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To: Bookshelf; allendale
Ships, tracked vehicles and stationary artillery are as obsolete as the sling.

I agree that stationary artillery is obsolete. I believe that ground warfare employed by Russia has not adapted to the high tech arena. However, I do not believe that surface ships are obsolete.

My hope is that Navy doctrine, strategies and tactics are being updated to reflect the high tech threat.

I believe that the scientists and engineers that design and develop high tech offensive weapons can also design and develop high tech defensive weapons capable of neutralizing the offensive weapons.

Suppose that the Space Command (founded under President Trump) has a primary mission of destroying or disabling all enemy satellites within 48 hours of a declaration of war. The enemy can't hit what they can't find.

If the surface navy ever becomes obsolete, then the army and marine corps can transfer to the Department of Homeland Security since they will have no way to get to the battle.

91 posted on 05/13/2022 10:48:46 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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To: FtrPilot

The Navy has an inordinate faith in defensive weapons such as lasers which have not been tested in true combat scenarios against technologically competent opponents. During the next five years the Navy will do all it can to convince Congress that those defensive weapons justify huge allocations for more surface combatants. The Army no doubt will be seeking big allocations for helicopters and armored vehicles. Wonder how many of the Congressional representatives would want their children to crew those ships, tanks or helicopters.


92 posted on 05/13/2022 11:04:28 AM PDT by allendale
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To: FtrPilot

You make an excellent point regarding the use of satellites. However, and I don’t think this is telling tales out of school, during the Cold War the US service was tracking every Soviet naval vessel at a site... I think it is probably tracking every potential enemy vessel now. Regarding the destruction of a nation’s satellites, it would have to be followed by an attack a la Pearl Harbor. However, even then the counter-attack could be devastating. Thus, I don’t look for such an event in my lifetime. However, I can see something stupid like Putin using tactical nuclear weapons in a ‘fit of rage.’ How the Western nations would respond to that is still a question. I conclude that should warfare continue its dreadful spiral that robotics will be an essential element of future action twenty years from now, and robots will eventually take the place of humans in uniform.


97 posted on 05/13/2022 1:00:26 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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