Bearstronaut

Oh my god it's so very '80s.

A lot of the competent pre-war western trained NCOs are likely dead, wounded, or psychologically burnt out at this point.

First time I ever saw RT was in a hotel room in Seoul in 2012. I was flipping channels on the TV and was surprised to hear English so I watched it for about an hour before going out to the bars. It was comically anti-American and I had a good laugh while pre-gaming some soju in my room.

Graham is a weasel but he's also not an idiot. He spent over 30 years in the Air Force and Air Force Reserves and was on the Armed Forces Committee from 2003 to 2019. He's always been a foreign policy hawk and I think Zelensky probably told him the truth about their upcoming offensive.

Yamamoto's obsession with the US carrier force after the raid led to the badly planned Midway operation and the destruction of most of the Kido Butai.

The Doolittle Raid didn't make much sense and did negligible damage but it rattled the Japanese public. I sense that this was done for a similar reason.

Started this the other night. I really enjoyed that first mission. Had a couple successful ambushes and was ambushed in turn myself. One of my bazooka teams finished the scenario with 18 kills. Those guys were a couple of little Terminators.

Anyone play any of the Witcher games? Looks a lot like the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Redania.

There won't be any march on Moscow. That WILL end in nuclear warfare. The best we can really hope for is the collapse and routing of the Russian military in Ukraine and then the addition of the Ukrainians into NATO.

I love me some Combat Mission but I work as an intel analyst so some days after work I don't really wanna think about military stuff and just prefer to chop up Mongols with a samurai sword.

Nah, CM is a computer only game. I use my PS5 for other games.

I got CMBN back in 2016 and since then I have slowly bought the entire catalogue of games. I have my PS5 that I enjoy but I always end up coming back to Combat Mission. There is simply nothing else like it.

They do one day of training per year that consists of showing up to simulate a call-up of the reserves. I used to see them walking around Seoul sometimes in outdated camo pattern uniforms with hair wildly out of regulation.

LOL, what?

A line from the US Army's Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer is "Officers of my unit will have maximum time to accomplish their duties: they will not have to accomplish mine." Take of that what you will.

I don't know when the Ukrainian counter-offensive will kick off but I wouldn't put too much stock in what Zelensky has to say about it. The Ukrainians have to maintain OPSEC so it's not like Zelensky is gonna go around saying "Our forces are fully ready and the offensive is imminent."

A poorly maintained or non-functioning early warning ballistic missile early warning system in a paranoid and belligerent country like Russia is highly ominous.

There are drafted Ukrainian soldiers as well as volunteers. Some people have to be compelled to fight, even in an existential war such as the one Ukraine is currently fighting. All the major Allied powers had conscription in WW2, even the USSR who were facing genocide and annihilation. The Red Army had quite draconian disciplinary measures as well. The fact the Ukraine needs to resort to conscription to fill the ranks doesn't make them any less worthy of support.

I guess a false flag is possible but I don't see why they would do it this way. It makes Russian air defense look incredibly impotent/incompetent.

God, that's some really evil, dystopian s**t.

Line of Actual Control - Wikipedia

The Russian organization Gulagu conducted interviews with two former Wagner commanders detailing repeated war crimes and brutal treatment of their own men. One talks about shooting children and the other mentions executing any civilians found in an occupied area. Full on Einsatzgruppen stuff. The full interview is available on YouTube but as of yet I don't think anyone has translated the entire thing. I've found some translated snippets on Twitter however.

35Ts are immensely useful to the Army. Sure, a lot of their garrison duties could be done by civilians, but almost every single one of those civilians is a former 35T. In the field, forget about it. You aren't going to have middle aged civilian contractors out working on classified systems with a maneuver brigade during combat operations. As someone who used the systems the 35Ts maintained, they were some of the most important people out there. Also, not everyone joins the military to kick in doors and shoot people in the face. I did nerd stuff too but I was no less a soldier than any 11B. I had to meet the same standards of behavior and physical ability that they did.

We came really close to war last September. A Russian SU-27 attempted to shoot down a British Rivet Joint over the Black Sea but the missile malfunctioned. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/world/europe/russian-jet-british-spy-plane.html?smid=tw-share

FWIW the US military LOVES Microsoft Office.