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In the past, both my brother and I worked in military intelligence. Specifically, he spent a long time working for ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) doing war
by JPKab 5y ago
In the past, both my brother and I worked in military intelligence. Specifically, he spent a long time working for ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) doing war game simulations.
He routinely would get shouted at by various Admirals, for fairly obvious reasons.
Wars aren't won by the nation who is best prepared when they start, but by the nations which respond with the most honesty to their own failures after they start.
- DudeInBasement 5y agoThe next cyber/eco war doesn't care about military. It can easily destabilize and let the country collapse.
- aurizon 5y agoSadly, the pace of modern war will not give you the luxury of a re-start after a loss. The enemy will be taking over the best houses and issuing occupation scrip and the women will soon be mothering children of the occupiers while the men are in labor camps - if they are allowed to live at all.
- vagrantJin 5y agoThis isn't 1850. No one cares about your women. Less so as a military objective. If they shoot, they'll shoot everyone and the dog. If they don't, thank a war treaty.
- aurizon 5y agoHuman nature is what it is. Recall the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre War brings man to his primal base - as we can see in all the brushfire wars in the last 20 years - now we have killer drones - how soon before a killed drone take out a head of state?
- vagrantJin 5y agoSure. Modern warfare is still war but Im saying no sane general and his chiefs are out here drafting documents on how best to take women prisoners. That nonsense can be pursued by militias is some backwater asscrack not a proper army. That's why I said as a military objective.
- aurizon 5y agoTrue, a robot/drone army will have granular digital control. A select army too - but when it gets bad = conscripts = backwater asscrack in motion
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- redis_mlc 5y agoThe grandparent correctly described France in 1945. Today (2021) they're trying to sort out the paternity of 200,000+ children born to French women and German soldiers. The French Resistance glamorized in Hollywood movies only seriously erupted after Germany ordered that all able-bodied French men and women be enslaved. Then they had nothing to lose.
- loopz 5y agoModern warfare leaves only rubble left.