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georgia 2008 is for those who want to really show off afghanistan 2021 is for the ones who remember that the occupation was still going on while all this ww3 was happening
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Tsitsikovas posted:I think its Michael Parenti (could be mistaken) who referred to ww1+2 as the new 30 years war or something like that. Either way its a pretty neat construction and we should consider it for future use. Maybe even due for a new hundred years war ya never know. if you include the cold war, and i would, as well as adjacent wars, i'm game to say ww1 is a new hundread years war that hasn't ended but at a certain point you're stretching the limits of how wars are categorized
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Nobody declares war anymore anyway. Too much red tape. Now everything is a special military operation or limited strike, even if it goes on for years and millions die. You say invasion, I say intervention. You say assassination, I say targeted strike. You say terrorist, I say freedom fighter. The one guy writing the history books uses a LOT of correction fluid.
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hubris.height posted:if you include the cold war, and i would, as well as adjacent wars, i'm game to say ww1 is a new hundread years war that hasn't ended but at a certain point you're stretching the limits of how wars are categorized one framing I like is that October Revolution touched off a war that only ended in August 1991
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The Emu War is eternal and shall trouble our future star colonists as they seek to settle Bernard's Star. Still. A better outcome than those poor souls who ended up on Solstice-5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cntb3wcZdTw
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Another good one is WW1 being the culmination of the French Revolution.
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The Peace of Westphalia was just a temporary ceasefire while we got teams sorted better and we're still doing the Wars of Religion.
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Your history textbook needs a catchy name to mark the transition from colonial empires competition to East/West competition, so the 2 world wars can be combined, but not with the cold war. In the cold war, the North American power went back to allied with the nazi enemies to fight against the central Eurasia power, and won it partly through economical and ideological scams. The cold war should have its own chapter because it has its distincted flavor and very few world conflicts were fought through the lens of ideologies. The next war will mark the transition from a unipolar world to a multipolar world. Depending on the intensity of the proxy wars you can call about the Cold War II, the Warn War, etc, and hopefully not "The NuWar". stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 12:02 on Jan 16, 2024 |
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Future historians will be baffled why Sweden and Finland joined the Anti-Russian alliance right on the verge on the Second Great Northern War.
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Frosted Flake posted:Future historians will be baffled why Sweden and Finland joined the Anti-Russian alliance right on the verge on the Second Great Northern War. Some countries just love collecting Ls. Also see Germany storming into the court room out of breath to declare their support for genocide completely of their own volition.
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Orange Devil posted:Some countries just love collecting Ls. Also see Germany storming into the court room out of breath to declare their support for genocide completely of their own volition. they're winning and they have been wining since 1945 twenty thousand gazans didn't just fall over dead
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stephenthinkpad posted:Your history textbook needs a catchy name to mark the transition from colonial empires competition to East/West competition, so the 2 world wars can be combined, but not with the cold war. In the cold war, the North American power went back to allied with the nazi enemies to fight against the central Eurasia power, and won it partly through economical and ideological scams. The cold war should have its own chapter because it has its distincted flavor and very few world conflicts were fought through the lens of ideologies. I think of 1914–present as the wars of imperialism, or perhaps the industrial wars, but like you said when the era will end with the forthcoming defeat of the US.
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The Oldest Man posted:I get all my military analysis from a guy who is sponsored by "gamersupps," maker of "waifu cups" all the Waifu Cups are sold out so they're doing something right
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https://www.reddit.com/r/gamersupps/comments/ru6xn3/the_problem_with_gamersupps_waifu_cups/ lmfao they slapped the shittiest printed logo possible on a dollar store protein shaker. if you want to actually use the cup you have to put a clear sticker over the logo to protect it like it's a mid-teens smartphone
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SixteenShells posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/gamersupps/comments/ru6xn3/the_problem_with_gamersupps_waifu_cups/ those arent for drinking out of, theyre decorative items for the background of your watertok videos
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The Oldest Man posted:those arent for drinking out of, theyre decorative items for the background of your watertok videos but they sell drink mixes with the cups
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They've decided that it's so difficult to get BAE to make new M777s that the new requirements are for weapons that don't exist (but they'll probably buy ARCHER or CAESAR).  The M109 is lostech so expect this to take up the next five years and cost a billion dollars.
