Bearstronaut

Have you talked to Steve about getting this sold at the BF store? That's a lot of work on your part and I'd happily pay ten or fifteen bucks for this battlepack.

@Bearstronaut: 😂😂😂
Indeed, I have asked BF, if there was the possibility to give support without any financial interest. The result was: no reaction - but this is ok👍🏻
At the moment, this Pack is like a start up = good potential with no finished product. So, now it is my turn to provide a finished product of high quality😎
Regards 
Mr.X 

Have you talked to Steve about getting this sold at the BF store? That's a lot of work on your part and I'd happily pay ten or fifteen bucks for this battlepack.

I have warm and fuzzy memories of being considered a Cold War relict because I was profoundly suspicious of anyone working for RT.

I don' know if we ever got a formal list of which American politicians were receiving Russian bribe money channeled to them through the NRA. Some politicians really shouldn't be receiving regular security briefings.

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.

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.

I completely agree. Until Ukraine starts carpet bombing Russian cities this conversation is utterly irrelevant. Ukraine isn't -and most likely won't- deliberately killing Russian civilians.

We can easily agree to disagree. A nation which is responsible for killing 6 Mio civilians in Poland alone, not to mention Belorussia, Ukraine and the rest of Europe and deliberately supported the regime with using slave workers everywhere for everyone to see until 1945 has no right to moan about 600k civilian casualties due to collateral damage by the allied strategic bombing campaign. They got what they deserved. They started it, they had to carry the consequences.

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.

Russia terror bombs Ukraine for over a year
 

 
Moscow gets hit by a handful of small drones causing limited damage and no reported casualties. 
OMFG don't they know the allied terror bombings were a failure!!!

 

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.

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.

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

And even then you have to tune the details just right. There are several countries that set their thresholds for getting sets in Parliament too low, and they wind up with tiny parties elected and run by crazy people playing kingmaker in weird coalitions.

An excellent example is the relationship between Britain and Germany in the lead up with WW1.  By all rights: diplomatic, economic and political Germany and Britain should have been allies in WW1; however, the Kaisers very ill advised pursuit of naval parity with Britain led to a costly arms race that shaped relations between these two nations.  
Arms races can be the spark that trigger conflict moving into a violent collision stage, but “war” is not binary, it is a process on a spectrum.  Arms races can be considered preliminary moves or shaping that may or may not lead to open warfare.  The counter example is the Cold War where the US effectively won the conflict without direct military collision by forcing their opponent to spend more economy could sustain.  Here the arms race was the war.  
As to the current situation with China, the issue is less arms race and more one of “who is willing to sacrifice?”  China is hungry, aggressive and smart (as opposed to Russia who only had the first two).  The US is highly divided, entitled and very self absorbed.  It is also extremely powerful and rich but whether it can focus that power and will remains the central unanswered question of the early 21st century.  I do not think an arms race will doom the US and China into a conflagration, but it definitely is part of the intensification of competition between these two powers.  The biggest threat to the West right now is not Chinese arms, it is US apathy versus extremism.

The A-10 requires a permissive environment to operate in successfully. In a contested environment, it's a death trap.

It would also be no surprise to me if UA pilots had started training months ago and it was only announced because some indication got out that it was happening.

Nah, we just take a dim view of people using deadly nerve agents in one of our cities. Bang out of line.   
Edit: by which I mean the average Brit probably didn't have much of an opinion on Putin. After that they did, and it wasn't a good one. 

I think it's sufficiently certain that the benefits of attempting such a thing would have to be firstly cast-iron guaranteed (which the history of "marches on Moscow" doesn't seem to encourage optimism for) and, secondly, worth the risk. I suspect that "those in charge" will consider that a long-term containment of Moscow will be "enough" and that the chances of actually forcing an unconditional surrender on Russia are so slender, and the cost of attempting it so high as to make the non-zero risk of total annihilation unacceptable. 

I wish I discovered CM during COVID Lockdown when I was "Working" from home! 

Welcome to the CM addicts self-help forum. If you have questions or need help with anything this is the place to ask. 

Seeking to take out AD is probably a decent strategy to be fair.

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.

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.