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The downside being we won’t big enough fodder to actually do those training sorties and honed the edge on the spear so we’ll. Why won’t/can’t we fly Raptors for 40 years has nothing to do with some sort of obsolescence and everything to do with not having enough tails to solve the attrition of flight hours. There will never be an F-22C. How good/proficient an Air Force would we have had we stopped building Eagles in 1980 and vipers in 1987. If we’d been trying to limp that fleet at 5G maximums how many less sorties would you generate and likewise people could you have taken from 1LT to patch wearer. We are quickly becoming the militaries we used to laugh at. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We just did a Division exercise where JSTARs MTI was being briefed as the primary collection asset at the target working group. The ALO and I had a laugh at that in the back. That’s the real worry as the military services rapidly divest capes in a vacuum to preserve their own sacred modification and renovation requirements. Nobody is talking to each other about what serious capability gaps are going to exist for the next 6-9 days/months/years while we adjust. See the Marine Corps entire reinvention of it’s self and divesting all it’s Armor and Tube artillery. Yeah it’s nice they want an identity of their own, but the MAGTF concept as it existed was a critical piece of a lot of O plans in between the light airborne speed bump forces and the arrival of the heavy divisions that have to be floated into theatre. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The funny part about this is with a LSCO fight we keep forgetting about our opponents SOF and what they will be doing. It is entirely possible we will need a heavy dedicated asset to remain behind the forward line of troops in the support zone both to keep an eye on whatever strongholds we bypass, as well as be there to smack the shit out of whatever irregular forces they try and hit us with. Nobody wants to brief that as their chosen mission set because it’s not sexy. I for one would feel a lot better in a division combined arms rehearsal or target decision board if we weren’t standing around a table but simultaneously worried about Charlie jumping the wire while the MPs are busy picking their noses. The murder bus being overhead for persistent security would help solve that. That would be the Gunship truly going back to its roots in being the overhead persistent ass whooping for any ground troops in Asia. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Who knew how much you could accomplish with 7.5 to 8 inches….. Somebody needs to get Yeet into any brief on said concept. Still I think there’s something immediately applicable with SDB and a rocket engine that could be translated later to something like the air launched effects project working in the Army. I think we need to look at some form of common “standoff shuttle” that can handle a family of effects types over what appears to be JASSM in a smaller package with the same costs. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

We’ve seen what launching an SDB on an M26 rocket can achieve. I wonder if somebody has looked at how much extra push you could swing by mounting something like an old sparrow motor to the back of one and just telling it to climb to space with a 10-18k foot head start. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Somebody needs to campaign on that metaphor. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And we will get to play with Nuclear response when the conventional fight starts going against them…. Yes much smarter strategy than letting your enemy burn themselves out against a non nuclear nation which after 18 months they still refuse to unleash the genie against. That’ll be much less costly than losing say… Antwerp or Stuttgart (god forbid say Baltimore) and the resulting costs of that fireball and fallout. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Again… Russia has invaded (really reconquered) neighbors continuously over the last 3 decades. You acting surprised at a desire we stop them in the last nation they can invade (other than Moldova) who isn’t a NATO country is your inability to grasp why they are motivated to their current and past line of action. Ukraine is the place we either burn them down, or we get to do it in an article 5 country. When facing NATO what do you think Putin responds would be to losing given what we could potentially do to his regime? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Until Russia isn’t holding forced in reserve for the impending fight for NATO, they are not attrited. Tats how this ends, a Russian incapable of either conquering a NATO neighbor or threatening an invasion of the Baltic states. Until then we are far from broke compared to what a nuclear exchange with a Russia that foolishly invades and responds to losing would cost us. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

