[Retain Mike]

War should become an even more unhappy experience than in the past. Winston Churchill who fought in India, Sudan and South Africa had this to say, “War, which used to be cruel and magnificent, has now become cruel and squalid. In fact, it has been completely spoilt. It is all the fault of democracy and science. From the moment that either of these meddlers and muddlers was allowed to take part in actual fighting, the doom of war was sealed. Instead of a small number of well-trained professionals championing their country’s cause with ancient weapons and a beautiful intricacy of archaic manoeuvre, sustained at every moment by the applause of their nation, we now have entire populations, including even women and children, pitted against one another in brutish mutual extermination, and only a set of blear-eyed clerks left to add up the butcher’s bill. From the moment democracy was admitted to, or rather forced itself upon the battlefield, war ceased to be a gentleman’s game. To hell with it!”

[DIRTYSECRET]

Article appears complicated. Not an easy read.

Ukraine is flat-easy to attack. Taiwan. Start with air assaults and finding a way to take out communications, satellites and cell towers. Amphibious attacks are too vulnerable.

Something tells me a blockade will start it up. Taiwan has the money and technology to fight. China can waste a million men and it won’t matter. Might as well get it over with.

[Uncle Miltie]

I was reflecting on the Indian American Wars, and how the norm of civilizations clashing is usually throughout history Total War, in which ALL assets of either side are attacked, including women, children, infrastructure, philosophies, economies, etc.

This is horrifying, of course, but sadly completely normal. In WWII we firebombed Dresden and Tokyo and many others, incinerating hundreds of thousands to millions of “innocent” civilians.

This is the way of man. Would that it were not. But don’t go and get all appalled when starting a war (Germany, Japan, hamass) to find that it sucks on an unimaginable scale and then whine about it. 12% of Germans died and 4% of Japanese in WWII. In comparison, the whiny little brats supporting hamass are sure that it’s “genocide” when a mere 2.5% (according to hamass) have died in the war they started by raping little babies, girls and women so hard they broke their pelvises before shooting them dead in the vagina.

[Leaning Right]

Churchill had a way with words. But war was never much of a “gentleman’s game”. Armies on the march ravaged the countryside. And woe to some civilian who objected to his chickens being stolen.

After a successful battle a medieval commander might yell “cry havoc”, meaning his soldiers were now free to plunder, rape, and pillage.

Not very gentlemanly.

[kvanbrunt2]

Not to brag and i am not a real expert at this stuff but i can code up arduino chips and connect up RC chips for cars and boat operations so i could probably make some of these to fly in formation etc.