Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
10d ago
US spends a lot of resources (both money and personnel) in South Korea, Germany, Bahrain, etc.
Devil's advocate: Germany is far less likely to result in US forces/materiel being lost. If you assume the "Israeli aggression causes all Middle-east ills" line of thought, which I do not, you can even squeeze Bahrain into the same category as Germany, and I believe Bahrain also provides the US with an important naval port.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
It probably also helps that the USN made sure not to get teleported right off the coast this tine.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
On a long enough timeframe, all one's opponents wind up as dust on the ash heap of history.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
I'm not making any claims based on missile stocks or whatever, I'm looking at what Donald Trump is saying live every day.
That's your second mistake.
I don't really like being part of a country where the government just says shit it doesn't mean.
Oh, I hate it. But it's the hand that's been dealt. No good trying to behave as if the cards are different than what they are.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
First time I was in school, I ignored the free subscriptions. Now that I've returned to grad school? You better believe I'm taking advantage of everything I can.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
although so was the US near Venezuela, with at least paper legal authority on incorrectly-flagged vessels
Paper legal authority is, aside from guns, the only legal authority that matters on the high seas. You’ll notice everyone from the Indians to the French to the Swedes have started following course.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
I think there's an Honor Harrington bit where the difference between "No Mercy" and "No Quarter" is demonstrated... by not killing the survivors in lifepods.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
Three Motters in a Trenchcoat?
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
which specific models you believe they are holding back.
The Qassem Basir, for one.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
I don't think there's a single other country that the US has spent more time wargaming and thinking about how to defeat
Hell, it led to the (in) famous "Millenium Challenge" exercise.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
I was actually looking at ONI's analysis of Iran's Navy from 2017 today, and I believe it said the percentage of the world's LNG that passes through the Strait is higher than oil. So yes, definitely important... the US and Europe are probably fortunate it's after the cold weather.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
In the early days of the war several carriers risked it, and a few were hit for their trouble
I'm assuming by "carriers" you mean bulk and/or oil, not aircraft carriers?
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
Over the span of a few years we have shown that we can e.g.: blow up the secret pagers of every commander across a wide and dispersed military network;
I don't think America can take credit for that... if you mean "America and its allies" as "we", then yes, absolutely.
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
Why on earth would the French welcome the Allies as liberators? Tens of thousands of French civilians were killed during the opening stages of the Allied invasion of France!
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
I had heard that initially, several countries weren't allowing the use of their bases/airspace for the attacks, but that has since changed after the Iranian retaliation.
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
They'd also have to find an insurer willing to take it.
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
Securing these objects is not just about fencing. Of course, fencing is an obstacle, but it is not a roadblock. This means that if I want to overcome the fence, I will always overcome it.
I mean, that's not wrong. Generally, security these days isn't "leave it unmonitored with a wall nobody can get past", it's "have sufficient fence/barbed wire/whatnot to delay people long enough for security to respond."
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
My sister was and still is one of those types; I'm very much not. Nothing in my parents seems like it would have encouraged such behavior in my sister.
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
It's from what I believe is his final congressional testimony as admiral: Economics of Defense Policy, Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee Congress of the United States Ninety-Seventh Congress Second Session Part 1 January 28, 1982. Page 55, PDF page 59:
Senator PROXMIRE. I recall that several years ago, a former Tenneco lobbyist, the late Thomas Corcoran, is to have lobbyed extensively in the White House and in Congress to block your reappointment. Is that true?
Admiral RICKOVER. That is correct. He is dead now. I am sure God will treat him as he merits.
Looks like I was off by two words, which may have been throwing off your search results. The Wikiquote page for the Kindly Old Gentleman is missing a great many of his best lines, IMO... such as the one where he compared cleaning up the patent lawyer profession to Hercules cleaning the Augean stables:
In coming here, I feel a bit like Eurystheus of Greek mythology. The Augean stables housed three thousand oxen and had not been cleaned for thirty years. Eurystheus did not have the wherewithal to clean the stables himself. But he did point out the problem to Hercules—who cleaned them by diverting two rivers.
In similar vein, I can only hope that some of you will take on the Herculean task of cleansing the legal profession. This is well worth the effort, even if you have to drown a few oxen in the process.
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
Could've gone with the Rickover classic:
He is dead now. I trust God will treat him as he merits.
Gives a fig leaf to the rudeness.
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
Basically the entire opening of the war in the Pacific--Philippines, for instance. Kasserine Pass as well, maybe.
Mantergeistmann
16d ago
The earlier incarnations of this are Zazzle and Cafepress, later perfected by Redbubble and Teepublic and a handful of other platforms. Believe it or not I used to make a lot of money on Redbubble.
My wife used to make a decent chunk of change on Zazzle and Cafepress. Nothing fancy, just different "I love my XHORSEBREED" stickers and shirts and stuff, because horse people are like dog owners. Dried up around the time those two companies changed their payout formulas.
Mantergeistmann
16d ago
"Escort Commander" about the same fellow was one of my favorites when I was young. Damn good book about one hell of a man.
Mantergeistmann
17d ago
Rather, these wokies really like the idea of terrorizing other people with ever-changing language rules; taking over buildings on college campuses; blocking traffic; getting laws passed to punish and humiliate their out-group; and so on. Wokeness gives them a means to pursue these activities while feeling righteous in doing so.
It's a bit disappointing the term CHORFs never caught on (outside the Warhammer fandom)
Cliquish, Holier-than-thou, Obnoxious, Reactionary, Fanatics.
Yeah, that's most of the ones I onow: "I heard on the news/social media that Israel just killed a kid! Why can't they just stop killing Palestinians and get along?"
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