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For instance - building a complete shipyard in 6 months - that then start churning out ships.
Plus - the US cheated a bit and started gearing up for war 1-2 years before Pearl Harbor.
The figures you've got are simply wrong. I would recommend the acquisition of this one: IRIAF 2010.
Sure, it's 'old', but the way things are in Iran, it's still valid.
> If you were in charge of the IRIAF, what would you buy? And just as importantly, what would you keep and what would you scrap?
The C-in-C IRIAF can daydream about buying whatever he wants, including F-15Es. His problem is that it's not on him to decide: the IRGC has the final say in regards of all of Iranian armament acquisition, and the IRGC is not the least keen to let the IRIAF (or any other branch of the regular Iranian military) get anything new from abroad.
Add to this additional factors of geo-strategic nature (nicely listed here), and you've got the picture.
Elvis Presley was spotted on a faked e-Passport in a Dutch Airport in 2009. Would You Like To Know More?
As biometric data gets into more and more IDs we might see a fusion of these stories, a faked fingerprint used in a forged passport.
However this one says the are in full production... probably not the full story as based on the above http://www.businessinsider.com.au/russia-claims-t14-armata-tank-is-in-production-2016-3?r=US&IR=T
Machine reading is getting really good. There are a ton of people making voices you can get for free, find one you like, stick in on your phone, and anything that has been OCRed you can have read to you. I carry headphones with me wherever I go now and it's fantastic how much reading I get done.
>Long after-ward, talking one day with Eisenhower about the events that led up finally to the truce in Korea, I asked him what it was that brought the Communists into line. "Danger of an atomic war," he said with- out hesitation. "We told them we could not hold it to a limited war any longer if the Communists welched on a treaty of truce. They didn't want a full-scale war or an atomic attack. That kept them under some control."
https://www.amazon.com/First-Hand-Report-Story-Eisenhower-Administration/dp/B000PUN5AC
>Asked years later by Sherman Adams what had motivated China to negotiate a truce, Ike answered without a hesitation. "Danger of an atomic war", he said.
https://www.amazon.com/Eisenhower-White-House-Jim-Newton/dp/076792813X
Eisenhower and Dulles were both not shy to say they used nuclear blackmailing.
>The US has no record of opposing EU expansion
Reminds of the Alstom case and the book The American Trap: My battle to expose America's secret economic war against the rest of the world
https://www.amazon.com/American-Trap-Americas-economic-against/dp/1529326869
Actually yes and I'm a bit shocked you don't seem to understand the significance of it.
Here's an excerpt from the book Sandworm
>"... Stanislav Lunec, a GRU colonel who defected to the United States in 1992, would write his own tell all memoir, titles "Through the eyes of the enemy"...
>... Lunevs book stated that GRU agents had, in fact, already planted suitcase-sized nuclear weapons on American soil, ready to be set off in the event of war, more speculative, he argued that Russian military agents were also prepared to poison the water supplies of American cities with chemical and biological weapons. "One likely target would be the Potomac River, targeting the residents of Washington DC" he wrote"
Also in the book
>"Penkovsky calmy examined that he could help locate similar targets in every major Soviet city. As well as the residential and commercial buildings surrounding them that could serve as hiding places for the atomic weapons. He made no mention of the many thousands of civilians who would die in the explosions and the subsequent radioactive fallout
>Penkobskys Weatern interrogators were stunned. According to transcripts of the meeting, they ignored his proposal and continued asking him about Soviet capabilities. But in history's understanding of Soviet military intelligence Penkovsky's suggestion might have been one of his career's most telling moments a glimpse of how the GRU's officials perceived new innovations of mass destruction and their willingness to use them."
The F-16s the USAF use for SEAD have pretty significant limitations. They don’t have anything close to the jamming capability and being single seat vs. twin seat have might higher rates of task saturation over the Growler. It’s honesty kind of dumb they didn’t build a F-15G based off the strike Eagle. But the USAF has always had a jacked up relationship with SEAD. If you want to know more start here.
The phrase "struggle for the mastery of Asia" is a modified version of the title of a book by AJP Taylor titled A Struggle for the Mastery of Europe.
Some have used this modified version. For example, here is a well-known paper by Friedberg.
When I use that phrase I do not necessarily imply direct territorial control (though that might happen in some areas); the more likely cause and outcome of such a "struggle" would be extend, maintain and consolidate a sphere of influence where the "influence" would be economic, political and social and perhaps in some ways, even cultural over an area very roughly spanning South Asia, SE Asia, East Asia and perhaps even NE Asia,. It would likely include the first island chain in the Pacific, the southern reaches of the South China Seas extending all the way to at the least the Straits of Malacca and, in a more expansive sense, to the Gulf of Aden and the northern regions of the Indian Ocean.
In effect, underwriting this "struggle" would be the right and the ability to set up a rules-based system which the victor would be able to enforce both politically and militarily over such an area.
But the point is not to get stuck in terms of understanding this "struggle" in purely geographical terms. Rather, it is important to understand it in terms of controlling access and being able to regulate the economic, political, activities that take place within a broad and deliberately abstract notion of Asia.
