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Kemper Boyd posted:At least in the late 15th century, London guild members were expected to own weapons and armor and fight if necessary. That's of course a different sort of thing, and anything goes on Bad Cav Island.
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HEY GUNS posted:city militia or real-life army? the symbolic association with each is p different City militia at that time.
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Trin Tragula posted:So did you guys hear about the people who sold everything to sail the world but made absolutely no preparation before buying their ridiculously overpriced boat??? (Something about Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic being able to use the clapped out Terra Nova only because Scott registered it as a yacht) Will it have jet fighters someday
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Nebakenezzer posted:Will it have jet fighters someday I'm not sure if that's a yes or no.
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Comrade Gorbash posted:It's slated to carry a complement of F-35Bs. oh no
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HEY GUNS posted:no dice--you get kicked out of most guilds if you enlist. At least according to some article i read. In the ECW Parliament had a recruitment scheme with apprentices. They get to serve as soldiers, with a salary, with time served being deducted from their apprenticeships, while the masters got reimbursed for lost labour. Of course the wars dragged on and on, and it hosed the guild system up good and proper if memory serves.
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Cessna posted:Wasn't the A-5 Vigilante's schtick? The Vigilante had this weird hosed up bomb bay where it flung the nuke out the back along with all its extra fuel tanks. I'm not sure what the typical attack profile was supposed to look like but it doesn't sound like you could toss bomb with it.
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Mr Enderby posted:In the ECW Parliament had a recruitment scheme with apprentices. They get to serve as soldiers, with a salary, with time served being deducted from their apprenticeships, while the masters got reimbursed for lost labour. Of course the wars dragged on and on, and it hosed the guild system up good and proper if memory serves. if memory serves, however, english guilds aren't as brain weird as german ones
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feedmegin posted:Sure, I guess. My main point is there is no way one single plane can be misinterpreted as a strategic attack. 16 1.2 megaton B83s will level Moscow without blinking an eye. Hell, one B83 will turn most of the city's population in to casualties. When you talk about nuclear weapons everything changes. It's a lot more about signaling intent to the other party because the stakes are so loving high. Part of that is using systems that clearly signal intent. Part of that is clearly defining your nuclear doctrine and posture. Part of that is understanding your adversary's clearly defined doctrine. If the US, counter to doctrine, used freefall bombs from a single bomber as tactical nuclear weapons, why would the Russians interpret such a strike as a tactical strike when a) the delivery system is strategic and b) that use would contravene the constantly stated US nuclear use doctrine?
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Nuclear escalatory de-escalation isn't a real thing, there was like one article working through the logic in a Soviet journal and people have been jumping on it ever since. What Russia practises is Escalation dominance, the idea that at any stage in a conflict they can threaten to escalate a step further than you are willing to go (and there are a huge number of intermediate steps between 'someone accidentally shot down a plane' and 'all out nuclear war').
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Right, and I think that while escalation dominance has some place before you get to nuclear weapons, after that NATO/US doctrine is clearly "a nuke goes off and we're gonna loving push the buttons all at the same time whether it's an airfield in Pomerania or Washington, D.C." - of course this is only an effective deterrent if your enemy finds it credible.
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Alchenar posted:Nuclear escalatory de-escalation isn't a real thing, there was like one article working through the logic in a Soviet journal and people have been jumping on it ever since.
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Comrade Gorbash posted:It's slated to carry a complement of F-35Bs. Note: A portion of the F-35s will be Marine ones flown by Marine pilots because the British can't afford to buy enough jets.
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Can we just stop pretending it's 1930 and we're still a world power
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C.M. Kruger posted:Note: A portion of the F-35s will be Marine ones flown by Marine pilots because the British can't afford to buy enough jets. Ironically they could buy enough jets if they ended austerity this is how stupid austerity is KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:16 1.2 megaton B83s will level Moscow without blinking an eye. Hell, one B83 will turn most of the city's population in to casualties. Really, the big boys of the nuclear arms race have benifitted - a lot - from the nuclear taboo. This is why talk - from Russia and the US - about breaking the taboo is really dumb, and probably imperiling their own security more than other nations.
