Friday, March 17, 2023

Trench Warfare sucks...

 

Geez.

This shit.  This shit right here.

Trench warfare sucks.  You're in a static position.  Being suppressed by enemy fire.  Obviously these guys didn't have security setup at the edges of their line and you have a Rambo sneaking into your trench taking out your entire fire team.

Trench fighting is setting up your guys to lose and to die ugly.

Sorry but maneuver warfare gives you a chance in my opinion, trench warfare is just a slow, painful death.

Even worse?

This was daylight!

The mayhem that's going on at night must be downright frightening (and I'm using that word correctly, not being overly dramatic like so many today).
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Exclusion Zones are real...think back to the Falklands War!

 via Wikipedia...

On 30 April, the Task Force imposed a 200-mile Total Exclusion Zone around the Falklands, prohibiting all aircraft and ships from any country from entering. British special forces, the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm attacked Argentinian ships and defences.

Exclusions are rather rare today but they've been used during times of war for a long long time.

In an earlier post I wondered aloud (much to the annoyance of my readers) why the Russians didn't just setup an exclusion zone around the Crimea and be done with it.

I mean everyone and their mother knows that the US is running intel flights to gather targeting data for the Ukrainians.  Additionally its obvious from the actions of the SU pilots that their leadership is a bit beyond annoyed by it.

An exclusion zone would be a simple fix that even this blogger could think of so why aren't they doing it?

Easy.

Because this is the most jacked up war I've ever seen.  There are no lessons learned from this one.  This is a complete clusterfuck that would be funny as hell except that so many are dying and the destruction is beyond imagining.

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Workout Motivation

 

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Massive protest in France after President said he would force thru a raise in retirement age without a vote.

Today, the President of France said he’s going to force through a raise of the retirement age without a vote. Tonight, Paris looks like this.
by u/Captain_Levi_007 in antiwork

What is going on in the Western world?

Is it just me or does it seem like we're in a constant state of societal upheaval/chaos that appears to be invented rather than happening by chance.

There is no way the French President didn't know that this would be EXTREMELY controversial.

Just like politicians in big cities can see that the defund police and relaxed rules for criminality would cause a spike in crime and appear to do nothing about it despite the damage to their citizens.

It almost appears to be a planned distraction.
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The UK joins the BAE Archer Family!

 

DID NOT SEE THIS COMING!
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An unpopular opinion on the US Drone vs Russian Fighter incident...

Before I get started let me warn you. I'm gonna piss many of you off, so saddle up and get ready to punch walls!

First.  This incident is mild.  We've seen worse.  You and I know both know about the Chinese knocking down one of our P-3s and recovering all types of info from it when they made an emergency landing on one of their islands.

This is just big boy action.

Second.  You know and I know that MQ-9 was conducting an intel/recon mission on Crimea.  The Ukrainians are getting targeting information from the US and NATO and we all know that this flight was just part of that.

You keep losing aircraft on your airfield with precision strikes and I can guarantee if you were commanding the air defense of that region then you'd push out any aircraft that got close.

What I can't figure is why the Russians haven't declared an exclusion zone around Crimea.

I don't know the legal steps to do so but with an active war going on they could easily declare any military aircraft flying with 200miles will be targeted.

Not at ALL up to speed on the "Law of War" but I believe that would cleanse any activity like this.

Long story short?

It ain't nothing to get excited about.

As a matter of fact the knock down of the MQ-9 is fairly standard. What was wild is the Chinese flying a balloon over the US and it making it all the way across our country before we took action, but this shit?

Kids stuff.
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Open Comment Post. 16 Mar 23

 

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Austro-Hungarian soldiers executing men and women in Serbia, 1916

 

Its only natural (I believe) to have areas of interest that you seek to "specialize" in. For some its cars, others hunting, and still others crafts. Many of us on the blog like to think we have a passing knowledge of military history.

I can't speak for you but I'm 110% neophyte.

There is just so much I don't know and that's just looking at Western Military History.  I can't imagine how much I'm missing from battles that have taken place in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

I ran across this pic from an article in Real Clear History.  Check out the article here and marvel at how much we don't know about the great war.
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It appears that we've created a new alliance .... China, Russia and Iran are all exercising together

 

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

And just like that all the money Saudi Arabia pledged to Ukraine just vanished...

 

Don't know if this is real or a psyops campaign but its brilliant.

Everyone in the Western World seems to believe that Ukraine is universally supported.  That is far from true.

In the Middle East, when this goes viral and it will, what support there is will collapse.

If Saudi Arabia moves ahead with money to Ukraine, the citizens will go crazy.  The last thing the Kingdom needs are the peasants running wild in the street...especially over desecration of their holy book.

Note.  I'm saying that this was a carefully crafted psyops play because Grunts don't operate this way.  They'd piss on it, take a shit on it but use it as a cutting board?  Naw.  That wouldn't be the play for people involved in a fight against what they consider to be Muslim extremist.  Trust me on this one.
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