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yeah I know russia has never been a maritime power. But my point is that these naval drones really are a game changer. Even the simple crude things the houthis have are able to deny full control of the red sea to the mighty US navy. Imagine of they were spamming the sophisticated drones...

The *overwhelming* majority are flying drones, which are much much easier to detect and interdict. Even the naval drones they are using are crude speedboats with explosives. There is a big difference between those drones, and the stealthy much more sophisticated naval drones the Ukrainians are...

The truth is, no one has an answer to naval drone swarms. And no, Crimea wont be cut off by naval drones lol.

Its desertstormitis. The idea that every non-western enemy of the USA is just a giant version of Iraq

Not to mention the simple fact that the USA does not have nearly the munitions it needs or the productive capacity for such an immense project.

It would take months and months and months of intensive strikes to do that and quite frankly you dont have the munitions. You'd also be facing dronestrikes and asymmetrical attacks on your own forces.

It takes far more than bombing infrastructure to "end iran tommorrow"

Can you show me where he laid out how the USA can end Iran as an entity tommorrow? All I see is standard wanking about American air power, which most certainly would not end Iran as an entity tommorrow.

I'm curious as to how this would be done w/o using nuclear weapons

So be it.

The American Empire will be dead in due time. While the British Empire left behind a monumental legacy of successful nations and institutions, the American Empire will be remembered for sodomy, rap music and macdonalds. The UK is in a parlous state precisely because it has become an american...

Of course. But they also have immensely productive agricultural zones that enebaled them to support vast populations In pre columbian times the three regions of the world with the largest populations were china, india and western europe. Not surprisingly, the three regions of the old world with...

He's full of crap. India and southern China dont get snow and they have supported their enormous populations since ancient times because weather and climate allow paddy agriculture to produce multiple crops a year.

The old British were so much better thus stuff. Just bribe the toughest tribe and give them lots of guns and tell them they can do what they want as long as they keep the undesirables out. The west OTOH are now ruled by psychopaths

yup. What the USA needed good negotiators and dumptrucks of cash, not "HOOAH! Semper Fudge" military adventurism. But the modern western elite doesnt do diplomacy. it issues demands, then punishes you when you dont submit

One of the lessons of insurgencies is that given safebases, outside funding and enough willing men, an insurgency can be continued indefinitely. Just as the USA could never win in Vietnam because it was also fighting the Soviet Union, They could never win in Afghanistan because they were also...

War is politics by other means. its inherently political.

Its tonnage advantage comes from its carriers, which in the age of drones, hypersonic missiles and autonomous torpedoes may be going the way of the battleship. They may be useful for bullying 3rd rate powers, but how will they fair against a peer? And that tonnage advantage is rapidly declining...

No, I am trying to wake people out of their post cold war stupor. This isnt the 90's anymore. China's navy is no longer a bunch of rinky dink missile boats. They are building an enormous blue water fleet of modern ships with an industrial capacity that dwarfs the USA. Unless we properly...

praying mantis..... Yeah, so the Chinese navy has as much experience against a major navy as the modern US navy has.