Sam J.: “…there will be a counter to any tactic and there will never be the magic solution…” The latest thing is to put active explosive armor on the tanks but…you can’t have infantry to protect the tanks if they are exploding. If I remember correctly Hezbollah was using lots of RPG combined with crew machine guns. If troops came up, machine gun, if tanks, RPG. Combined with deep tunnels they could pop up from then scoot the Israelis got their asses handed to them. In...
Sam J.: Via Vox Day. Interview with two of Frances health officials, or former health officials. “France’s long-time vaccine policy chief: Covid policy is “completely stupid” and “unethical”" https://www.ukcolumn.org /video/frances-long-time -vaccine-policy-chief-co vid-policy-is-completely -stupid-and-unethical The people responsible for this are so far into it I don’t think they can stop. I expect they will release some sort of really catastrophically deadly...
lucklucky: The origins… https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Decima_Flottiglia_ MAS
Kgaard: Good piece. I just wish he wouldn’t have named his kid Aidan. Dumb name. I had similar challenges coming from a top public high school in the Pittsburgh suburbs years ago. There is no hook … no angle. So you don’t get into the ivy leagues …
Harry Jones: There are people who just shouldn’t be trusted. My policy has been to get those people out of my life wherever possible. They don’t always willingly leave me alone. When public trust in a government fails, what happens next? Does the system self correct by replacing bad people with good people? That’s how democracy was supposed to work. The democratic process is plan A.
Freddo: Operation Fear needs to continue at least until the Democrats have managed to pass their 3.5T slush fund. On the other hand, if I was a believer in conspiracy theories, I’d prefer that the global financial elites use Corona as an excuse for their shenanigans. I’d hate to see them engineer a war in Ukraine or Taiwan for that purpose.
Gavin Longmuir: Jim: “To end the Pandemic, we must get everyone fully vaccinated.” What pandemic? Not so long ago, English authorities quietly slipped into one of their reports that Covid was then the 19th-largest cause of death there. If we believe the PCR tests, large numbers of people have already caught the virus and their bodies have fought it off naturally, leaving them with strong natural immunity to the disease. Tens of millions of people are already better than vaccinated. The only...
Jim: I feel that almost every vaccine-skeptic would be well-convinced by a thorough purge of the United States Government, the MainStream Media, and the Fortune 500, a redone Presidential election, the total collapse of Wall Street, a judiciously executed Detroitification of Silicon Valley, a second 9/11 Commission, an end to warrantless wiretapping and government surveillance, an end to warrantless “data collection” and corporate surveillance, rededicating the FBI and its many wonderful men and women to...
Jim: I trust this man to tell us the truth about 9/11.
Jim: What higher education? Haven’t heard of it. Sounds fake.
David Muellenhoff: If I recall correctly, the guy (or a fictional analogue) ends up being a significant character in Martin McPhillips’ Corpse in Armor, an enjoyable thriller from an unusual angle.
Goober: Torpedo boats of the Jeune École school of thought were supposed to obsolete all large naval vessels, as well, and yet Missouri fired war shots in 1991, still there. Torpedo boat destroyer (later just shortened to “destroyer”) screens countered the threat, and left any “new school” nation without capital ships essentially defenseless against a nation that did. Warfare history has been a laundry list of “complete game changers” that were supposed to...
VXXC: Kerik’s only distrustful move is getting a guy to “illegally” work on his porch. You left out the good record at Riker’s Island, i.e. attacks down. As for his “weird career path,” yes, he’s a doer, not a tester; he does. He did not do cursum scholarium, the course of scholars. One thing he did do then had to walk away from was the Iraqi PD, as that is too much for the toughest American cop. Long story, but Iraqi PD was minor stuff. Any criminal detective...
Adar: When speaking of “man-portable̶ 1; they are not speaking of ONE man carrying the entire weapon or apparatus. They are talking of a weapon that can be broken down into pieces to reassemble each time it’s moved. Davy Crockett, too, even as deadly as it was [all nukes must be thought of deadly], probably would take out at one instance only several tanks of a Soviet tank battalion deployed.
Sam J.: “SEALs as a unit that should not exist” I’m listening to the Jocko interview and now I understand why they shouldn’t exist. Other units had the capability, but it looks like the people at the top just did not want these crazy deranged warrior-type people. Szopen, https://www.wykop.pl/cdn /c3201142/comment_BvHZAO 5nH0utf7KQK55EGZsB8gEaDE sa,w400.jpg They look bad ass!
Hoyos: Read this guy’s Wikipedia page. He has lived a wild life. Like, his career has the weirdest structure.
VXXC: Albion is correct on all points. I mentioned the Longbow to refute the legend, the hammers in the muck did most of the killing, interestingly in recent film “The King” this is shown, along with the truth that the French dismounted. “As for active defense systems, fire three missiles at the same tank, and at least one will get through.” McChuck is correct. In fact, this is the practice now of, say, Hezbollah vs Israeli Merkava, one of the harder tanks to kill out there. So...
Isegoria: I was surprised the find that I’d only mentioned the Davy Crockett once, in passing, here. The Davy Crockett was the smallest and lightest nuclear weapon ever deployed by the U.S. military: The W54 warhead used on the Davy Crockett weighed just 51 pounds and was the smallest and lightest fission bomb (implosion type) ever deployed by the United States, with a variable explosive yield of 0.01 kilotons (equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, or two to four times as powerful as the ammonium nitrate...
Slovenian Guest: When reading the headline I thought this would be referring to the nuclear Davy Crockett tactical recoilless gun mounted to a Jeep, which had an effective firing range of 2 miles (or 4 km) with a 20-ton blast yield. You really can’t counter that. The Taliban must dream of this! :)
McChuck: Man portable missiles (Javelin) still defeat any known armor. As for active defense systems, fire three missiles at the same tank, and at least one will get through. The Tom Clancy story was describing the Jeep mounted TOW anti-tank missile. It was not man portable, but that’s why it was mounted on a Jeep that could (more or less) hide behind any tree or bush. The Soviet counter to it was to ignore the losses and drive forward until they got into machine gun range. (Sort of like Grant in...
