2024/04/04
Russian vulnerabilities (I): Air defences
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. The Russian air defences face a double problem; they are stretched thin and they don't get sufficient support by the flying air force,...
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2024/03/29
Mobilisation Part IV: Industry
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. I studied warfare for a very long time, and it's self-evident to me how much of an industrial effort both world wars, the Korean War ...
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2024/03/22
The Russian tactical nuclear threat card was spent
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. I believe that the ability to end a RUS-NATO war with a RUS threat of using 'tactical' nukes against attempts of reconquest (and ...
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2024/03/13
Mobilisation Part III: Personnel
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. Major wars usually show the very same thing; insufficient (quantity) training of reserve leaders pre-war leads to too short training of le...
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2024/03/11
A Ukrainian merchant raider
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. Warships are peculiar; you do not need to commission them in a port. Prize ships were commissioned as warships at sea during both World W...
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2024/03/04
Mobilisation Part II: "Escalatory"
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. " Escalatory " This word has been used a lot recently, typically by people who oppose aiding Ukraine to defend itself against t...
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2024/03/02
Mobilisation Part I: The need to counter arms buildups
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. The French were keen to reconquer Alsace-Lothringia after 1871. They conscripted to the maximum (about 75% of young men were deemed fit a...
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2024/02/06
"Evolving" transitory tech: FPV drones & electronic warfare
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. Back in the 1930's the Nazi government of Germany sent troops and vehicles to assist Franco's Nationalist-Fascist coup (later civ...
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2024/01/28
Do the British carriers make sense?
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. The article "Floating mausoleums to political vanity: Our two new aircraft carriers cost almost £8 billion to build but, with the Mi...
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2024/01/27
The victim card was played too brazenly
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. It appears that playing the victim card to get a carte blanche to commit offences yourself doesn't work so well for Israel any more. ...
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