Oh, I believe you, but I don't think its g forces that cause them to not be cheap.
Obviously I haven't tested it, but something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/DFRobot-DFR0282-Beetle-Arduino-Compatible-Microcontroller/dp/B01B0IQFU4
Would probably have no problem surviving 10k gs.
Now I don't know if that has the processing power necessary for use in artillery guidance. I don't understand the algorithms they'd be using, I have no reference point for it... but I'm fairly confident that microcontroller would survive the g forces.
.3 ounces x 10,000 = 187lbs. Divide the number of lbs by the number of supporting components on the microcontroller, particularly if you have it enclosed in something to distribute the 187 lbs of force, and I think it would survive... If it didn't survive, it would be damn close, and I'm not an expert in microcontrollers. I'm sure you could find a smaller, lighter one.
Maybe there's some other reason why they're so expensive. Maybe its the programming? Maybe its programming something fairly complex into a very light possibly proprietary military microcontroller? Maybe once you've done that, even as newer more powerful microcontrollers hit the market, you can't switch and even if you could you'd have to port all the code and go through testing again?
Anyway, I don't think its the g forces that are the issue.
When PLA did the military reform pretty much every officer was said to had in their possession a book which was referred to as "The Blue Bible", do you want to know what it is?
Or "US Army - Infantry Brigade Combat Team Target Order of Battle and Equipment, 2017"
In reality that's a simplified way of putting it, the whole set was translated and published in Chinese for officers to study. One each for IBCT, SBCT and ABCT. That's why after the reform PLAGF was organized into light, medium and heavy combined arms brigades much like the American counterparts as described in these books.
>If you assume that the primary aim was to remove the stench of failure and embarrassment from US Mil/Intelligence from 9/11 then they were spectacularly successful.
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>If you assume that the aim was to establish a democratic government then they were spectacularly unsuccessful.
George Friedman - founder of Stratfor and geopolitical big cheese - claims the real goal of invading Iraq was to put a ton of battle hardened US troops on the border of Saudi Arabia to scare them into helping liquidate Al Quaeda:
https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Secret-War-Worldwide-Struggle/dp/0767917855
The book was fascinating and more nuanced, but that was the gist.
I have no idea whether this is true of not but its an interesting theory / offers the least retarded reason for Iraq2 Baghdad Boogaloo.
At this stage it looks like they might not even need ADVENT; P&W have block upgrades planned for the F135, which involve very similar performance leaps.
Even the Intercept is wading into the ever changing US position.
Yes, given how high a % of Americas history has been spent at War, and the general global military footprint of the US, understanding the broad strokes of military strategy and technology would really be very helpful and important for any US president.
For example, had GW Bush read Galula's Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (a very short and concise book on the topic) he would have known that Afghanistan and Iraq were doomed to fail, due to the presence of multiple adjoining countries that could provide safe haven and supplies for the insurgents:
https://www.amazon.com/Counterinsurgency-Warfare-Theory-Practice-Classics/dp/0275993035
Likewise, an understanding of the increased proliferation and technological improvement of Anti Ship Missiles in the South China Sea would be essential to understand the appropriate strategy for US Naval development and how best to plan for a worst case scenario in the region. And this knowledge would be useful for comparing the presidents thoughts to whats actually being done with the budget and war plans to evaluate whether his generals are competent.
To be fair to the Obama-Biden administration, every prior presidential administration since Nixon had relentlessly appeased the Chinese in the rather absurd hope that they would somehow become a bastion of democracy and free market capitalism if we coddled them enough.
The alarming extent of this multi decade policy failure is outlined in The Hundred Year Marathon:
https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Year-Marathon-Strategy-Replace-Superpower/dp/1250081343
By far the best aspect of Trump administration has been his sharp reversal of this trend; the US is finally walking up to the threat posed by China, and taking steps to counter it. Especially in the most important realm, which is economically.
Modern Air Combat by Bill Gunston. You can get a used copy for barely more than the price of shipping. It's a little outdated now, but the fundamentals are sound.
For a more integrated look at the big picture, and somewhat more modern, try Fighter Wing by Tom Clancy.
I don't know of any books on missile defense myself though.
>City running out of water.
Have you thought about buying an atmospheric water generator?
>I have a mole deep at the upper level of government feeding me inside info and documents.
...Go on.
My understanding is, for weird internal Soviet reasons the Alpha program ended up amazingly aggressive technologically (not just for the hull but the reactor and attempts at reducing the crew via automation) and they were willing to pay for it.
There may be an angle that their steel wasn't up to meeting the depth specifications so they went with titanium (which yes, they had better access to, and consequently better knowledge). Ben Rich's book goes into how inexperienced the West was with titanium and how they had their hands full working with the comparatively small amounts needed for the SR-71 (roughly of the same era as the Alpha), but the Soviets were confident enough to weld giant submarine hull parts together. So they totally had their metallurgy game together back then.
It's not exceedingly technical but it is a bit dry, sort of similar to this (PDF) RAND report. The Amazon page has a "look inside" thing that you can preview it with if you want. It's pretty expensive to buy though.