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Concur and it will be see how the Orcs respond. Combined arms is a multiplier on the battlefield and something the Russian do very poorly, it at all. It looks like a deal is almost done to get them more funding which will make the spring very interesting.
The thing is the Russians are following their doctrine for the purpose of the way they wrote it to match equipment and recent fights.
They leveraged IFVs and put bigger guns on BTRs on purpose to fight mounted with little Infantry both to achieve shock value of action because of speed mounted vs dismounted and to make up the value of having a conscript heavy force. They’ve never thought they would need it because they were supposed to follow the principle of annihilation fires followed by maneuver to the objective. It worked against Syrians for the last decade so they embraced it into their system because “this is way better than Chechnya!”
They’re also learning the hard way that the battalion tactical group also worked great…… in Syria… and it has no place in LSCO because it lacks the ass to achieve and exploit the offense. We already figured that out and have been working away from it for the last ten years.
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Far from emotionally attached. It sucks for the dudes over there. One is defending their country (despite how you feel about it) and the other is in a supposedly modern battle tank by itself not using any modern tactics getting thrown into the front with no support or training and it shows.
Compare that to recent videos of Ukrainian combat footage using platoon and company sized Armored elements in effective combined arms maneuver because we’ve been training them. The Uke’s didn’t start the war capable of that across much of their formations. Mostly individual armored vehicles as supporting assault guns or ambush. Maybe you’d see a platoon but their movement was uncoordinated and sequencing was staggered so like a series of individual punches and not the synchronized sledgehammer that Armor and combined mech infantry functions as when used effectively.
They are growing as a force, and use of western Tanks and IFVs is allowing survivability and carrying lessons to the next fight of the trained soldiers. That’s not something the Russians are getting.
They are still Fires centric where we model off maneuver and I doubt that will ever change for them either culturally or looking at economy of force.
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In Soviet Russia Operation Secure’s you!
Beers for the guys at Raytheon.
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Nick Saban Retiring
In what amounts to perhaps one of the most seismic of shifts in the college football landscape in recent memory....Nick Saban retiring at Bama.
While I can’t stand the man, nor the throngs of people anxiously waiting with lotion soaked hands too cup his balls throughout the state of Alabama….
I respect the fact he waited until after the Championship was over to announce this and it make it about him after Alabama was out.
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Makes you wonder about the competence of a person that can be missing without informing his boss and nobody seems to care.
How about the fact there are active hostilities going on involving our deployed troops as well as the Russo-Ukrainian war and yet the SECDEF can go a week without talking to the boss.
Guess we know which cabinet members don’t mean that much.
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Aren't dirndls Bavarian, and Bavarians aren't German?
Bavaria is essentially Germany’s Texas…
And if you’ve ever been to Middle Franconia (Rothanburg/Ansbach/etc) within it, that’s essentially Germany’s College Station.
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Priority of our DoD
In for a shock when they separate us by sex at the POW work camp.
It’ll almost be worth losing the next fight if I can’t watch this ass find out nobody cares what his pronouns and they will beat you the same way they hit the other men.
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IMO that game was more of an indictment of their fanbase for running Kyle McCord out of town and probably robbing their future as well by putting Lincoln Kienholz in an impossible situation. Now the true freshman goes out and lays an egg in his first start and everyone now calls for him to get benched and get a replacement via the portal. Same vicious cycle will continue and hollow out a blue blood program.
I think thanks to the transfer portal nightmare you’ll see more of this. They effectively lost the top quarter of their roster between regular and bowl season. You’re not even coaching the same team at that point. Now the 12 team playoff system may help stave off some of that effect for the perennial playoff teams out there, but with a system of top 4 or bust, there is almost no incentive for players who can make cash not to opt to transfer over playing a nobody cares bowl.
