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After the first Gulf War there were a LOT of Soviet Army officers glad they never had to face Germans, on the defensive, in their own country, while armed with American weapons.

The professionals knew that their hardware wasn't as good as ours, that their troops weren't trained as well, and wouldn't as motivated.

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After the first Gulf War there were a LOT of Soviet Army officers glad they never had to face Germans, on the defensive, in their own country, while armed with American weapons.

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Yes, as I recall the Iraqi Army was believed (by some) to be a formidable force; but, they collapsed immediately when, in the first 15 minutes of Desert Storm their communications and control were demolished, and their "Command" was on the run.

However, since this is the Q thread, I want to return to Luttwak for a moment.

Luttwak was very connected to U.S. strategic thinking, and he was an expert in Game Theory, which he claimed was the basis or the grand strategy I described previously, of setting up the U.S./Brit front lines to briefly delay the hypothetical invasion of 50K (iirc) Soviet tanks...but then to LOSE.

It was believed that if they were strong enough to last a few weeks or more, then European Parliaments would have time to get involved and SURRENDER, rather than face the near-certainty of tactical nukes on their soil (an exchange of which would necessarily be initiated by the U.S., being unwilling to match the massive Soviet land forces facing across the Cold War divide, with direct lines of resupply etc.).

His book, Strategy, was my initial introduction to Game Theory, and I tried in vain to use it to interpret Q's numerous references to "Game Theory."

But that was 2020.

Now, on the cusp of 2024, I think I understand Q's repeated "Game Theory" comments as meaning: If the opposition were willing to fire off everything they had (Covid, stolen election, lawfare, censorship) then our first lines of defense would need to collapse, that being the only way White Hats would be able to fire the weapons actually needed to defeat the enemy, before MAGA World could be cajoled into a permanently bad position from which it would be much more difficult to escape.

So, if this interpretation is correct, the question is: What are the equivalent of tactical nukes that our side is getting ready to set off?