Ukraine invasion
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If we have no ability to produce semiconductors. We can’t replace semiconductors that are destroyed (used in attacks, cyber, blown up,etc) everything is ran electronically now. Ukraine invasion is to stop the gases need to produce semiconductors nothing more. Maybe you will wake up when China takes Taiwan. And we have no ability to purchase or produce them.
I’d argue it’s our political game and decision making that sucks.
All the military might doesn’t guarantee the desired outcome is achieved. Power is employed in four realms: Diplomacy, Information, Military force, Economic. Cyber is either a subset of any/all those realms as an enabler, or its own realm depending on school of thought.
Putin hasn’t ‘won’ in the D realm (west isn’t committed to win), I is a draw…internally winning, externally he doesn’t really care, M is a win so far, but who knows long term, and E hasn’t really started yet.
I would rephrase what I said that GG game is solid, we can invade, defeat and takeover enemy ground easily, but we really have no clue how to keep peace and fight an insurgent war, which keep peace is a political game.
cycleguy2300
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Uh, you got that backwards, and somewhat inaccurate.
DEFCON is tied to nuclear threat postures (at level 2 or 1) and are listed on a scale from five to one with five being “peacetime” and the top of the scale, DEFCON One being in a state of “maximum readiness.” The five DEFCON levels are:
DEFCON 1: Maximum military readiness for “immediate response” to threats or attacks
DEFCON 2: Military forces stand ready to deploy and fight in six hours or less
DEFCON 3: Select forces are ready to deploy in 15 minutes
DEFCON 4: “Above normal readiness”
DEFCON 5: “Normal”
We’ve been to 2 twice (Bay of Pigs, Desert Storm) and 3 and handful times more.
Yep and I’m right by Dyess at least it’ll be over quick.
cycleguy2300
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I'd condense those realms into two. Military and Economic. I think Putin has won the diplomatic side by his use of military (so far without any meaningful third party intervention).
Sure some people are yelling "stop" from the sidelines, but the reality is they don't GAF or they would jump in and help, meaning Putin won the diplomatic argument.
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Russia has 3 known missle launch capable boats. They have an admitted launch depth of about 60 feet over deck or about 120 feet dive depth. There are a lot of oil rigs in gulf, that can mask any boat gone electric for propulsion. You do not "blow" ballast tanks to come to launch depth, you steer with bow planes mostly to 100 feet then add some speed to create lift as you allow vales to expend the water in ballast tanks that are under pressure from original depth.
There is no way to send torpedoes into any submarine quickly. Anti-sub planes can spend hours to days tracking a boat, dropping active and passive sono-bouys to find a boat. The hydrophones in the gulf only work to a point as with all the drilling and oil production going on, sound is quite noisy out there. Also the gulf is a mass of shipping that hides sound as well. Any good boat captain can find a container ship and ride its shadow damn near anywhere.
I am not of a mind just now we would see a boat launch on Texas. Launch on New York or DC I can see that. What is very unlikely is in a nuclear ballistic missile attack, Texas is gonna glow.
Putin defintely threw the gaunlet down with his not so veiled threat to retailite with his speech on broadcast live on television at 5.45am Moscow time, President Putin said: "Whoever tries to impede us, let alone create threats for our country and its people, must know that the Russian response will be immediate and lead to the consequences you have never seen in history."
“All relevant decisions have been taken. I hope you hear me.”
There is no way to send torpedoes into any submarine quickly. Anti-sub planes can spend hours to days tracking a boat, dropping active and passive sono-bouys to find a boat. The hydrophones in the gulf only work to a point as with all the drilling and oil production going on, sound is quite noisy out there. Also the gulf is a mass of shipping that hides sound as well. Any good boat captain can find a container ship and ride its shadow damn near anywhere.
I am not of a mind just now we would see a boat launch on Texas. Launch on New York or DC I can see that. What is very unlikely is in a nuclear ballistic missile attack, Texas is gonna glow.
Putin defintely threw the gaunlet down with his not so veiled threat to retailite with his speech on broadcast live on television at 5.45am Moscow time, President Putin said: "Whoever tries to impede us, let alone create threats for our country and its people, must know that the Russian response will be immediate and lead to the consequences you have never seen in history."
“All relevant decisions have been taken. I hope you hear me.”
Darqhelmet
You had one job, one.
Ahahahahhahahahahaha we can’t even put cars on the road right now because Asian foundries are backed up. A chip is not a chip, they are all super specific and specked out years before they are produced. What world are you living in. TI couldn’t produce enough chips for god damn microwaves let alone all of our demand.
Doesn’t matter how old the F35 is (or the F22, for that matter). We’ve flown our 4th and 5th gen threats against most every Soviet and Chinese fighter and have been successful enough that those countries decided we’re far enough ahead even with our 4th Gen that they’d rather fight with SAMs, which is why the S400 is so prolific.
US conventional force on force war doctrinally severs strategic and operational C2 and the Integrated Air Defense System (IADS) as a precursor for air superiority. Russian/Chinese counter threat doctrine is to allow IADS to operate independently of higher authority (if it flies, it dies) so it becomes an dance of Suppressing or Destroying Enemy Air Defenses until conditions allow us to start working on operational and tactical targets.
The genius of Putin going for Ukraine is all the strategic and operational C2 and IADS targets are inside Russia and he’s gambling the west won’t attack targets inside Russia as that’s truly the west initiating war against Russia which obviates US and NATO policy of being defensive in nature.
Theoretically, we could do whatever we wanted in Ukraine territory and that’s fair game but one inch into Russia and they hold the high ground.
The Hunt for Red October was fiction. We have known the location of every boomer since the 60s. We have known how many launchable tubes they have before they leave port. Their navy is a joke.
How long do you think it takes? Do you know how long it takes to spin up a Russian SSBN Tube? Do you know how many times russdian nukes have been in the Gulf?
Did you know they had an issue with one of their boomers so bad they had to surface a month ago?
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