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bedpan posted:guy with a machine gun saying "my allegiance is not determined by politics" and a liberal nodding furiously Both are happy to watch people die so long as they get paid.
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Clark Nova posted:a mercenary is simply a neoliberal who doesn’t insist on a layer of abstraction between themselves and the corpses Mercenaries are professional soldiers who have stopped pretending it's about patriotism and now chase the biggest paychecks. Technically it makes them some of the smartest soldiers.
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The world calls for wetwork, and we answered! No greater good. No just cause. Yeah, we were dogs alright.
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KomradeX posted:If were turning them into solely a light infantry force, why do they need their own airforce? Based on the F35B's performance, I assume procuring it was an early part of the strategy to make sure the Marines would only be able to field light infantry
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I am owned a funny shaky cam ejection video.
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stephenthinkpad posted:I am owned 😳
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The Oldest Man posted:Based on the F35B's performance, I assume procuring it was an early part of the strategy to make sure the Marines would only be able to field light infantry "light infantry" is a codeword for "we can't even beat the municipal chinese cops if we tried"
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Palladium posted:"light infantry" is a codeword for "we can't even beat the municipal chinese cops if we tried" People's armed police maybe  Municipal Chinese cops don't have guns because they aren't a police state.
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so is the nypd more or less armed than the marines are now
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Palladium posted:"light infantry" is a codeword for "we can't even beat the municipal chinese cops if we tried" I'll get around to posting more about this, but NATO went through the exact same thing in the 70's - early 80's as they realized they were outmatched by Soviet ground forces, before deciding that technology was their saviour. There were huge doctrinal debates about converting NATO to a light infantry force, without even tanks or fixed wing aircraft.
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Frosted Flake posted:I'll get around to posting more about this, but NATO went through the exact same thing in the 70's - early 80's as they realized they were outmatched by Soviet ground forces, before deciding that technology was their saviour. There were huge doctrinal debates about converting NATO to a light infantry force, without even tanks or fixed wing aircraft. to what purpose? fixating on light infantry seems odd. was the thought that the future was small scale skirmishes and/or nuclear exchange, and anything in between was a waste of money?
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Delta-Wye posted:to what purpose? fixating on light infantry seems odd. was the thought that the future was small scale skirmishes and/or nuclear exchange, and anything in between was a waste of money? light infantry is super cheap which leaves more budget for pure
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Delta-Wye posted:to what purpose? fixating on light infantry seems odd. was the thought that the future was small scale skirmishes and/or nuclear exchange, and anything in between was a waste of money? maybe they wanted to be 100% gladio cells
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Clark Nova posted:maybe they wanted to be 100% gladio cells It was definitely this
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usmc replacing all the artillery with himars is a great way to satisfy both mba brain (less staffing) and mic brain (more money spent) re: light and heavy infantry, what’s the definitions? usmc has a lot of machine guns in a platoon and lots of mortars so I’ve figured it was heavy infantry but I don’t really know the meanings
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Best Friends posted:usmc replacing all the artillery with himars is a great way to satisfy both mba brain (less staffing) and mic brain (more money spent) Heavy infantry is referring to like, a phalanx These days the "other" kind of infantry in the US besides light infantry (guys) would be mechanized (guys in nominally armored vehicles like APCs or IFVs). "Light" these days means your infantry formation is generally not bringing its own organic fighting vehicles or armor, although the US's constant imperial wars and distaste for casualties has meant nominally 'light' formations slowly mutating into formations that have all the logistics footprint of a mechanized unit with none of the up-side except the guys in the truck probably live when a bomb goes off under it.
