"The Iraq War was a horrible mistake and Donald Trump was right to oppose it and forever wars are bad but also nothing came out of it and there was no reason to oppose it."
Did I capture the vibe?
Has anyone been more wrong and yet still refuses to admit it?
Admittedly, there's a great film concept out there to be made that will begin with "Oceans are now soccer fields."
This is the same guy who was quoting Napoleon earlier, and I gotta tell ya, I won't be at all surprised when three days from now bro is posting "military dictatorship isn't so bad, actually!"
At least that'd be faithful to the legacy of the French Revolution.
Yo is that my boy Jobs Economy???
>Trump interested in ground war in Iran
I'm sure there's a carve out for "self defense."
You might say
It's gone overboard
But have you considered
That other bad things exist and therefore it doesn't matter?
/Smokes pipe smugly
Dang, blurry vision AND insomnia? You know, at Vietnam Draft boards, they called that combo "The Deadly 2." Over ten million young men were exempted from war for it!
Pic unrelated.
The U.S. Army abruptly canceled a major training exercise for the 82nd Airborne Divisionβs headquarters element, fueling speculation within the Pentagon that the unitβs rapid-response force could be deployed to the Middle East, potentially including ground operations.-WaPo
The current 9000 IQ guys in office think they're hacking law by just not calling things what they are
I... I have questions.
"Guys, you do not understand, if we don't fight China, we face an imminent threat--"
"Isn't that what people like you said before you fried an Iranian elementary school?"
And I'll have to just sit there and seethe. Because they'll be right.
I dread the IO implications of this current conflict. I've spent a lot of my adult life grappling with "How do I convince the American public that DoD is pursing vital strategy-- potentially at great cost in blood and treasure?"
Now, the actual people that run the DoD started a war on vibes.
Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Wonβt Published: March 26, 2003
Zoom juice is about to get exponsive, that makes cars sad. Cars love zoom juice, and americans love cars
If you don't have to buy even the cheapest option (TELs) and instead can basically just buy long-range strike munitions that are self-contained, that is a worthy capability! But it doesn't mean it's better than other LRS options, it's just more available.
Ukraine has shown there's a lot of utility in one-way attack, especially when packaged with excellent targeting... but nothing I've read makes me think it's changed the existing dynamics of long-range strike. I do think it's meant more organizations can get long-range strike at scale.
And this is the crossover with "Are people learning from Ukraine?"
The Shahed's most common role there is killing Ukrainian non-combatants. Its most valuable is eating up interceptors so more capable stuff can get through. The Ukrainians regularly post 90% intercept rates.
It's not clear to me these are a huge threat beyond "Our intercept rates aren't what we'd like."
From publicly available information, we're not seeing airbases rendered useless or massive loss of life.
The number of weapons launched vs. effects we can easily see is not favorable to Iran.
I disagree. In a wargaming capacity, I've heard about lessons from Ukraine at combatant command level wargames, from Ukrainian exchange officers at ACSC, and there's a lot of writing on it, such as the army's Troika newsletter (3x weekly e-mails for .mil addresses, plus publications).
There's a lot of people paying attention to the war in Ukraine.
The Army's Troika publishes a three times a week OSINT roll-up for anyone with a .mil e-mail address, and more detailed learning such as this: api.army.mil/e2/c/downloa...
Do they cover a lot of Law of Armed Conflict in Kojak?
U.S. intelligence sees no signs of uprisings or internal splits in Iran.-WaPo
Man, military-centric AI and Drone discourse in the same day?
Fucking cursed timeline.
The "Aaaah Killer Robots!!!!" people have somehow managed to out-ignorance the gizmo cult
Azerbaijan under attack?
Post Azeri hype.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSh5...
All of the big protests over Israel stopped as soon as Trump got in office and never started again even after he bombed Iran twice in cooperation with them.
This is plainly visible to anyone with fucking eyes but you'll still get yelled at for saying it.
Jobs has this I think. People like to say "nobody cares about Jobs anymore" but I think they do! Jobs is still leading "most popular Senator" on AO3.
