The non-war obsessed normies are something to behold, that's for sure. Most probably the GP has never looked at the FPV videos coming out of Ukraine, or maybe he somehow thinks that US soldiers are Terminator-like machines who would have nothing to fear from aerial drones.
whooptie doo, you're special and those who disagree with you are normies. that doesn't make a good argument, neither does misrepresenting what I said. and all your speculation about me there is wrong (your argument shouldn't be about me but about the topic anyways?).
I'm sure US troops will be plenty terrified, and there will be lots of casualties, you just made that argument on my behalf so you could have something to win. The amount of fear or the level of sheer human carnage on either side does not affect the outcome. Like I said in my post, if these factors affect political will in the US, Iran will win, if not then US military will not take very long, despite the costs, to achieve victory. It will not be defeated on grounds of "drones", terrain, Iran being well prepared, or oil prices.
You have to be a normie to believe that a ground operation as currently envisaged by the US political leaders would be anything else but a suicide mission. This is not about “winning arguments on the internet” or some such, because in the end these arguments do not matter, it’s a basic matter of not sending men to die in a suicide mission.
Unless this being a suicide mission isn’t the stated goal of the current US political leaders, but that’s another discussion.
you have a broad definition of what a suicide mission is. Are you saying only US soldiers will die? Was Normandy a suicide mission? Does the US not have superior air-power, even though Iranians have more soldiers and home field advantage?
I never claimed it won't be carnage or that casualties would be low. And btw, "normie" is not the insult you think it is, it only serves your ego.
We can talk about the strategic goals, but strategy isn't what makes a mission "sucidie", it's when the only outcome of the mission is everyone involved will die that you call it a suicide mission. If there is a reasonable chance that a significant number of troops won't die, it isn't "suicide".
Cuba is a relatively small island, and (by area) it's mostly agrarian. Conventional bombing campaign on the industrial and urban centres would send them back to the Iron Age in a matter of days. Which is why this whole scenario is absurd, Cuban leaders aren't about to start a war.
> USAF B-52H refueling from a KC-135 tanker on its way to strike Iran.
with emphasis on "on its way", so not "over" Iran. So not sure your link proves your original point (which, if I understood right, was that these Americans are flying these bombers over Iran itself).
It's also telling that the Americans haven't managed to gain their much desired air supremacy, lots of Dohuet fanboys in the US Military, hopefully this war will bring their Air Power ambitions a notch or two down (even though I have my doubts).
Gee, you guys really couldn’t infer what the picture means and had to rely on words? The B-52 is a high-altitude aircraft, a truck-mounted SAM couldn’t hit it, you’d need at least something like a Pantsir(Buk is more realistic, but Pantsir had hit airliner). It implies the US has combat air patrol in the area, ready to conduct SEAD/DEAD while B52 dumps its short range JDAM.
> People dont care (because we have also made a mockery of security as well) -
They will start caring when a security bug on one of their phone's apps (or on the phone's software itself) empties their savings accounts. At that point the law officials/the Government might also start to care.
Mt. Gox, FTX, and an ocean of crypto wallet exploits.
This has already happened, and unlike traditional banks, there is no "customer service" to call with a shot at reversing a transaction.
It already happens to regular businesses, and on a regular basis: from credit card skimmers to major hacks, Home Depot springs to mind, along with numerous other ones that just dont even warrant the attention.
Meanwhile, yet another supply chain attack yesterday.
Security exists in most companies to protect management and give them a head to hang when the shit hits the fan (not IF, when). It's a cost center and is getting butchered right now in many orgs (we haven't had a problem why bother).
There's not that much about art and craft but about knowing that less is more and that adding complexity to a thing (almost any thing) will only bring greater troubles down the road. We've had to learn this as an industry for how long now?, I'd say 70 years, give or take (I've only been a professional programmer for about 20 years, if that counts), so a new methodology coming in and saying that there is indeed a silver bullet might not be that well-received.
They (the Americans) should have also marked the schools on said military maps of theirs, and hence they could have made a value judgment of "is it worth killing some IRGC men in the middle of nowhere vs. the international backslash of killing school-going children?". It looks like they most probably didn't do that, probably because their "advanced" AI systems didn't bother with marking schools on their military maps.
A spreadsheet editor with at most a couple of hundred MBs in size that can compete against Excel, for example. While also not eating from RAM resources. The same goes for a new browser and a new browser engine, it's time for Chrome to have a real competitor, it has become a mess. I can of other such examples, but these are the 2 biggest ones.
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