The Era of Biden

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Well, when the re-invade Nam candidate comes around, they've got my vote.

Way I figure it, we've got unfinished business there, and finishing up might cure America's fear of 'quagmires.'

no, you miss the point again

Vietnam is not your enemy and never was

Vietnam is your Bulwark against China and always was

it's not re-invade Vietnam, it's ally with Vietnam as was the original mission in World War Two

the Vietnamese fear loathe & hate the Chinese with a passion

they are the ultimate Anti-Chinese proxy, none would fight the Chinese harder

the Vietnamese flipped to America's side long ago, after Le Duan died in 1986

I get it.

Sorry, I was just being tongue-in-cheek and couldn't find the right emoji to make that obvious.

[Smitty-48]

the Navy has the right idea looking at a follow on to the SSN-774 Virginia class

the SSN-774 was designed as a lower cost jack of all trades in favour of the much more expensive SSN-21

but now that the PLAN is presenting a more robust A2AD threat to Freedom of Navigation

they Navy is planning a next generation SSN designed for over match like the SSN-21

if you feel the need to engage in security competition with China, cut the army, boost the Navy

the PLA Ground Forces pose no threat to America at all

[Smitty-48]

South Korea is a dependent not a boon

the reason you want to go with lots of Northrop Grumman B-21A Raider stealth bombers, is range

your primary bases for deep strike against PLA A2AD / Militarized Belt & Road

are at highly secure standoff installations such as Guam, Okinawa & Diego Garcia

I don't see how that same logic doesn't apply to Bagram and Afghanistan dependency.

because nobody in South Korea is waging an insurgency against you

it's just that you don't need South Korea, they need you, that is why they are dependent

if you're going to build bases, wastelands like Afghanistan are the last places to go

the cost of having to maintain a shitty base in Afghanistan is absurd

those bases are not even useful against China, those bases are only good for COIN against Afghans

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

the Navy has the right idea looking at a follow on to the SSN-774 Virginia class

the SSN-774 was designed as a lower cost jack of all trades in favour of the much more expensive SSN-21

but now that the PLAN is presenting a more robust A2AD threat to Freedom of Navigation

they Navy is planning a next generation SSN designed for over match like the SSN-21

if you feel the need to engage in security competition with China, cut the army, boost the Navy

the PLA Ground Forces pose no threat to America at all

I love me a good killer boat as much as the next red blooded American, but England also thought they could keep their empire with just a strong navy, and it didn't work out.

Sometimes you do, in fact, have to get off the boat.

[Smitty-48]

Sometimes you do, in fact, have to get off the boat.

I don't mind if America wants to keep the troops in the field in a perpetual counterinsurgency

do as you please, I have no concern for the Woke Pentagon nor anyone who would serve them now

the GWOT is not actually bothering me

I stopped paying attention years ago when my regiment pulled out in 2014

thanks to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Victoria Regina Imperatrix

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

South Korea is a dependent not a boon

the reason you want to go with lots of Northrop Grumman B-21A Raider stealth bombers, is range

your primary bases for deep strike against PLA A2AD / Militarized Belt & Road

are at highly secure standoff installations such as Guam, Okinawa & Diego Garcia

I don't see how that same logic doesn't apply to Bagram and Afghanistan dependency.

those bases are not even useful against China, those bases are only good for COIN against Afghans

Well, them or any other fighters that come out of Pakistan for the spring/summer fighting season.

That is, theoretically, the whole point of supporting the ANDSF.

Either way, this is just circling back - so, hopefully I'm wrong, and the Taliban does it just as well so we can actually pivot to focusing on China.

[Smitty-48]

I don't see how that same logic doesn't apply to Bagram and Afghanistan dependency.

those bases are not even useful against China, those bases are only good for COIN against Afghans

Well, them or any other fighters that come out of Pakistan for the spring/summer fighting season.

That is, theoretically the whole point of supporting the ANDSF.

Either way, this is just circling back - so, hopefully I'm wrong, and the Taliban does it just as well so we can actually pivot to focusing on China.

I've said my peace on it, your posts about it are becoming increasingly uninteresting

[Smitty-48]

at this point, honestly the chain of command should be declining to serve the Woke Pentagon

this is not my military anymore, this is the military proxies of the Globalists backed by China

the Pentagon has invoked the American people themselves as the enemy

if this force is going to impale itself on its own petards from here on out, it's no longer my concern

the troops who volunteer to serve this regime in Washington do so at their own peril

I withdrawal all support, particularly moral support, from our Manchurian Candidate militaries

the Woke Pentagon is not opposing the Chinese, the Chinese are waving your colours in your face

Beijing can't get me to support them by waving the Maple Leaf in my face, make no mistake

they've already taken the Pentagon, the temple has fallen, go SERE mode, now, now, now

[Smitty-48]

again, Marshall McLuhan's World War Three

a guerrilla information war with no distinction between military and civilians

5th generation warfare, hyper powered individuals & small groups

21st century battlefield in cyberspace

at the tactical level, time is best spent hardening your immediate area against chaos

recruit, train, organize, lead your own robust neighbourhood watch

fortified hamlets, civil defence, network centric operations, leverage ex-military partisans

you've basically been reduced to the plight of the Black Panthers back in the sixties

your government is out to get you, they see you as the enemy now

they don't even deny it, they openly state that anyone who opposes them is a "Domestic Terrorist"

while they at the same time allow actual domestic terrorists like Antifa to operate with impunity

other than in the event of DEFCON 1 interpolar countervalue exchange, there is no kinetic threat

the enemy headquarters is apparently in Portland Oregon not Kabul Afghanistan

this is more like 28 Days Later World

Woke Communist Zombies inside the perimeter of Fortress America, operating state sponsored

in terms of nightmare scenarios, this is the worst I've seen in my lifetime, this is a real life dystopia

[Martin Hash]

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