2020/07/04

Link drop July 2020

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Half time of 2020!

We survived.
(That is, unless the zombie apocalypse has already begun.)

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I'm not aware of a single WW2 case of this being applied. I guess that the usual wind conditions are unsuitable for this. I do know of many cases when a successful application would have been decisive

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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/29/politics/trump-phone-calls-national-security-concerns/index.html

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greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com/2015/06/swords-and-sabres-of-ming-dynasty.html

 This is a representative sample of a great website on the Ming Dynasty military.

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weaponsandwarfare.com/

Mitch deserves a link as well. He covers just about everything about warfare on an Osprey book-like level of readability, illustration and ambition. Some day some corporation will ruin him with copyright claims.

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www.duffelblog.com/2020/06/physically-fit-national-guard-impersonator-not-fooling-anybody/

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chuckhillscgblog.net/2020/06/13/saabs-light-weight-torpedo/

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It's still a disappointing performance, but the countries of the EU look rather like functioning societies that can deal with a challenge in comparison to countries that gave power of governance  to lying right wing demagogues.

It's noteworthy that the Hungarian right wing de facto autocrat government did better than other right wing demagogue governments (U.S., UK, Poland, Brazil). They differ in general; they're actual populists (not mere demagogues who only do hatemongering and fearmongering to gain support that  exceeds plutocrats). They try to do popular policies including helping the poor. They're messing up left-right pandemic response performance comparisons whenever the authors don't notice this difference.

Now we have a cesspool of infections in the West. Blocking travel from there is the correct way to handle this.
They need to grow up and choose a different "leader" than a whining man-baby and lying moron.
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2:35

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Door jammer.

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No fucking fighting!

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I mentioned that one of the blog post ideas is a commentary on Sun Tzu's "Art of War".
Now I'd like to call for feedback whether there's any interest in such an effort. I would interpret the sentences, link them to examples and clarify why and when the sentence made/makes sense. Feel invited to signal interest ("+" in comments) or disinterest ("-").

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15 comments:

  1. + Sun Tzu will be interesting to read.

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    2. https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2010/02/sun-tzu-and-cities.html

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  2. Sun Tzu says, when planning to advance archers across swampy ground be sure to feed them a light lunch the day before.

    We need advice like that in these troubled times. Hour 2 of a regional barney against Russia or a proxy when a zero day inside link 16 is activated and a generation of pilots reliant on datalinks become impotent, thats when its going to come down to knowledge about placing spearmen half a rank inside of your skirmishers to allow for a hassle free retreat. /s

    Dont lump us in with england, Scotland has been doing well with covid. 5 days last week with no deaths. We're getting there. Scottish government talking about closing the english border. Already part of a wall there... Maybe Trump wasnt such an idiot after all...

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    1. I hope you touched wood (no, not THAT kind!) when you said that (I'm an NHS Scotland IT guy - sort of).

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  4. Re the air dropped smoke screen, RAF Boston bombers were used for this purpose on at least a few occasions in WW2, for example during the Operation Starkey deception operation against Boulogne in 1943 and D-day. If you do a search on "Boston Bomber smoke screen" you will come up with examples.

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  5. Also apparently used in the Pacific.

    https://www.ww2online.org/image/b-25-mitchell-bomber-flight-over-pacific-ocean-laying-smokescreen-circa-1945-0

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  6. And here: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C19502

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  7. Both are visibly different techniques.
    One looks like ordinary diesel fuel evaporation (~VESS) and the other like smoke pots dropped to the surface and letting rise hot combustion smoke upwards.

    The one I showed here is a chemical agent that drops down and reacts chemically with the water in the air (high himidity due to the sea) to produce the super-neat smoke curtain.

    I do remember that German aircraft were used to add smoke to hide industrial targets in WW2 (ground-based smoke pots alone left many gaps unless they were arranged in a very large diameter circle around the installation).

    It's the quality (shape, density) of the smoke curtain and the small size of the lying aircraft (think of the catapult floatplanes of cruisers) that's remarkable about the Inter War Years video.

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  8. They differ in general; they're actual populists (not mere demagogues who only do hatemongering and fearmongering to gain support that exceeds plutocrats).

    And that is exactly the difference between a true right wing policy and the todays pseudo-right plutocracies. There are not many right wing states today world wide and right wing ideology is is being misused just to enforce the interests of the rich against the nation. Many right wing oriented people does not understand that, that their idealism and believe in the nation is misused and that their gouvernment does not serve the nation but a corrupt plutocratic elite.

    IMO this is one of the main weaknesses of right wing policy, that it is easier misused for the interests of the plutocrats. But plutocraty is strictly against nationalism, it is an ideology against the nation itself.

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  9. It would be ironic if you found yourself in Salford in need of a minibus! :- )

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