Better is not always better. “There are several problems with these assertions. Yes, the Tiger tank was formidable in terms of armor and firepower. Yet its weight, fuel consumption, maintenance burden, and mechanical unreliability rendered it strategically inferior” https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-allied-technological
War is more complicated than shown in movies. “Victory, then, is not always the annihilation of enemy forces—it is the collapse of the enemy’s will to resist.” https://mwi.westpoint.edu/a-clausewitzian-lens-on-modern-urban-warfare/
I love this Wired series.
This topic has always fascinated me. ““This mental image that everyone has, that we don’t trade with our enemies during war, is actually an artifact of the world without any neutral rights,” Grinberg says. “Once we develop neutral rights, all… Read More »Why countries trade with each other while fighting
Simple as this. “Never repeat in the clear the identical text of a message once sent in cryptographic form, or repeat in cryptographic form the text of a message once sent in the clear. Anything which will enable an alert… Read More »“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone.” Why?
Why having one strong leader is always bad in the end. “When you have a leader that strong, it creates a lot of big risks for a country — even one as large, productive, and technologically advanced as China. These… Read More »Xi Jinping is the main thing holding China back
Will status quo prevail or not? “If the expected destruction from war rises faster than the value of controlling Taiwan, that widens the bracket, creating more and more buffer room for the status quo. Some of you will recognize this… Read More »The prospects for war with China: Why I see a serious chance of World War III in the next decade
Nuclear weapons are still an issue. “Do we view Hitler’s apocalyptic attitude as a singular historical anomaly? I’d like to believe that, but I can’t. Mao Zedong let tens of millions of his people die in a famine of his… Read More »We still haven’t solved the Nuclear Age
Article explaining why China is likely to start WWIII. “People who have taken a game theory class will immediately see that the way I’ve set this game up, what happens is that China attacks Taiwan AND attacks U.S. bases, and… Read More »Game Theory and WWIII
This is not only US problem but also Europe’s. “[In a war game of a Taiwan invasion], Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days…And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild,… Read More »Uh, guys, we really should think about spending more on defense