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gradenko_2000 posted:It was definitely this It was indeed.      - "This ex-colonel had been a general staff officer of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War" - "As a member of the Pommeranian nobility, he was steeped in traditional values." - "to be manned by those old Wehrmacht cadres still fit for service." - "Behind closed doors, Adenauer, the majority of Christian Demo- crat MPs, and von Bonin's colleagues in the rapidly evolving defence establishment were not as concerned about German unity as they stated in public." - "In the eyes of the new elite, the Bonin plan impeded the build-up of heavily armoured forces, necessary to gain a respect- able stand, and bargaining power, in NATO, which West Germany was on the verge of joining." - "A new debate about 'defensive defence' was initiated during the second half of the 1980s on a much smaller scale." - "Other advocates of an alternative defence - most of them retired military men whose contributions appeared during the late 1970s and early 1980s - stuck to the more traditional concept of exclusive orientation towards aggression from the East." - "Loser seems to put more stress on the no target philosophy than on non-provocation. His mobile teams are capable of tactical infiltration which might be perceived as a strategic challenge by the opponent." - "Study Group on Alternative Security Policy (SAS). The former is committed to comp- lementing NATO's present posture by adding 'reactive elements'," - "Only one of their national leaders, Fritz Erler, had no prejudices against the nonconformist Pommeranian nobleman."     - "independent group of organisation specialists, economists, technologists, military tacticians (active officers), public servants and younger politicians." - "German ex-pilot and industrial adviser Norbert Hannig" - "no need for early reaction in times of crisis," Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 06:47 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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light infantry covers everything from airborne infantry (ride in a plane to the fight), mountain infantry, motorized infantry (ride in trucks, jeeps, etc to the fight) and leg infantry (walk to the fight, because you don't have the logistical backbone for POL) in the west we developed an intensely stupid belief in the 'warrior' qualities and elan of light infantry, mostly because everybody knew soviet motor-rifle formations were going to walk right over NATO's relatively pathetic attempts at mechanized infantry so we had to pretend that was fine, light infantry are better anyway generation kill has a subplot throughout in demonstrating this tendency in the us military atelier morgan has issued a correction as of 08:44 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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Frosted Flake posted:It was indeed. fascinating excerpts ("emotional assaults by the majority!"). lol at sdi being reborn under trump and elevated under Biden https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Development_Agency quote:The SDA has mostly avoided flaws that plagued earlier proliferated missile defense programs such as Brilliant Pebbles. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was a major impediment in the past, as these systems were deemed non-compliant with the treaty by Congress.[4] However, George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the treaty in 2002, eliminating this barrier.[14] Over the years, launch and manufacturing costs have been greatly reduced. SDIO research on the DC-X has since led to commercial reusable launch vehicles such as SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.[15] Meanwhile mass manufacturing as with Starlink has proven the potential for lower satellite build costs.[12] I hope Elon Musk is involved in its failure
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I guess the question is how Marines would actually be used, because the US Navy still has a ton of amphibious warfare/support ships in its fleet that need to be maintained and protected. I guess the marines are supposed to land on SCS atolls and hold them without access to heavy equipment? How are they going to be used elsewhere in a peer to peer fight?
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it's really annoying when people drop the article before initialisms -- "SDA will do this," "I will close FDA," etc. instead of saying "the SDA" and so on. I think they just do is because they think it sounds cool. just write like a normal loving person who learned the basics as a child.
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Cuttlefush posted:Stupid bitch thinking English has any hard and fast rules there are different rules for initialisms that can be pronounced as words, gently caress wad!!
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Cuttlefush posted:The NATO will lose ww3 You can't kill the NATO NATO will live on The Soviets tried to kill the NATO But they failed! As they were smite to the ground!
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Ardennes posted:I guess the question is how Marines would actually be used, because the US Navy still has a ton of amphibious warfare/support ships in its fleet that need to be maintained and protected. I guess the marines are supposed to land on SCS atolls and hold them without access to heavy equipment? How are they going to be used elsewhere in a peer to peer fight? those SCS naval mines we are bitching we have no countermeasures for all the time will disappear once things get real, because free market efficiencies
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the cspam really though. if someone says "CIA" or "FBI" instead of "the CIA" or "the FBI" respectively it's because they are or wish they were one of them mawarannahr has issued a correction as of 09:45 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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Ardennes posted:I guess the question is how Marines would actually be used, because the US Navy still has a ton of amphibious warfare/support ships in its fleet that need to be maintained and protected. I guess the marines are supposed to land on SCS atolls and hold them without access to heavy equipment? How are they going to be used elsewhere in a peer to peer fight? I guess as a screening force aka generation kill
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Weka posted:I guess as a screening force aka generation kill It seems like a bit of a waste, to be honest, considering the Marines are still going to have their own budget. Previously, Marines could at least fill in gaps as a "second army" even if it was a bit awkward. I guess the answer is the Marines simply don't have the same pull with the MIC as the Army/Air Force/Navy so they have been made semi-redundant.
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atelier morgan posted:light infantry covers everything from airborne infantry (ride in a plane to the fight), mountain infantry, motorized infantry (ride in trucks, jeeps, etc to the fight) and leg infantry (walk to the fight, because you don't have the logistical backbone for POL) I feel like this happens every 5 years in the Canadian Army and it's exhausting. Australia is the same way, they cut their order for new LAVs to a quarter in their latest defence review. "Acquisition of the Land Combat Vehicle System (Infantry Fighting Vehicle), should be reduced from 450 to 129 vehicles to provide one mechanised battalion". "Acquisition of a second regiment of K9 self-propelled howitzers, should be immediately cancelled."
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