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Ardennes posted:Attempting to influence multiple elections, especially vis a vie Nordstream 2. not sure how that shows anything connected to gladio, but ok
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:US government is so weak they can't even stop their own armed forces from destroying themselves with plague lmao I have to admit that I do get some nerdy pangs of frustration seeing my own country be so bad at this - but we're also the evil empire so I'm glad we're destroying ourselves. I just can't get rid of that "you're doing it wrong" impulse.
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A Bakers Cousin posted:not sure how that shows anything connected to gladio, but ok That is where the 2 comes in.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:we're also the evil empire don’t lump me in with that poo poo!!!
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How are they planning on taking on China with only two carrier groups? https://news.usni.org/category/fleet-tracker Two Carrier Strike Groups and one Amphibious group in theater at the moment. Substantial... but this is China we're talking about here, you're gonna need more than that. And then lol let's saber rattle with Russia too why not. The Truman is in the Med right now and Essex is on Iran duty. Every other carrier in the fleet seems to be drydocked at the moment. So if China manages to get a cheeky AshM or torpedo through the screen and mission-kills/regular-kills a carrier, welp that's half the CSGs in the Pacific right there.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:US government is so weak they can't even stop their own armed forces from destroying themselves with plague lmao yeah none of this will go anywhere. we got so many goddamn shots. often multiple times even with records in hand showing we already got em. all these lawsuits are for show and delay.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:American hyperpower is premised on being able to put out fires everywhere at once. So it's only natural that as soon as there's a real challenge to our dominance by a regional power we're way too overstretched to meet it.
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skooma512 posted:How are they planning on taking on China with only two carrier groups? I'm sure Xi is pissing in his pants with that mighty Amphibious Group aka Okinawa schoolgirl rapists
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I'm pretty sure it's premised on being able to start fires everywhere at once. Oh God no. You want to be starting all the fires one at a time.
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That reminds me of how top brass are all required to clear ranger school these days, which was probably arrived at to solve exactly the problem being quoted there. https://mwi.usma.edu/ranger-school-not-leadership-school/ quote:Consequently, Ranger School is more of a character and leadership assessment than a leadership school. Students do learn whether they can lead (or follow) when tired, hungry, physically on the edge of exhaustion, and pushed to their often previously untested limits—but not necessarily how to do so. So the bottom line is, Ranger school will make you a much better combat soldier and commander at the tactical level - but doesn't really prepare you for anything at the operational level or gives you the leadership skills to be a good operational commander. And because Ranger school is so physically grueling, you have a lot of people dropping out who would have otherwise been good leaders - especially women soldiers who have more difficulty meeting the physical challenges. So by trying to solve the small unit tactics problem in a kind of "send the intellectuals to the fields" method of leadership training, you end up filtering down your pool of recruits for command to a bunch of athletic males whose small unit tactics training won't be any use in a top command position.
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I like this book so far but can you break these up into smaller chunks because it's impossible to read on mobile. Like separate by page and post them one after the other on a separate line so we can enlarge it
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:That reminds me of how top brass are all required to clear ranger school these days, which was probably arrived at to solve exactly the problem being quoted there. Really need all that training for regular activities such as: -Revolving door grifts -Hiding in firebases -Enjoying life in glorified holiday resorts -Droning weddings -Raping girls -Spreading diseases
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HonorableTB posted:I like this book so far but can you break these up into smaller chunks because it's impossible to read on mobile. Like separate by page and post them one after the other on a separate line so we can enlarge it let me know if this works better:     ... 
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That works a lot better, thanks!
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A tangential link to another book I read last year is that the bit about the US committing to Vietnam without a workable plan for logistics paved the way for the military to adopt shipping containers as a standard for transporting freight/cargo, and the port at Cam Ranh Bay became one of the big container-capable ports in Asia, second only to Japan at the time not only did this popularize containerized shipping at a time when adoption was rather slow, but this was also one of the larger examples of privatization creeping into military operations, since the shipping was contracted-out to a private firm
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gradenko_2000 posted:let me know if this works better: Edit: Beaten. In any event, these excerpts are great! Ardlen has issued a correction as of 09:33 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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much appreciated Gradenko btw, what program do you use to read?
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dead gay comedy forums posted:much appreciated Gradenko i use "calibre" for opening ebook files, and my computer just defaults to using Microsoft Edge for PDFs (and in that case I track which page I stopped on, on a piece of paper) calibre is nice because it natively supports highlighting text passages, which makes for very neat annotations
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the way the navy does it now with officers is still pretty bad and reminds me of this lol. then they stack up or out on top of it.
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Gotta get all those fortunate sons their requisite prestige appointments so they can leverage it back home in the private or public sector. Matters way more than effective command; what if you get someone who is good at their job and consequently gets all the glory due to Percival
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https://twitter.com/HiraethResists/status/1479117715558191104?s=20
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now do it with one of those boston dynamics dogs
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keep posting this, it’s really good also lol rip to the cook 
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Polo-Rican posted:healthcare pls those are Royal Marines lol
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Yes, we will lose WWIII. Any fool would know that. Good bye.
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Polo-Rican posted:healthcare pls Nah gently caress that I want a jet pack. I mean I’d prefer to do it without having to canoe an afghani family, but I’m trying to set realistic expectations.
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more from "About Face"      personal note: I read Bernard Fall's "Street Without Joy" in 2018, about a month before I went to visit Vietnam (while in Vietnam itself I bought and read a biography of General Giap). I wasn't aware that Fall's book was published before American involvement in Indochina, but it's quite surprising to me as well because that particular book was basically a telling of America's woes in Vietnam well before they got there, and I imagine it would have helped if more people in their leadership were aware of it.
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Every honest thing you'll read about the vietnam war will have you flabbergasted and that little excerpt is no exception. Holy loving moly the high command was dumb
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I guess the real takeaway is that overwhelming material superiority makes you stupid. The Vietnamese had to exploit every possible homefield advantage they could just to give the Americans a bloody nose, and we couldn't even tell that we were loving up from the sheer destruction we waged on the whole country.
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I love this is what we have instead of healthcare, school textbooks, the ability to feed school kids, just a properly functioning society. Just how much money wasted for this impractical as gently caress thing
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:those are Royal Marines lol Oh lol never mind
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:those are Royal Marines lol NHS pls
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vyelkin posted:NHS pls National Health (Insurance) System
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:That reminds me of how top brass are all required to clear ranger school these days, which was probably arrived at to solve exactly the problem being quoted there. lmao staff officers that should be planning are being forced to do exhausting backbreaking endurance courses?
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