And I’m with you on McCord. He throws a pick and his career is over in some peoples eyes. Meanwhile Brown who is the running back that throws is supposed to be a savior but at this point it’s obvious his talent isn’t going to overcome some injuries that are becoming hard to ignore. Without him and with a 3rd string quarter back who had no confidence or aim all Mizos had to do was continuously rush 7 on defense and wait for OSU to wear out theirs. It took all of 4 quarters for them to get on the board but they were effectively only playing against a defense at that point.
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It is a fairly reliable claim. Very early on there was at least talk of a negotiated truce before everything got really ugly. Whether or not that ever would have happened is speculation we will never know.
We were trying to extract the legitimate government of Ukraine with use of non conventional assets and they refused to come out in the opening hours of this war.
What exactly is legitimate that Ukraine was seeking a negotiated peace while Russia was driving on Kiev from Hostamel’s failed air assault and the Belarus convoy and somehow we convinced them to just keep rolling the dice?
This sounds like more of the same bullshit blame the “western globalist,” nonsense he’s been pushing this whole thread. Somehow this is “our fault” for this war and not acknowledging Putin for exactly the threat he is.
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Ryan Day probably should find new work.
You very obviously didn’t watch that game.
Ohio State showed up with literally no offensive starters but 2 guys (one injured) from the season and lost their Quarter Back on the second drive. The defense held Missouri to literally no first downs until the second half.
That game was awful to watch but to somehow act like its validation of OSU being a bad team or Day being a bad coach is a joke.
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You know there is still a South Korea, right?
You have the most curiously simplistic view I've seen in a long time. That's not to say the argument against Ukraine aid is necessarily simplistic. It's mostly just you.
There’s also the intangible side of the cost argument.
Full rage Conflicts are actually a culmination of late stage Foreign Policy. The fact we are living in the longest continuous period of human prosperity built largely on the western globalist system is proof of greater total success than simply counting up Korea, Vietnam, and GWOT and dismissing every action of foreign policy as folly.
Same is true of the argument for dollar figures and limits to them on Ukrainian aid. Go look at the intelligence we got out of Israel during its proxy conflicts with our super power adversary. “Have Donut” just for example led directly to a massive shift in fighter tactics in the Navy and Air Force that had direct effect on the battlefield. Our electronic warfare programs which were foundational in our air playbook in GWI were tested and developed largely using those same regional conflicts and lessons preserved in the vault for an “on the day” event with the Soviet Bear.
Same situation is happening right now in Ukraine. We validated billions of dollars in equipment investment just in HIMARs alone through its demonstrated performance it’s not just a guess now. We also learned a hell of a lot of “oh we better fix that right now” situations since we started supporting the Ukrainians in 2014. And when we are sending weapons largely at the end of their useful shelf life (example: M26 and ATACMs) what is the acceptable cost worth in number of exploitative efforts by the intel community? And how much deterrence in Russia and the wider sphere of everybody using their kit or the massive investment in our own by Allie’s do you think this conflict has bought? What’s a dollar figure on that?
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https://www.newsweek.com/biden-warns-us-military-may-get-pulled-direct-conflict-russia-1856613
THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WARNING ABOUT ALL ALONG
Well you either didn’t read the article, or you’ve completely reversed yourself to the point most of us have been making.
That point being. that it’s far safer for all of us to see Russia culminate in depletion of its capability in Ukraine rather than get froggy and try for the Baltics next.
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Could be that we’ve wised up and stopped announcing new weapons/capes beforehand and are letting the Russkies figure it out the old fashioned way.
Oh we’ve been announcing plenty of things…
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/delta-system-has-proven-its-compatibility-with-link-16/
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/patriot-missiles-nato-and-ukraine-tactical-weapons-with-strategic-impacts/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/09/ukraine-himars-rocket-artillery-russia/
The bigger point is a lot of people in our own country are disinterested in hearing it and buying into narratives that say Ukraine can’t win and we should just let the Russians have it.
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Are any of these Russian AF losses (the recent Su-30, 35) attributed to any publicly acknowledged system?
