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FDR traveled close to the active theaters in WWII but never went to a city under seige like Kyiv.

Sun Tzu sas, “Strategy without tactic is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." I had always heard this as: Strategy without tactics is Winston Churchill dropping the ANZACs at Gallipollii or the Anzio landings. Tactics without strategy is the Wehrmacht constantly punching holes into the Red Army to limited long term effect without the ability to form an effective defense because Hitler's no retreats orders made it impossible to form a cohesive defensive front. I have also heard this as tactics without strategy is pointless and strategy without tactics is bloodyminded.

This is tomorrow's first podcast of the day for me. My usual on weekends, is to do the honey do projects and listen to podcasts that I wish I was doing them myself. I learn alot. Mostly about envy :--). https://warontherocks.com/2023/02/russias-winter-offensive/

They seem to like JASSM ER more and more and the anti-ship variant seems to work well when dropped out of a C-130 or C-17 in pallets.

check this out. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-ramps-up-jassm-work-begins-on-replacement/ The amount of "no comments" in that article is telling.

This could well be his undoing

The entire battle plan for our defeating China is based on waves of JASSM with each missile destroying 1 Chinese warship a piece.

We definitely need our JASSMs for China

The bigger danger is China but yes, get them some ATACMS and some older AC like F-16s. We are going to need all our 5th gens and our access denial weapons for the onslaught on Taiwan coming as soon as this summer.

well ok

Was listening to something very interesting on the armor donation from the NATO and EU members today. The experts note that Ukraine has plenty of the Soviet pattern tanks but needs the superior western models in i order to win. Russia with their crap tanks and crap training (e.g., they never use camouflage) and with their crappy radio security they will be shattered once Ukraine gets on the offensive.

Collective security ftw

Mmmkay

Tucker Carlson wants this sort of treatment for our kids. Not his kids mind you. He's special because God gave him fishstick money.

this is not good China is most of the issue here

They could rebuild a version of Tiger Stadium and I'd be happy.

"Low IQ plastic surgery disaster" is an interesting hill for them to die on.

Clown company.

So, despite all the soft edges. Its a business owned by scum.

DC Police Department police your own

Throw the book at this guy and bury him under the prison

Yeah, the weird people who didn't like H.W. Bush in the run up to that NH primary in 1992 freaked me out. There were a lot of them and they were soooo passionate. A lot of the talk focused on things like the Khazar Jews of central Asia who were apparently satanists and also that H.W. Bush didn't want to declare war on Vietnam to get our POW/MIA out. That latter item was brought home to me the other day by DIRECTV showing of the very excellent low-budget "Uncommon Valor" (Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Randal "Tex" Cobb, Patrick Swayze, et.al., ) in which the plot revolves around there being a number of POWs left in SE Asia that had to be found and recovered. I loved the movie but the politics of that film were troglodyte in the extreme.

So report from my son. He's bored with campus closed down. He went to Frankenmouth for lunch today because all his buddies who live in state headed home and the remaining gang didn't want to do anything too overtly fun in the wake of this. He happens to be studying German so he had chicken schnitzel and marveled at the lack of German anywhere in frankenmuth. RE: Monday night Per him, once the cops moved off to the East from the first two shooting sites, he was like "whats the big deal?" Told this to some colleagues who 1. asked why he isn't courting some girl who is despondent? and 2. asked is he ready to join the military if he is that blase about mortal violence within a block of his location? I know better about #2. He was stressed for sure.

I had super slow trip to North Carolina from DC by rail that took an extra 8 hours because the ground under the tracks were wet. That's not acceptable. But, because Amtrak is a toy and not meant to be reliable human transportation its allowed. The NE corridor is reliable. I'm told its reliable in some other places as well.