due to the stipulation against the acceptance of personal gifts over a certain amount of monetary value). Moseley’s message that accompanied the books is included here:

From: LT Moseley, William N, LDO/618, USN, Active Duty

To:

Subj: Information Critical to Repairing Trust in the Military

Encl (1): Library of Congress ISBN: 978-1-5107-7807-8

I am submitting Enclosure (1) with this memorandum as an addendum to previous reports and complaints I and many others submitted to either you directly or one/several of your predecessors within the past three years. This enclosure is not a personal gift to you but rather a publication requesting your review before you share it with a colleague(s) or leave it in your office for your successor’s review and reference. This enclosure serves as a compilation of representative/military leadership mistakes, overt and patently unlawful violations of federal statutory and Constitutional laws. This enclosure also documents multiple servicemember testimonies, stemming from the military’s response to COVID-19, in particular the August 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate. As a senior leader of a service devastated by these actions, it is our and your moral and ethical imperative as well as your duty to read Enclosure (1), and then take all appropriate steps necessary to fully address these issues and to seek out the way forward to both ensure these harms never happen again as well as to start restoring trust between the leaders and the led. Additionally, there are many service-members who have suffered, or continue suffering, from adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccine and it is our duty to ensure we acknowledge this and start the healing process. Servicemembers injured from these unlawful mandates continue to go unnoticed and leaders are quietly medically separating them from service to avoid any modicum of responsibility for causing them harm in the first place. If we ever desire to have a military that is grounded by trust and integrity, then you all need to take responsibility for the role you played in remaining complicit, quiet, and failing to advocate for our most valuable asset, which is our people. The bedrock of integrity rests on the simple fact that once you know your actions are causing harm, legally, morally, and ethically wrong, then you take every action to stop. Instead, our leaders continued forward with these lawless actions or simply try to quietly act as if the past three years never happened. Trust is the key foundation for there to be good order and discipline. Our leaders have completely shattered trust and continue eroding any modicum of trust by failing to address these wrongs. This being said, however, there is time for you to seek atonement and to right these wrongs to set us on a path towards reconciliation and restoration. The choice ultimately is yours and I pray you make the righteous choice for all our sakes.

If additional information is required or questions arise regarding Enclosure (1), I can be reached at [omitted here]

The clearly intended, not-so-subtle message in sending these books to dozens of senior leaders was very clear: you know your actions were unlawful and we know your actions were unlawful.

Throughout August and September, Carolyn Rocco, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, decided to expand upon Billy Moseley's idea. Partially assisted by funding from donors (that now totaled a few thousand dollars toward the purchase of books to be sent to senior leaders), she prepared to mail the books out. She compiled a list of senior leaders within both her own service (the Air Force) and also the Army. She penned a note to accompany the books she sent to senior Air Force leaders. The exact wording of that note is included below:

Sir/Ma’am,

This memo accompanies Library of Congress ISBN-1510778071. Please take a moment to read the enclosed publication. This is not a personal gift, but rather a book explaining the effects the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent Department of Defense policies had on our brothers and sisters in arms. After reading the book, I ask that you share it with a colleague, leave it in your office for your successor, or add it to the command library. I have served honorably for over 19 years, four as an enlisted aircraft maintainer and 15 as an officer, and have never experienced the decline in morale, trust, and readiness that I have seen transpire over the last three years. I, along with thousands of my “wingmen,” community members, family and friends, am concerned about the state of our armed forces. As you read through the publication, please recall our oath of office:

“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

After reading the book, please act with moral courage to uphold our oath of office and existing laws, core values, and the Airmen’s Creed. Adherence to the law and trust in the chain of command are paramount to an effective military.

If you have questions or would like to discuss the enclosed publication, I can be reached at [omitted here]. Thank you for your time and consideration.

C.D. Rocco

In addition to the letter above that she wrote for senior Air Force officers, Carolyn also asked me to provide a note that she could include with the books that would be sent to the offices of senior Army leaders (since I had been an Army officer). I thought that was a great idea and sent her a short letter to include. The exact verbiage from the note I wrote is included below:

Sir/Ma’am,

Your receipt of this letter accompanying the enclosed book Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines by CDR Robert A. Green, Jr. (USN) is due to your status as a current commander or other senior leader within the U.S Army.

This book is not a personal gift for you but rather a resource provided for your command. However, my hope is that you will set the example for your command by reading it first. As a resource, this book is unmatched. In fact, at this critical juncture within the history of our republic and military, no resource is currently more valuable. As our republic teeters on the precipice of destruction, no training or equipment, regardless of its utility, is more valuable than a fundamental understanding of our Constitution.

CDR Green’s book highlights the efforts of those service members who withstood the greatest recent attack our military has faced. These attacks came not from external enemies but from military leaders who violated their oaths to the Constitution, followed and passed unlawful orders, and willingly participated in the deliberate destruction of our military. The enclosed book serves as a testament to those troops who demonstrated the moral courage and patriotic fervor to resist the unlawful orders and cowardly actions of many of you, their leaders, who may be superior in rank but far inferior in integrity. We stand no chance against our enemies abroad if we can no longer trust the leaders within our own military. As a body, you senior leaders within the Army have failed your soldiers and the nation. You are unworthy of the positions you hold. You stand complicit in the physical and moral injury perpetrated on the force that, in turn, has created strategic readiness problems. Americans are rapidly losing faith in the military, and you, collectively, are directly responsible for that loss of faith. Under your watch, the military has come to represent oppression instead of freedom. It has come to signify tyranny rather than liberty. Senior Army officers are now rightly regarded as cowards rather than leaders of character. With this letter, I appeal to any remaining shred of dignity, honor, loyalty to your oath, or love of country that you may still possess. I charge you Army leaders to educate yourselves on the Constitution, inform yourselves of the laws you violated, and understand the plight of better soldiers than yourselves that you purged from the ranks. This book is a great step forward in doing just that. America demands more from you.

Bradley C. Miller

U.S. Army (2003-2022)

Expansion & Exploitation of the Operation

Here, I have only sought to give a small overview of the Book Operation. The operation continues and currently has expanded to include distribution to other nodes of cowardly government bureaucrats; i.e. Congress. This phase is currently ongoing. I have merely attempted to explain to the general public that this is occurring. While the generals and admirals aren't going to draw attention to the fact that they're being called out by people they'd prefer to ignore, we don't have to let them get away with it.

If you're like me, you feel they have engaged in criminal activity. They're responsible for destroying military readiness, thereby weakening the nation’s defense posture. Untold numbers of individuals have been physically injured and some have died as a direct result of these policies that (in my view) were intended to do just that. Moral injury has also presented a real, palpable phenomenon that itself represents a strategic threat to our fighting force.

I don't think it's too much to inform these leaders that we're aware of what they have done and that we're going to require them to answer for it. We're also going to ensure that as many Americans as possible understand the extent to which our military leaders have turned their back on this nation.

Any good operation, particularly in the information space, is only as good as the extent to which the victory can be further exploited. To that end, we need more people to join the call for accountability and to increase the extent to which people understand the nature of the crimes that have been committed.

The great thing about this operation is that it is enduring and anyone can participate. Hand out copies of Rob's books. You can even pre-mark parts of it you want the recipient to focus on. Perhaps there are other materials you'd like to hand out. There are countless articles that have specified the legal problems of the vaccine mandate. Those can be printed out and distributed. In reality, this is simply analogous to sending links to digital material. We all already engage in that nearly everyday.

In addition to sharing information, ask uncomfortable questions to people who should be able to answer those questions. If you still have not contacted your senators and congressman over these issues by this point, you're behind.

And if you have a method of legally contacting any of the senior military leaders who might have received a copy of Rob Green's book through this operation, be sure to ask what they thought of it.

We will be heard!

*Though I refer in this post to individuals by name such as Rob Green, Billy Moseley, and Carolyn Rocco who have directly participated in the Book Operation, all views expressed here in this post are my own with the exception of the thoughts appearing via “block quote” in the wording of the notes penned by Moseley and Rocco that accompanied the books they distributed.