Posted on 03/02/2010 5:22:03 PM PST by neverdem
The next big set-piece battles will probably occur in the United States between the less urbanized areas and the more heavily urbanized areas ~ and will be exceptionally lethal when the nukes are cut loose.
Makes one think a bit differently about recent USSC Second Amendment casts... something to be said for the demise of the second in denser “blue” areas like DC and Cleveland if it could correspond to its strengthening in red areas everywhere else.
The past is prologue.
Lots of wars have been fought for less.
Good Hanson read.
Those old books, gathering dust these forty years, may need to be relocated and dusted off. Who could have prophesied in reality the seizure of the White House by the Alien Usurper?
Yep. Look up the War of Jenkin's Ear for a good example.
This is a most interesting article. However, I think what is overlooked is that much of the world is envious of wealth and power. Whenever “they” think they can defeat us militarily they will strike. Beside that what else could motivate them. Internal problems - start a war to take their population’s mind off their immediate problems. If the ChiComs have a great deal of internal unrest, the ICBMS will fly and their armies will march. It is interesting to speculate who their allies may be in such an event.
Another factor which will cause wars is access to and control of natural resources. As the world’s population increases, if they are not educated, there will be an enormous population pool to exploit for an unfortunate war.
Unfortunately, our present leadership is severely limited by ideology and perhaps intelligence. May God have mercy on our children and their children.
Good article. I think that Hansen and Keegan, whom he cites near the beginning of his article, may be our two best writers on the nature of war in the West.
I think the article is not about whether wars will be fought, but how. It’s been sortof commonly accepted that the grand and decisive winner-take-all sort of battle is obsolete. Replaced by the skirmish warfare we’ve been seeing lately... insurgency... terrorism.
But these things run cyclicly, and he is wondering I think if we aren’t going to turn a corner into a new age of big set-piece battles. Among other changes as technologies become cheaper and more homogenous.
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Was there a thesis to this other tan things change, stay the same, follow cycles and revolutionary change?
EMP wouldn’t destroy the military they have known about, and taken steps to eliminate, the EMP damage. On the other for example take Germany or France and give them an EMP from a sneak Iranian launch. Good luck mobilizing armored units when the civilians are clogging the roadways in search of food and/or shelter.
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Armageddon Now.
Should a few reckless states feel that nuclear war in an age of antiballistic missiles might be winnable, or that the consequences of mass death might be offset by perpetuity spent in a glorious collective paradise, then even the seemingly unimaginable—nuclear showdown—becomes imaginable.
He’s talking about Iran here.
Unless we use the few nukes left after they "downsize" that force too. But either way, if Hansen is right, we are screwed.
Not most military technology, which is designed to resist EMP. Has been every since we discovered the effect. Wouldn't do the civilian infrastructure any good though, and then we might win the first battle, and still lose the war. The civilian infrastructure ultimately supports the military too.
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