The Russians have violated established sovereignty and peace established borders 9 times since the fall of the Soviet Union. And the Ukes don’t have to “win” they have to repel and resist. Why when you have effectively driven the aggressor onto the purely defense would you negotiate for a cease fire that only serves to restore their combat power. Russian couldn’t “win” and annex Ukraine right now without deprecating all their effective conventional combat power. They won’t do that because of their baseless fear of some impending NATO invasion in whatever crazy reality Putin lives in. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

No we’ve been assured by people who read Twitter that Ukraine is achieving nothing, this fight hasn’t resulted in the erosion of the combat power arrayed against NATO, and that we should cut aid and just force them to capitulate, because that would save US lives in the end. Get with the narrative. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Actions have consequences, some of them life changing. To the group that doesn’t think so? Ask Michael Richards. These people were being groomed for access to the highest most front loaded echelons of success and privilege and a bunch of them did it while simultaneously embracing soft anti-semitism because it was the popular group think. Signing onto that train was the social media equivalent of getting a face tattoo of a dick on your chin and then demanding society give you a mulligan. Applying the standard they themselves would apply if somebody was holding a confederate flag at a counter BLM protest, they obviously shouldn’t be working in those echelons they were about to find themselves a part of. The only people I feel bad for are the parents that worked whatever magic they did to get their kids into such a advantageous position to have them stupidly throw it all away. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Your quote could be attributed to literally anyone who has ever had to sit in a staff briefing or execute a NEO/HADR run by Dep of State… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It won’t go off or launch or anything… SRBs are fired by electrical impulse (Needs some level of voltage). The danger is when they do launch all that abuse will have cracked the solid booster in some way so as it launches/burns it will explode. Not as likely since the way they are hitting it is mostly in line with the booster propellant so it’s transmitting energy through the length of the motor but still. Same reason you can’t use a rocket/missile that’s green dropped more than 3 ft. It’s actually a warning in most TMs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s complete false stereotyping…. They’d rape her first. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I as gonna say my dream scenario is immediate floor vote on putting McCarthy back in as speaker. Force the Dems to go on record with what’s more important, immediate house normalcy or an alliance with Gaetz. As soon as that is done, bring the Ukraine bill to the floor with provisions to funding Israel. We get some form of bipartisan normalcy back. The Dems get to show Gaetz he isn’t in charge of crap. And if we are really lucky the likes of Omar or Tlaib resign in protest or at least say something they can’t take back on record. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Way to double down on crazy bitch. I guess at least she’s wearing her shit loyalty out in the open then. I’m sure party powers that be will be quick to denounce her…. Don’t worry we can all wait. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Anybody that thinks they did this without the Quds force providing support and coordination is kidding themselves. Also our resident Palestinian congresswoman has been silent on the death toll or abduction of Israeli women and children. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m sure they were thinking about all the medical aid and food they could fly in across the “blockade” when they got these… Oh wait no… just another example of the governing body in Gaza choosing to buy weapons instead of help the people they claim to be protecting. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Again. Taking a precision guided munition or putting 105 on it to knock down a building with a S-head who is literally incapable of effecting anything outaide AK range is not unleashing the original implication of “taking the gloves off” or “pushing shit in” to use your parlance. That’s playing whack-a-mole from a position of impunity. Tabqa damn or when it got Mosul/Raqqa was considered the most recent “Wild West” for US Forces. Compare us taking a week to stop and examine whether or not we killed civilians that ISIS herded into the building and deliberately baited air strike to or just how long we made the Iraqis wait before we finally struck the hospital in Old Mosul. Now look at Mariupol or Bakhmut and compare. And that’s still a misunderstanding of what is being asked for, total unbridled war. Total war as being opined about is to acknowledge that every portion of a societal infrastructure and the people participating in it are part of the apparatus to make war. See the Russians targeting the grain supply or the power grid on Ukraine. Or us bombing the ball bearings, steal production, fuel refining capacity, and most of all the people that build the weapons in WWII. Even in 91 or 03 that wasn’t the kind of targeting we adopted. We were attacking their immediate capacity to engage tactically or inflict casualties on our