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The US military is currently having to rethink its whole power projection approach from "place something here" to "place something near here, but out of A2/AD r
by lainga 5y ago
The US military is currently having to rethink its whole power projection approach from "place something here" to "place something near here, but out of A2/AD range, and then go to the place". Because everything on sea and air is kind of getting vulnerable to being taken out now, before you can get the payload ashore. Probably they would use Starship as a "fire brigade" to move things between US-controlled theaters (or from middle of theater to the very edge of defensible airspace) when there was an emergency need for something.
- peteradio 5y agoala Town Portal from HOMM3
- ByThyGrace 5y agoWhat an unexpected, particularly specific video game reference, but also too metaphorical to illustrate this scenario. Town Portal means literal teletransportation :D
- eggy 5y agoWell the Pentagon has admitted UAPs (UFOs, come on!) are more substantial than a TV Show and fringe believers. Why not portals now. We know world governments meet for coffee on Mars already ;) The comment about bringing HIMARS to the edge of defensible air space makes great sense.
- peteradio 5y agoTown portal was about the only way to generally project strong presence in a single turn. Seemed similar for some reason.