tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post4154864970899187988..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: "I told you so!"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-16764145424822127202016-08-12T01:18:13.525+02:002016-08-12T01:18:13.525+02:00"The similarities between 1933 Germany and to..."The similarities between 1933 Germany and today's Russia are striking."<br /><br />Agree completely, good article. The situation is more dangerous than many realize. And as bad as they are, the bad military habits you detailed aren't even the worst thing - the worst thing is the complete demoralization of the remaining few patriotic elements in Europe and specifically Germany due to desastrous internal policies. <br /><br />Should war come, should the draft get activated (as it surely would after a few weeks of high-intensity conflict), who would answer to the call?<br /><br />Leftists? SJW millenials? Immigrants? Of course not. And we remaining patriots sure as hell won't sacrifice ourselves for Brussels and Washington.Butwürgernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-16180373559062399392016-07-24T20:52:42.134+02:002016-07-24T20:52:42.134+02:00Chinese forces won't appear in Europe in decis...Chinese forces won't appear in Europe in decisive strength. The PR China is very, very distant and thus even in alliance with Russia only a threat regarding economy and technology.<br /><br />So far the PLA land and air forces have hardly any technological lead over Russia. Amphibious assault vehicles, a single fibre-optic guided missile, DF-21D, man-portable grenade weapons and a few low observable fighter types are the only exceptions.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-55145989205110870512016-07-24T19:25:16.251+02:002016-07-24T19:25:16.251+02:00Russia persists in their effort, China has options...Russia persists in their effort, China has options to exploit the situation and one accepted presidential candidate of the US signaled an openness to not support a NATO ally in need. This is one way to get peace with Russia. <br />Europe could be on its own in case of a Baltic invasion with just some forward deployed US tripwire forces messing up diplomatic solution options, including the options of any elected US president.<br />Political system differences between the US and Russia seem to decrease the other way round. Trump's public style is authoritarian and supports a end to freedom of speech with truthiness worthy of Russia Today.<br /><br />This blog could do with some coverage of Chinese land and air power as according to the predictions made, the SCO could potentially be an alliance deployed next door soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-1323964232100700972016-07-23T11:35:20.423+02:002016-07-23T11:35:20.423+02:00Think the worst part is the special forces everywh...Think the worst part is the special forces everywhere thinking. Which makes sense for the type of war the west is fighting, but will fail horribly if there is ever something close to a peer opponent. Madnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18111733709081883454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-6021971105163581432016-07-23T09:52:35.416+02:002016-07-23T09:52:35.416+02:00To me the whole concept of UOR points out the lack...To me the whole concept of UOR points out the lack of planning and short sighted thinking. Billions were poured on the MRAP-program with majority of the vehicles being scrapped or given away in the end. Even for the terrain they were designed for they functioned poorly because of the bad infastructure and exposing them to using roads. I feel that WOT has implemented teen-like attitude on military planning: poor, short sighted planning, I want this and that now (UOR). The worst piece of military hardware to come out as a result of WOT has to be long range UAVs. Zero survivability and as expensive as manned aircraft. <br /><br />PS. You're certainly no friend of brits (anymore) or they just have thin skin when it comes criticism.TehFinnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-43873639960894109552016-07-22T21:32:46.093+02:002016-07-22T21:32:46.093+02:00At costs of apparently USD 2-4 trillion for these ...At costs of apparently USD 2-4 trillion for these wars, the entire Western world could have replaced the majority of its coal and nuclear power plants with solar and wind power plus power storage and transmission capacities.<br /><br />Almost nobody in the West was much interested in the well-being of Afghans and their trouble prior to 2001, and trying fix only some of the top 10 most-difficult-to-fix countries only appears to be an outrageous waste of resources from a humanitarian perspective.<br /><br />Concerning the armed services, most developments from those occupation campaigns are of marginal if any utility for deterrence and defence in Europe:<br />- EW against radio command fuzes<br />- on-road vehicles hardened against RPG and under-belly command-detonated blast mines<br />- base protection C-RAM<br />- more hard body armour<br />- road demining convoys<br />etc.<br /><br />Meanwhile, plenty bad habits were acquired<br />- base-centric thinking<br />- dependence on air support<br />- staying behind cover when under fire instead of breaking contact or assaulting<br />- excessive air deconfliction<br />- casualty evacuation becoming the #1 mission<br />etc.<br /><br />Military history knows of many conflicts that misled about the nature of the next big one; Boer Wars, Spanish Civil War, Russo-Japanese war ... this is really dangerous, for misled armed services are inefficient if not operationally brittle armed services.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-51065716202306921532016-07-22T20:51:49.915+02:002016-07-22T20:51:49.915+02:00Do you think that the last 15 years of blasting mu...Do you think that the last 15 years of blasting mudhuts and ill-equipped Iraq Guards has yielded sufficient progress in technology/art of war to justify the tremendous effort for achieving to build 0 stable democracies in the region or do you think they would have been invented anyway, i.e the MRAP-program? Would the outcome be significantly different if after toppling the Hussein regime west would have left Iraq and later Afghanistan to tend for themselves? Are they worth it or just a total waste of thousands of western soldiers and maybe millions of locals? IMO no.TehFinnnoreply@blogger.com