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Other than older M-1 tanks, I don't think we have anything else other than M-48 and M-60 gate guards. I hope we've already been training a Ukrainian M-1 cadre.
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Not Abrams, but still interesting. It's not clear if they're training in the UK currently.Other than older M-1 tanks, I don't think we have anything else other than M-48 and M-60 gate guards. I hope we've already been training a Ukrainian M-1 cadre.
Besides, isn't the .M1 Abrams kind of long in the tooth these days? And don't we have a stockpile of them out of service as they're considered unsurvivable on a modern battlefield?
Hardly. Perhaps the first gen M1 and M1 IP might be lesser than other M1 models given the 105mm M68 main gun but once you hit the M1A1 with the 120mm gun or the M1A2 which finally had a fire control system better than the M60A3 TTS, any of them, one for one, are the finest tank in the world. With the Israeli active defense systm and DU armor layered into the composite armor it will remain viable, when properly employed, for decades to come. Its biggest weakness is the fact that the turbine has an obscene fuel appetite. I personally would want to explore a replacement diesel power pack but I'm not SecDef.Besides, isn't the .M1 Abrams kind of long in the tooth these days? And don't we have a stockpile of them out of service as they're considered unsurvivable on a modern battlefield?
Never mind the academic claptrap. The pertinent perspective on Putin, Stalin, Hitler, et al, is encapsulated in Nineteen Eighty Four.
A necessary read for any responsible citizen of a democratic society.
Read it, may have been in Jr High School at the time. Mike Harrington's work on democratic Socialism along with Orwell left me a leftist but with a distrust of authoritarians of all kinds.Thanks for the tip. Added to my list.
My PoliSci prof at university was a survivor of a Russian shtetl upbringing, conscription in the Red Army, German POW camp, Dachau, and the Israeli war of independence, with the scars and tattoos to prove it. We spent half a semester on Orwell and totalitarianism. If you haven't already, add Eric Hoffer's The True Believer to your list. Another necessary asset in today's world.
Can anyone think of a major ground war that has been won without control of the air since about 1920?
On a different angle on the problems in Russia.
Diem Bien Phu, but that was more a major battle that actually ended the conflcit.Can anyone think of a major ground war that has been won without control of the air since about 1920?
If one was to examine all the major battles during the Vietnam War militarily, the US won hands down, (la Drang Valley, Khe Sanh, Tet and the Easter Offensive). As you say "restraints," make that "political restraints" were placed on the US military. Bumbling by politicians and some military leaders along with supporting an extremely corrupt South Vietnam government didn't help matters. During the whole time The US had almost complete control of the air over North and South Vietnam until the cease fire and withdraw in 1973. Saigon fell 2 years later.The Vietnamese pulled it off against America, but the terrain fought-over was too different to make that a useful comparison, and of course the restraints America imposed upon itself too.
There are natural causes in Russia?Natural causes most likely
1. You failed. Therefore it is only "natural" that this will cause a Vodka induced accident whilst cleaning a gun.There are natural causes in Russia?
Can anyone think of a major ground war that has been won without control of the air since about 1920?
Right on! My high school removed civics from the college prep curriculum, retaining it for vocational and "social arts" courses. Instead, we got a civics course labeled US History, with a thin smattering of history (which we'd just had in 8th grade) heavily weighted with political evolution of citizenship, rights and responsibilities, structures of government, and the judiciary system, presented in the light of the controversies that had shaped all these over time. We held town meetings, ran for office, elected officials, and had actual lawyers and judges come to class to hold court and "try cases". Today's kids don't get that experience, which is why we are where we are.Personally, I bemoan the lack of civics education in American schools (I'm part of the last few cohorts of American high-school students with a civics class being a graduation requirement.),
Gotta check that out. Thanks!Mike Harrington's work on democratic Socialism
And the family, as well as the miscreant, pays the price. "Nits grow into lice" and "the dead tell no tales".1. You failed. Therefore it is only "natural" that this will cause a Vodka induced accident whilst cleaning a gun.
2 and so on are the same but with other "natural" events leading to the same conclusion.