tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post1151772805795144418..comments2024-03-28T11:58:42.109-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: "But Aesop,...!" Basic training questionAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-24730609278159939622018-07-06T19:18:03.829-07:002018-07-06T19:18:03.829-07:00Lots of contradictions in Mark Matis' post.
...Lots of contradictions in Mark Matis' post. <br /><br />Air power is limited by available armaments. The amount of munitions required for air power to have any significance in Mr Matis' scenario are mind boggling. SHTF/WROL, armament inventory will quickly be exhausted, and at such point tactical nukes would be put on the table as an option. <br /><br />Importantly, we already have bomb supply issues: https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2018/05/22/the-us-is-running-out-of-bombs-and-it-may-soon-struggle-to-make-more/<br /><br />And a standard 1,000 lb bomb costs $12k. Standard AGM-65 air to surface missiles cost at least $17k. Financially, air power is unsustainable for any sort of homeland conflict. <br /><br />And troops have to physically control territory in order to displace resistance forces, which always leaves ambush targets.<br /><br />See max velocity for how to construct anti-infrared tarp.<br />RSRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-69880806575835313052018-07-02T22:14:11.806-07:002018-07-02T22:14:11.806-07:00...and, the role of "Conan the Barbarian"......and, the role of "Conan the Barbarian" was played by...<br />Just sayin'... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-45504982254360574732018-07-02T21:09:33.886-07:002018-07-02T21:09:33.886-07:00Bull. Cops are order followers. They already enfor...Bull. Cops are order followers. They already enforce existing gun control laws and when new ones are passed, they enforce those too. The Florida legislature actually had to pass a new law to stop cops from harassing concealed carriers when they had an incidental exposure. Cops are order followers and when they get the order to kick your door in and take your stuff, they are going to do it with a smile on their face.The Gray Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098168056466325559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-7876720172311460392018-07-02T16:18:25.464-07:002018-07-02T16:18:25.464-07:00soft targetssoft targetsAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15709735151597846410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-66122004927249749242018-07-02T15:46:28.968-07:002018-07-02T15:46:28.968-07:00just so you know, robert e howards Conan said if i...just so you know, robert e howards Conan said if it bleeds you can kill it long before arnold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-30601885262604620862018-07-02T13:51:54.232-07:002018-07-02T13:51:54.232-07:00That may have worked in more innocent and stupider...That may have worked in more innocent and stupider times.<br />Nowadays, not so much.<br /><br />Now, the actual resistance would simply turn in the leftists in their neighborhoods, and then use the reward money to fund more insurgency.<br /><br />We're not peasants plowing behind horses and crapping in outhouses, believing everything in the newspaper any more.<br /><br />Propaganda works only against ignorant and stupid people.<br />That's why right wing memes and alt-media are flat-out kicking @$$, while billion$ spent on the lamestream media are garnering them simultaneously the lowest ratings, and the lowest credibility, in recorded history.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-25355162701491041622018-07-02T10:05:43.292-07:002018-07-02T10:05:43.292-07:00I have a stupid idea. My idea is that we will have...I have a stupid idea. My idea is that we will have to wait for things to go sideways before we learn the true nature of our struggle against our own Armed Forces. I got this idea from the saying about no combat plans survive first contact intact. I gently remind my friends that the cheapest and most effective way to stifle rebellion is to reward handsomely anyone who turns those rebels in, or that aids and abets the FedGov. Thousands of traitors and lickspittles will do so. Our worst enemies are already in our neighborhoods. Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18410045398729979497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-14657978016088528802018-07-01T22:59:10.209-07:002018-07-01T22:59:10.209-07:00MM,
What war did your beloved Mattis win ?MM,<br /><br />What war did your beloved Mattis win ?DAN IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09474644417015205704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-72349428538718366252018-07-01T15:19:33.786-07:002018-07-01T15:19:33.786-07:0072 years, typo corrected.72 years, typo corrected.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-9060356537063936622018-07-01T14:50:44.792-07:002018-07-01T14:50:44.792-07:00@Mark
Spelling correction noted. Apologies for th...@Mark<br /><br />Spelling correction noted. Apologies for the misspelling.<br /><br />Your objections are noted, but would be largely irrelevant over a very short period of time.<br />But if I'm going to spend this much time with it, it's getting its own post.<br />https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2018/07/but-but-but-part-deux.htmlAesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-51351402230302778712018-07-01T14:08:07.931-07:002018-07-01T14:08:07.931-07:00Nuclear weapons are not useful against Freefor. T...Nuclear weapons are not useful against Freefor. The potential targets are too widely dispersed for them to be effective. And furthermore, downrwind from any FreeFor targets are the hives. And those hive dwellers are deadly afraid of the normal radiation from even a banana. Detonate a nuke upwind of them, and the hives will destroy themselves as quickly and as surely if one were to cut all their supply chains at once.Mark Matisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-6502494912545593152018-07-01T13:45:26.631-07:002018-07-01T13:45:26.631-07:00@ Aesop