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SixteenShells posted:but they sell drink mixes with the cups skill issue
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Love to see an urgent requirement for loitering weapons (the stuff I can't post directly compares the requirements to Lancets) that don't exist.  The other urgent requirement suggests that they're going to buy 20 SP guns as emergency procurement for the Baltic, without any plans, or intention, to bring them home. Which is how we ended up with dozens of desert painted MRAPs we had no use for. Finally, "a decision has not yet been made with respect to how or where the M777 would be redistributed", since this is the Baltic battlegroup, means "Ukraine". Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 20:46 on Jan 16, 2024 |
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BAE and Waifu Cups are on same level of grift.
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stephenthinkpad posted:BAE and Waifu Cups are on same level of grift. People buying waifu cups know that they're buying useless garbage because it makes them feel horny.
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stephenthinkpad posted:BAE and Waifu Cups are on same level of grift. Lostconfused posted:People buying waifu cups know that they're buying useless garbage because it makes them feel horny. yeah thats what he said
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Lostconfused posted:People buying military equipment know that they're buying useless garbage because it makes them feel horny. yeah, it tracks
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poisonpill posted:yeah, it tracks Well I wish they didn't put it to the institutional Artillery to waste our time drawing up doctrine and requirements, just to gently caress around.
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cat botherer posted:China has developed this MHD generator that uses h2-o2 explosions to generate pulsed power that at least would solve the “shitload of capacitors” problem. Guys I have a revolutionary idea. What if we could cut out the middleman and launch the projectile with the force of the explosion itself? (Granted, that doesn't give you much ability to adjust the force so maybe this isnt completely useless?)
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gradenko_2000 posted:War 2.0 In the metaverse.
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orly posted:Guys I have a revolutionary idea. What if we could cut out the middleman and launch the projectile with the force of the explosion itself? What if instead of wasting all this fuel on a turbine that has to not only make the plane go forward but also turn a compressor to compress air for itself (???) and has to provide electric power for a plane; we instead did something else. Maybe we could use a propeller in order to propel the plane? Research into new technologies is great and we don't know which ones will turn out to work well ahead of time. BearsBearsBears has issued a correction as of 23:42 on Jan 16, 2024 |
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Tsitsikovas posted:I think its Michael Parenti (could be mistaken) who referred to ww1+2 as the new 30 years war or something like that. Either way its a pretty neat construction and we should consider it for future use. Maybe even due for a new hundred years war ya never know. pretty sure that was Churchill.
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BearsBearsBears posted:What if instead of wasting all this fuel on a turbine that has to not only make the plane go forward but also turn a compressor to compress air for itself (???) and has to provide electric power for a plane; we instead did something else. Maybe we could use a propeller in order to propel the plane? This doesn’t really track because you’re describing either a turboprop or turbofan by accident, both of which are better than turbojets for most (nearly all iirc) applications.
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stephenthinkpad posted:BAE and Waifu Cups are on same level of grift. Fact Check: FALSE While BAE weapons and Waifu Cups have much in common- high margins, tax breaks, legislatures' support; only Waifu Cups undergo rigorous testing up to today's military standards.
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Frosted Flake posted:They've decided that it's so difficult to get BAE to make new M777s that the new requirements are for weapons that don't exist (but they'll probably buy ARCHER or CAESAR). The lack of planning in Canada is seemingly on par with Australia. Planning and procurement on the run, whoops actually we bought yet another lemon for top dollar and it doesn't work. In your case giving away stuff you can't easily replace. Still I suppose it's a safe part of the world unless the USA goes unstable and gets grabby when it doesn't need to.
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DancingShade posted:The lack of planning in Canada is seemingly on par with Australia. Planning and procurement on the run, whoops actually we bought yet another lemon for top dollar and it doesn't work. In your case giving away stuff you can't easily replace. Still I suppose it's a safe part of the world unless the USA goes unstable and gets grabby when it doesn't need to. We're holding off on annexing Canada until China cashes in all of its bond holdings.
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Bold to assume the US has more than 48 hours of front line munitions at this point.
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Nothus posted:Bold to assume the US has more than 48 hours of front line munitions at this point. this is why is an excellent idea to fight an unwinnable war of attrition against yemen right now
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Frosted Flake posted:This doesn’t really track because you’re describing either a turboprop or turbofan by accident, both of which are better than turbojets for most (nearly all iirc) applications. I knew after I posted that somebody was going to call me out on mixing a propulsion method with a method of generation power. I should have said something about using explosion to drive a propeller directly vs using combustion to drive a turbine and then having that turbine drive a driveshaft and having it run both a compressor and a propeller/fan. The point is that turbines are great.
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