Although intercept rate is down I think the point still stands
The American way of war has always leveraged our outsize GDP to spend more than other nations so…while we may be spending more raw dollars to knock down missiles/drones who can handle it via a vis national budget more - Iran or U.S.?
4) Skip over what we are doing in the realm of CUAS/air defense
5) Avoid the U.S.’s economic advantage and preferred moderately priced toy goes brr way of war
5) Forget that all this destruction…has still locked the front and not enabled much of anything
@uticaeric.bsky.social had always mentioned that Great Power Competition is dead.
IMO it’s not dead, we’ve just capitulated.
Listen to theory
TNSR had a great podcast that would in someways support this
Trade in wartime gets read
Listen to theory
TNSR had a great podcast that would in someways support this
Trade in wartime gets read
Though even in our capitulation we’re still creating conditions that someone will have to deal with in the future as the starting point for our re-entry
Empress Elizabeth of Russia dying in 1762 and fracturing the anti-Prussian alliance type moment
@sodrock.bsky.social
I like how these articles commonly
1) Avoid analyzing overarching political factors that perhaps influence military strategy and lessons learning
2) How rare any non-wartime military innovates faster than a wartime military
3) Want more money for more things with no mechanism to get it
1/2
Read Theory - The City on a Hill is also a warning
Read Theory
Armies going into WWI weren’t ignorant of the military developments appearing from the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, or the Balkan Wars - rather they were struggling with often contradictory observations that still pointed to the same unsolvable reality. Big war = big casualties