. The conceptual difference between a force suitable for holding (and slowly moving) a frontline and a force suitable for rapid exploitatio...

. The ability of some people to perform mental gymnastics in regard to this ongoing war is astonishing. Most if not everything of what is be...

.   The normal ideas for a 6th generation fighter / combat aircraft follow the established triad of air dominance fighter (F-22 continuation...

. It's about time to revisit key assumptions & conclusions of mine that I used since about 2009 at the latest. I assumed that Germa...

. Hitler's NSDAP party had a paramilitary organisation for bullying, intimidating, 'security' at events and plain brawling agai...

. Light infantry appears to have a strange fascination on military fanbois. It's almost the embodiment of playing soldier. No boring wo...

. Western entertainment businesses have warped many of their sourced quite a lot. I don't quite recognise the Grimm's fairy tales o...

. Russia doesn't use tactical nukes in Ukraine even though it gets humiliated and its regime and mythology are at existential risk. How...

. He's so close, yet the real insight eludes him.   The way Ukraine makes use of military equipment with briefly-trained men and reserv...

  "Dunning-Kruger effect" is the term for people basically being too stupid and incompetent to understand that they are too stupid...