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Shit I wish they thought that way. I don’t see a whole lot of thought on how to sustain a 24-hour shooting war at many levels of leadership. It seems like they’re just thinking about widget vs widget during one vul. If your 7th-Gen fighters get shot in the ass during the RTB because they’re being asked to extend way too far on an OTH mission with no backfill, well that sounds like a root cause to me.

Been watching F1 for 20 years. Never seen the level of strange calls that Ferrari is making now.

Where is this list?

Looks like a great time to own property in Canada

Depends if you’re a Flat Earth kinda guy

Only cowards act that way to people that they know can’t fight back. It’s like taunting an animal at the zoo from behind the glass. Knobs like that certainly aren’t walking down the sidewalk telling off normal people.

Brian Deese referring to international relations theory, aka liberal vs realism vs constructivism. Not the same as American politics liberal vs conservative. He’s a career international politics and economics guy. This is a case of an academic being too smart for the audience rather than a vision of Drag Queen Story Time being mandated globally. https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/26/one-world-rival-theories/

DSM 5 removed the word “disorder” from gender dysphoria in 2013 to remove the “stigma” associated with disorders. Though almost every other syndrome is listed as a disorder, including Body Dysmorphic Disorder. I can’t quite figure out how to account for America’s 180° turnabout in the perception of transgender people in the last decade, nor can I quite figure out what entity pushed so hard for the change.

This is a sweeping generalization: 50s Baby Boomers > 60s protestors > 70s decadents > 80s yuppies > today’s old liberals. They never lived up to their WW2 vet parents’ accomplishments, so they’ve always felt the need to “do something” even if there’s nothing to do. Combine that with the white guilt from becoming millionaires for doing nothing other than buying a house in the 80s and living off the economic foundations built by the Greatest Generation, and you get a lot of the current Democrat politicians that are striving to accomplish something before they die. For boomers like Warren, Sanders, Biden, etc, the overturning of Roe v Wade - the single most important social political issue - is absolutely devastating to their self-perceived legacy. From their viewpoint, after a lifetime of comfortable counter-culturalism, seeing the world turning back to that of their war-winning, company-founding, golf-playing dads is absolutely devastating.

The USAF is getting a free lesson right now on why the artificial tanker gap caused by early KC-10 retirement is at best a criminally negligent act and at worse a root cause for a loss in a shooting war. Even against a second-rate opponent. The real question is whether they’ll admit mistakes or implement a solution.

Well I can’t be alone in thinking a new Cold War sure would be fun. It’ll most certainly get us back into actual space exploration.

The Veterans Parking spots at Lowes and Home Depot are dumb. We’re not all handicapped with PTSD, and even if we were, when offered the luxury most of us are the types to automatically refuse the help anyway. I saw the instructions for applying a military discount at HD once, it says to most importantly “ensure you thank the member for their service.” Dude could be a CMOH winner or awaiting NJP, and the cashier is required by company policy to pander to them because of an attribute. Just like the gate agent lets you board before the families, or the commissary makes old ladies wait for uniformed personnel. Nah, I’ll wait my turn. I imagine many gay people feel the same way about Pride Month when they see dudes slinging dong in public during the small town parade. FFS, just act normal and get on with it.

What sorts of capabilities? Is it about getting more fuel to more people or is it a distraction from that?

That article reads like it was written by Chinese AI then run back and forth through Google Translate a few times. To comment on the content, the biggest factor in winning a conflict is the motivation of the population and its military to fight. Motivation attracts better people, makes them train harder to develop and refine tactics, and increases budget and technology inputs from the population. There’s no way the PRC population is as motivated to conquer Taiwan as the ROC population is to defend it. Even if the PRC were able to initially get some false motivation from propaganda, it would quickly become unraveled as the conflict drug on. The PRC has known this for the last 60 years - which is why they’ve never attacked - and the Russian-Ukraine conflict has only reinforced that perception.

Problem solved, then

It works great, a lot better than MAAPTK’s tanker pairing. The old board is still on the wall for historic significance.

No fighter pilots on staff is having noticeable effects from what I’ve experienced. The high dollar LFEs are run mostly by boomer civilians with no concept of modern tactics; the conclusions are pre-drawn and mostly centered on proving they need more billions for an acquisition. The bureaucratic requirements are through the roof, then executed horribly leading to delays and frustration. The AOCs are run by “not my job” civilians, boomer guard ABMs, and like FLEA said, cross-trained 13Os that have no business planning or executing an air campaign. Acquisitions have been totally handed over to snake oil salesmen, because there is no one left in staff with the talent or energy to know otherwise. This is what happens when you take your best prospects, spend millions on them to mold their brains into the world’s best by a years-long process that only exists in mil aviation, then let them walk out the door when their commitment is up. It is a criminal waste of taxpayer dollars.

This entire war is amazing to watch. Russia’s only off ramp to return to normalcy is if the FSB kills Putin and his successor says, “yeah, he was a crazy asshole, good riddance, now who wants to buy some oil?” I’d put $69 on it happening within the year.

It’s not a bad chunk of change for those of us who love our jobs and the people we serve with. Doubly so if you’re a U-2 guy without a Guard option! (unless you’re cool with flying something lame)

Ghost of Kiev is better thought of as the Ukrainian resolve personified.

America so desperately needs someone that can unite us. Political infighting is fucking us over. The Russians are absolute paper tigers, especially in a conventional offensive. The dangerous part is they would resort to nukes when backed into a corner. Like a homeless guy with a hand grenade. I love our Intel guys, but lately too many bros have bought into scary intel baseball cards with long range threats. A sniper rifle out ranges a platoon of Marines, but that’s not going to keep them from advancing.

Watched the entire Putin speech. He essentially feels disrespected by bigger nations, gets visibly emotional, and repeats the classic “we have no other choice” line about invading Ukraine. Said that if he didn’t, then Russia will cease to exist. Shades of Napoleon, Tojo, and Hitler. Small penis confirmed.

“Where’d this fucking monkey come from?!?”

The SpaceX suits are completely for show. They can’t turn their helmets, for one, so they can’t look sideways, which is useless in an airplane. The suits are designed to be strapped into a rocket where you stare forward and watch the touch screens telling you everything is ok for a 20 minute flight. There’s no parachute harness or LPUs, which would all go over the top of this suit. I don’t know if this helmet and suit combo would survive a rapid d from sea level to a near vacuum, but it sure doesn’t look like it and I bet they never tried.

There’s a whole lot of people out there who evangelize about the life decisions they made, which often seems to be rooted in insecurity about said decisions. The “Bro why would anybody want to be in the Air Force,” guys are almost as bad as the blue Kool Aid drinkers that scoffed at the guys who constantly deployed and got no strats. The most opinionated on both sides just seem to be fishing for reinforcement from the crowd. It never comes across as understanding of a different guy’s perspective, and it certainly isn’t humble. At the end of your life, the amount of money you have doesn’t really matter as long as your family is safe and secure, just as your personal list of military accomplishments will seem pretty unimportant in the grand scheme of things.