Related question, have the Ukrainians gained a BVR capability? IIRC they were mentioned in a YouTube video on the state of the air war in Ukraine as not having one and hence at a big disadvantage vs the Russians, I think it was Bronk on Carroll’s channel.
Not trolling from a cubicle in Moscow but if anyone can say inquiring minds would like to know
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You know how the Russians bill their IADS construct as more the total sum of the whole vs the sum of its parts? Big telephone pole systems in the support zone acting as arsenal sinks to throw arrows at a wide array of data linked sensors in the battle and disruptions zones and from the ground achieve true airspace denial?….
Well ours do that too… it’s just NATO thought it out further in making sure the systems actually did it instead of just print it on a pamphlet to be later handed out by strippers at an arms bazaar.
I don’t know what you guys are getting all excited about though, this is clearly all fake news spread by the western political arm of media disinformation. Remember the Ukrainians are wholesale losing this war… Vlad said so.
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You can’t be serious? The only power the government has is force at the ultimate barrel of a gun. Have you ever heard of a “victimless crime”? Let me know if you need just a few examples.
The government is the consensus of votes of the masses thereby granting it power to conduct its actions at the consent of its citizens.
The fact it can jail/kill an individual doesn’t change that.
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So send people off to die against their will…sounds like so much freedom and liberty. If enough people won’t voluntarily fight for something they believe in, then it’s not worth it. This is the litmus test…vs just voting for the government to force your neighbors at the barrel of a gun to go to war.
You’ve got it twisted into something it’s not. We don’t, “vote for a government to force” anything.
The entire purpose of a representative constitutional democracy is that the consent of the governed provides the government with its mandate to action. We do that because simply having a vote over every decision whether small or big would be impossible both in theory and in practice. A representative democracy means send forward your desires in the form of your elected officials and let them come to consensus with all the other citizens reps who did same.
You can aspire to the lofty goal of perfect utopian liberty but it’s not reality anymore than shouting “I should be allowed to drive as fast as I want” or “if I were truly free I could walk around nude next to this elementary school.” Those aren’t constitutionally enshrined rights being trampled by some authoritarian society, they are agreements by society through their representatives in the legislature that you can neither drive like you stole it or walk around with your dick out. Selective service is the same the stakes are just higher. As I said earlier if you disagree with that your option of conscription as an option to your government your options are either grass roots change through representative influence in congress or a popular uprising. Either way until one of those two occurs the selective service and draft have long been constitutionally upheld.
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This is why libertarianism is ultimately a failed ideology. Honestly I put it into the same category as communism. Romanticized ideals of how the world should be, that never survive contact with real societies.
I always like that one “taxation is theft” guy 5 beers in on TDY….
Like bro… where do you think this Per Diem came from?
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Of course. But the perception is a mother er
Story of this damn war apparently…
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Unless the elections are cancelled.....
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-birthday-grenade-b1b82e4f84eb5a39286d1500cf49fcd1
Which would seem weird if not for the fact it’s permitted under their law in time of Martial Law/War.
That then opens up option 2 for popular referendum/revolution but the polling is showing something in the 70-80% of Ukrainians being against holding an election with a large portion of their population unable to participate. So that’s not likely to materialize either.
The political pressure in Zelenskyy to hold an election and potentially change the course of the war effort isn’t coming from Ukraine. It’s coming from people on our side of the Atlantic choosing to use it as a justification to end funding they’ve called to end before any announcement was made.
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Oh man…some of the most dangerous words I’ve heard or read. This means that my liberty and freedom only exist to what elected officials allow me to have…since they were voted in.
No it means when somebody is screaming that Ukrainians don’t have the will to fight because of conscription it ignores the fact they like us have a representative democratic process.
If conscription was so out of line with the will of the represented it would result in 1 of 2 options; vote out those reps in a referendum (again the ballot box) or have a revolution.
Since none have occurred the portrayal as Ukrainians being unwilling to fight because people are being jailed or running away in refusal is misrepresenting the facts.
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If not enough people voluntarily wanted to fight the Nazis, then no, to them it wasn’t worth it. You either have enough volunteers under the terms of an agreement (ie an enlistment) or you don’t. You can use whatever emotional arguments you want, but either you believe in personal freedom to go/not to go a war if asked, or you don’t believe in it. If freedom and liberty and can be suspended then you were never actually free. Don’t forget, democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Your freedom and liberty to choose is at the ballot box. Same as it is for the Ukrainians. If you don’t want a draft than elect people to put it into law that you will never use one. We are and have been for several decades and “all volunteer force” just ignore things like stop loss or refusing to grant retirements and so forth. If the political sway is such that something as unpopular as a draft can happen without the immediate loss of those reps that enacted it surviving with their seat intact guess what, that’s consensus and by definition consent of the governed.
We participate in a society of voices and opinions with general consensus being the path forward. Saying “you can’t make me fight” when we have laws stating yes we can which were enacted by elected representatives is no different than the liberal hissyfits of “he’s not my president” when Trump or Bush were elected.
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Conveniently you also left off the forced conscription for fighting in Korea and Vietnam. But to your direct point about WW2, yes, I’m also against conscription if we found ourselves in another world war. You are truly not free if you are told to pick up a gun and go to war, and if you won’t, the government will criminalize you for it. If a country is worth fighting for, then you’ll have enough people voluntarily willing to fight for it.
It wasn’t “worth fighting for” against the Nazis by your standard. If it had been we wouldn’t have needed 2/3 of our military to be forced into uniform while the rest of our population was told no there won’t be a new model of Chevrolet this year, we’re making M5 tanks though if you’re interested in driving one. And while it’s a popular myth, most of the people that served in the wartime position of Vietnam weren’t draftees. Draftees were bulk used to maintain commitments abroad. Only a quarter ever went to South East Asia as a theatre, roughly a third of that number served in support capacities in places like Thailand on the periphery.
Now I’ve got no doubt when actual Nazis started hitting our cities directly there would be a realization by plenty that something needed to be done and the time to act was now, but that’s far to late to build a military out of which is something a short range problem focused populace will never be capable of understanding. That’s why we started drafting people in 1940 before a single bomb was dropped on our soil. The powers that be were smart enough to read the tea leaves.
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If the Ukrainians were willing to die for their country then you wouldn’t need forced conscription. And this goes for any country in a similar situation. This is the exact opposite of freedom by the way.
We had forced conscription in both world wars to meet the ever churning requirement for manpower. We also did deferments of people who wanted to serve but were judged to be to vital in position and told no they couldn’t serve. Nobody would argue about the righteousness of our cause in the Second World War, yet it took 2/3 of our military being drafted to meet the requirements of it. By the beginning of 1945 there was a real discussion at the White House/Chief of staff levels on how we were going to apportion and release vs not release the ETO troops. The decision was those that “done enough” could go, those that hadn’t would serve as the veterans and the units would be backfilled with new inductees because of the manpower requirements that taking and occupying Japan would have required. Remember this is after we fought for Saipan and started seeing the suicidal side of Japanese resolve. The points episode of BOBs barely scratched this topic, same as Flags of our Fathers talked about war fatigue in funding and a desire by many to make terms with the Japanese.
Ukraine is not in a unique situation, it’s a reality of any nation caught in an existential struggle for its existence managing the total economic and manpower of its nation to grant it the means to continue the war.
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Coast guard for the win. Especially for helos. They have some nice toys.
You could eat off of their hanger floors.
Does anybody know if they got a long term sustainment contract with Leonardo? I know the Spartans USASOC had were basically living in borrowed time because they wouldn’t allow on demand buys for upgrades and replacements. Italians wanted a long term gravy train or nada.
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Russian Ukraine shenanigans
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The longest continual span of human prosperity in recorded modern history?
You know we doubled the average human lifespan since WWII right?
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