Interesting article, thanks for sharing. I’m also going to crosspost it to the Zhukov Military Academy community.

The author is very thorough and I wasn’t expecting him to actually point out correctly why the DPRK has nuclear weapons, after I read he worked for the Department of National “Defence”. And “surgical strikes” are a myth, he was also right there. It’s deliberate propaganda to, I think, turn military invasions into something that sounds much more innocent, such as a “peacekeeping” operation. In the same vein we renamed the department of war (yes, really) to the department of defence. We only target the bad guys, you see, civilian populations have nothing to fear. That helps sell the invasion to the public at home, especially after the failure that was Vietnam for Amerika (though the renaming of the department of defense was done right after WW2, but I digress).

But his comparison between the Russian “dumb” bomb and the American “smart” bomb is also interesting, because it’s been known for a decade or two now that the US is highly reliant on technological prowess. I guess that’s what happens when you have an unchecked budget allocated to military spending, but with that they are highly reliant on technology and the logistics of such technology. To some extent I think (and hope) that this will be their downfall. The US has the budget to put in their contractors and overall military apparatus, and so it’s an expensive army to maintain. If you can hit their supplies, if you can destroy their technological edge, how probable is it that you will exhaust their war effort? It is clearly not an efficient army.

Did you know that if a country purchases American F-35 planes, by contract they are not allowed to open some parts of the plane for repairs? You have to get an American engineer to do it for you, who will be flown in either from the USA or from the nearest base. This is a huge waste of money on the purchaser’s part, because they obviously have capable engineers (and military planes require a lot of maintenance). Not only can they not use their own engineers, but they also have to wait for a certified one to get there, and pay for the trip and labour. Consider also that some European countries are buying American planes when there are planes just as capable from their neighbouring countries. You can almost taste the imperialism going on there, lol.

Finally read this. I love the idea that these rocket barrages can really win monetarily bc they’re so much cheaper than israeli missile defenses, or that instead of building expensive aircraft carriers, its cheaper to build missiles to take them out. What would be really exciting is in the next few years that US military bases start coming under more rocket attacks, and they have to make the same decision Britain did in withdrawing.