immediate forces. Mentioned earlier the “highway of death” was probably a great example of actually adopting the annihilation of your enemies war-making capacity, and what did we do once cameras were on it, we turned it off. And if you want to make this a dick measuring contest and compare deployments and “what you’ve been part of” I can very readily play. I doubt you’re going to find my perspective on the matter limited. Even still, being amazed at the killing power effectiveness of our weaponry in some individual battle is not a measure for seeing the US war making apparatus truly unchained to fight a war to a decisive definable victory. We’re talking about adopting a line of thinking inline with Lemay’s era and carrying that out. Tell me that guy could even exist in the current environment much less be types in charge when the bell goes off. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Anybody else catch all the announcer booth call outs across games for terrible officiating? Some absolutely bizarre calls made by refs this weekend. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

When in any current conflict have you seen us go to the “kill them this is war” mentality compared relatively to other countries attitudes. We get into a nasty fight in Wardak or TK and we have a gunship dropping 40mm for demonstration against a mountain side, or we clear hourly rocket runs by the Apaches against some obscure block of yellow terrain amongst an area of interest. If we were for example the Russians we’d have been throwing that ordnance in the 200 series because we didn’t care. There’s an article a few posts up explaining that the RussianUkraine thing is carrying not just a war for territory but a war for extermination flavor. When did that concept ever really play in our mindset. I was over Raqqa when we literally didn’t give a crap and even that was reserved compared to watching what the Russians were doing with TOS-1 in Aleppo. Look at Mariupol and the doctrinal concept of “annihilation fires.” We stopped doing anything like that in August of 1945. Could we get there, maybe. But as I said it would take a reality of pain inflicted in our own home territory that we would just as likely have people sue for peace and we definitely wouldn’t feel that compulsion to act if it was just “people over there.” Lose Rose Barracks in Germany and you’ll get a lot of rhetoric, but what action is a real question. That’s part of the reason some of us are so insistent that Ukraine needs to win or at the very least neutralize to parity/exhaustion this war with Russia. Eliminate the opportunity to dither in the face of aggression when actually met with it because it doesn’t get to us. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Go read any news sites YouTube of this. It’s already filled with “Israeli occupiers” and other such apologetic tripe. I’m sure as soon as the Israelis start doing any effective damage the regulars in the UN apparatus will be up in arms and forget all about or apologetically ignore this brazen act of terrorism. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You’re confusing our track record of expressing combat power at distance to our own will, not at fighting a war. Go read a history book focused on the first series of months/year of any of those “take the gloves off” wars. I’d suggest Dr Shawn Faulkners lecture on WWI 1917, or when it comes out Jon Parshall’s book on 1942. WWI was us buying a place at the peace table through sacrifice. WWII was literally us letting the other team score for the entirety of the first half with little to show for it while we got our feet under us and learned the vital lessons that led to all those 1944 victories. If you don’t think we will do a lot of that in the next one I’ve got news for you. We have a hard enough time getting commanders to actively digest the lessons learned in Ukraine without playing the “well we’ve always done it this way,” card. Does anybody honestly believe we could in an era of social media and instant access survive something akin to 1942. One battle of Savo Island or those first years of B17 raids worth of casualties. Do you think likewise we could just carpet bomb a city to attack a port or bomb to rubble a co-use airport. What do you think our societal demand for leadership heads or stopping the war would be? Would it be more distracting to a political class seeking only to remain in leadership than say actively prosecuting a war? We haven’t had a no holds barred full gloves off war because we haven’t had an existential crises for our own survival to accompany it. Even with one by 1945 Americans were largely over the war, and Japan was seeking that for a negotiated peace to drag it to 46. It’s one of the reasons the Navy wasn’t allowed to seek their preferred option of blockade and starve. Even in modern coin it’s bred into us to maximize the CDE discussion to applying force. Anybody that wants to see that contrast go watch a Ranger Raid and then compare it to a raid run by the SAS or Grom. One group is executing call outs, the other is “knocking” with a Gustav. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We aren’t good at war, everybody else has just been gawd awfully terrible at it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk