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My (paternal) Grandfather was one of the Prosecutors for the Japanese War Crime trials. I am not downplaying the actions of the Japanese in WW2, they committed numerous atrocities. However looking at the actions side by side, I believe German actions as a state were entirely more horrific...

Iran was more like 1 for Russia 9 for the bunkers. I suspect US National intelligence was focused on the ballistic missiles and payloads.

I must have missed the Japanese running mass extermination camps across Asia? Yes there where some nasty crimes committed by Imperial Japanese forces, but but they where not running a genocidal extermination program.

That is simply the British Para in you coming out. Yemen is fairly minor in the grand scheme of history. It doesn’t have the same issues over history that the majority of the ME does.

Sex Panther. 60% of the time, it works every time…

I think that can depend on a number of factors. Most of the US Elected Officials would much rather revert to something like Trump 45 methodologies. A lot of things here are not roses. Most understand fair is in the eyes of the beholder, and many are SOL with the current situation. Very few...

Slights to our pride, real or imagined, have been the genesis of many American Expeditions.

And then what does the world do then. I would suggest that if the Houthi go kinetic again, with the Iranians still interdicting the SoH, then the majority of the world is going to say F it - and go scorched earth on the Houthi and Iranians -- as then they really don’t have a lot of chips to...

Based on the verbiage - they suggest AD systems -- which last I looked the CAF was pretty minimalist on at this junction.

One can be the biggest and baddest on the block and still make errors that cost... I would not paint America through the years with the Trump 47 brush though. Agreed, the fact that no real theatre protection assets where moved into the area prior to hostilities is telling. Given that the H...

And when Trump is gone, you are still soaked in piss.

Both can be true. Albeit 25years is a little over the top for a land vehicle. IF you look at the Armored Vehicle losses in Ukraine -- some very interesting trends are noted. Western AFV (MBT, IFV’s, and LAV family included) from the 80’s on tend not to lose the crews, and even can survive...

Both can be true ;) I think there was an serious miscalculation on the levels of ordnance Iran had, and I also believe that POTUS chose to ignore the threat projected.

It has become painfully clear that very few people actually understood the depth of reserves of Missiles, SUAS etc that Iran had squirreled away for a rainy day. As well as what low levels that both storage and release authority was spread out to. I know a few folks who have spend time...

That is the 400B dollar question. The IRGC isn’t the only issue, frankly the IRGC at this point is more akin to a business front for criminal organization than a guardian of the revolution. The Clerics also have a vote and while Iranian fundamentalism is in decline, one doesn’t want to run...

I trust Palantir about as far as I can throw them, while covering them with a weapon… While I think they have a good edge in certain fields, they are a data aggregator, and will take everything they can get.

It also signals to the Arabs that maybe getting rid of the Persian problem for once and for all may be a better option. The first OPEC state to figure out a deal with China to deal with Iran will be the next regional power. Other than the Russian link with Iran currently, there are a lot...

Including in his case leading an Infantry Company— which the Army fixed in short order. I swear half (well it is all dumb) the dumb shit he does is to prove to the Army he shouldn’t have been relieved as a field grade.

yeah the old goal was J staff work, or cross pollination in G/S1-8 slots, as well as environmental SME’s.

I blame Eve ;) The ME post WW2 was quite frankly (and arguably still is) a shit show. It is impossible without writing pages and pages of history to explain all the twists and turns. BUT in Lebanon the Israeli invasion in 1982 kicked the (until then) fairly docile Shia in Lebanon into...