Coalitions Rule Everything Around Me
Added 2023-08-11 17:24:38 +0000 UTC
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Allow me to come in 3 months late (figured someone would have gotten to it already.) Darryl Cooper does Martyrmade and he is a Navy vet (not SEAL), but when he retired from his day job to podcast full time he was working on air defense systems for a defense contractor
Chris Hensley
2023-10-15 21:51:51 +0000 UTCgreat point by maarek about the ukrainians not folding you can't take that away from them there are 3 factors in war - materiel, knowledge and courage (morale) https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1916/march/moral-factor-war morale is the biggest x-factor in a war you can have billion $ equipment, without will to fight you collapse (afghanistan) and the taliban inherit some shiny toys pretty easy to count F-35s, destroyers, number of cruise missiles but how many days you could last being shelled/drone-striked in a damp rat-infested trench? harder to estimate until for real. now we have some idea of it for ukraine and russia going back an episode, tinkzorg made the parallel between late rome and current global american empire - rationales for defending borders with population replacement how long would a guatemalan signed up for a green card last? but equally how long would an average chinese (or taiwanese) conscript last? for me it's also a big question
CW
2023-08-30 07:57:26 +0000 UTC