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Gort posted:Can we just stop pretending it's 1930 and we're still a world power   Apparently not Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Feb 12, 2018 |
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HEY GUNS posted:city militia or real-life army? the symbolic association with each is p different If you mean the London Trained Bands those guys became part of Parliament's regular army right from the start, London being the base of Parliamentary support. I wonder if it's a different deal given the whole of Parliament's forces were pretty much an insurrection against the traditional government.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Really, the big boys of the nuclear arms race have benifitted - a lot - from the nuclear taboo. This is why talk - from Russia and the US - about breaking the taboo is really dumb, and probably imperiling their own security more than other nations. don't know if it benefits the big boys of the nuclear arms race more than say, living human beings as a broad category
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Nebakenezzer posted:Ironically they could buy enough jets if they ended austerity It's worth noting almost every "can't afford" in british politics is actually "unwilling to pay for, because of an ideological opposition to the idea of a state", yeah.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Right, and I think that while escalation dominance has some place before you get to nuclear weapons, after that NATO/US doctrine is clearly "a nuke goes off and we're gonna loving push the buttons all at the same time whether it's an airfield in Pomerania or Washington, D.C." - of course this is only an effective deterrent if your enemy finds it credible. This isn't NATO/US doctrine.
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Gort posted:Can we just stop pretending it's 1930 and we're still a world power But we started burning out as a world power after the 1st World War, It's a tradition at this point!
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for the love of god someone tell me this really happened http://redmensch.tumblr.com/post/170311049091
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13th KRRC War Diary, 11th Feb 1918 posted:Working Parties as for the 5th. Parties started off at 8 am and the afternoon parties at 2-30 pm. 13th KRRC War Diary, 12th Feb 1918 posted:Sgt. Hunt was presented with the Belgian CROIX DE GUERRE by a Belgian General at ABEELE. Working Parties as usual.
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Alchenar posted:This isn't NATO/US doctrine. The exact phrases the policy uses are "intolerable costs" or "intolerable consequences". The nature of the opponent defines exactly how many buttons need to be pushed in order to inflict said intolerable costs/consequences, but the policy is pretty clear that if you've done something bad enough to require the use of nuclear weapons that you're getting hammered.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:for the love of god someone tell me this really happened I don’t have a tumblr, and it’s locked for those who don’t.
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Kid in the middle: this photo is one of the last appearances of a gesture that dates from the 16th century, which Joaneath Spicer called "the Renaissance Elbow." It connotes youth and military prowess, and is now gone. I wonder if the people from whom these children picked it up were fully aware of what it meant? It's associated with mercenary soldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, or with socially powerful young men (such as the upper-middle-class members of Dutch civic militias) attempting to ape them. Google "Renaissance Elbow" and you'll find the article online, it owns. An even later example is this photo of a band called the Sha Na Na  Gestures have a history. They have a beginning, and this one had an end. Four hundred years. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Feb 13, 2018 |
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VanSandman posted:I don’t have a tumblr, and it’s locked for those who don’t. "i love reading about the utopian impulse in the early soviet union because there’s so much funny poo poo, but my favorite might be the people calling for the resurrection of all dead people to aid in the building of socialism" did somebody really call for resurrecting the dead for communism
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:don't know if it benefits the big boys of the nuclear arms race more than say, living human beings as a broad category also true
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Ainsley McTree posted:Is this a parallel universe John Oliver they don't even look similar beyond both being white british dudes?
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:they don't even look similar beyond both being white british dudes? I'm not gonna fight about this
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:they don't even look similar beyond both being white british dudes? that does narrow the genetic playing field quite a lot. white british people have like one of those character creation screens in a CRPG where there's only 8 different noses, eyebrows, hairstyles, etc that you can choose from.
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:that does narrow the genetic playing field quite a lot. listen, buddy,
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:oi, guvna no comprendo Jamwad Hilder posted:British people are just NPCs for our brave American heros to kill in the beginner area rofl Rodrigo Diaz fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Feb 13, 2018 |
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Why wouldn't you pull up, rotate 180 degrees, release, then inverted half-loop and continue flying in the same direction you originally were? Pull up into a loop, you lose energy pulling up. Continue the loop, you regain energy on the downward arc. What you're doing is essentially flying the upward portion of a loop twice. You pull up and lose energy, now you rotate 180 degrees, and pull up again, leaving you flying in the same direction you were originally heading. You're losing a lot of energy and aren't getting anywhere near as far away before the bomb blows. At least if I'm reading you correctly.
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:white british people have like one of those character creation screens in a CRPG where there's only 8 different noses, eyebrows, hairstyles, etc that you can choose from. wait, ew
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Jamwad Hilder posted:British people are just NPCs for our brave American heros to kill in the beginner area I used to be a superpower like you, until I took two world wars in the knee
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