Re: "We've also had nuclear weap...@ Aesop<br /><br />Re: "We've also had nuclear weapons for 82 years, so you may as well throw them into the stew as well..." <br /><br />FYI, "82-years" would put us back into 1936, right - so don't you mean 72-years or something thereabouts? <br /><br />The first successful nuclear detonation - the Trinity nuclear test of July 16, 1945, in the area of Alamogordo, New Mexico - occurred almost precisely seventy-three years ago. <br />Just saying... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-29348284347514095312018-07-01T13:11:37.218-07:002018-07-01T13:11:37.218-07:00If you are planning to ambush the enemy after thei...If you are planning to ambush the enemy after their air assets are gone, then your scenario plays well. If there still is an enemy to ambush.<br /><br />The enemy's power base is the hives. As long as those hives are intact, the enemy can do largely as it pleases. And can replace lost air assets. When the hives start to fall, the enemy will have to deploy his personnel to SAVING those hives, and there will be very few sorties outside those hives which would be worth an ambush. If some of those hives have their power cut, or their water cut, the third world culture and the fourth world culture of their urban youfs will be on full display, and the military and "Law Enforcement" will be too busy to deal with anything else. Although the video game crowd will be fully available for use against anyone the enemy choose to target, since those toys are not particularly useful in an urban environment. And those video gamers will NOT be restricted to the Rules of Engagement they currently operate under in Dumbfuckistan. Over there, our "leaders" want to win the hearts and minds of the populace. Over here, our "leaders" are quite willing to exterminate the Deplorables and replace them with a populace that has more melanin.<br /><br />It would be nice to find a way to take the video gamers out of the picture. I suspect that, with the FedGov insistence on using COTS software, a portion of their command link runs Microsoft, with all its backdoors. If one is able to hack into that link and command a weapons drop, either on the video gamers themselves, or on one of the hives, those toys will quickly go out of play. Targeting the families of those soldiers is not particularly worthwhile, because I expect most of them are bachelors - have you ever looked at a video game gathering? And furthermore, I would expect them to be assigned to attack targets well away from any family they might have. Just as when they deploy the military, they will NOT assign them to the areas where they are from. Instead, soldiers from California will deploy to Georgia, and similar assignments across the country to reduce the chance of a soldier being ordered to kill his friends or his family. So there is some time up front to deal with the situation.<br /><br />Additionally, an undetermined number of soldiers would refuse to kill Mere Citizens. Some openly, and those will quickly be executed "Pour encourager les autres". The smart ones will be less brazen. As I have said before, how operationally effective can a combat unit be if over half its members have norovirus? But then I'm sure it's impossible to spread that through a mess hall "accidentally".<br /><br />If things go hot and "Law Enforcement" sortie into the countryside to smash FreeFor, they might go out unguarded initially. But after the first few losses, it is no problem for them to call up air with IR to scan the area around their patrol to the limit of rifle range. If they see any activity which doesn't look like normal civilian operations, they will either strike from the air, or guide their forces into a formation that can flank and destroy the FreeFor. Two helicopters or two airplanes can provide continuous coverage for any patrol until it returns to the safety of the hive. And I certainly hope you and your tribe are not planning to venture into the hive for urban combat. If they still have power, you will be ratted out continuously until you leave or are dead. And if they DON'T have power, they will not last more than a couple of weeks at most.<br /><br />And by the way, only one "T". Don't want anyone thinking Secretary Mattis is related in any way. To me, he is the best we have had in that position since at least Secretary Weinberger.Mark Matisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-25642422605626138952018-07-01T12:17:22.503-07:002018-07-01T12:17:22.503-07:00The full weight of US military power could never c...The full weight of US military power could never completely pacify 37 million people in an area the size of Ohio and Indiana. If there was a full blown insurgency in the CONUS, they`d spend all their time guarding themselves. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07876892524283320384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-71418453911467642352018-07-01T10:57:59.726-07:002018-07-01T10:57:59.726-07:00See, NOW I hafta read all the other stuff too...sh...See, NOW I hafta read all the other stuff too...sheeshMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06991412821092379468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-85072007298900797332018-06-30T20:53:44.258-07:002018-06-30T20:53:44.258-07:00Can't say I share your "faith" ref l...Can't say I share your "faith" ref law enforcement. Some will,mostly the Fed variety , others won't. <br />BGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-40318903380678764022018-06-30T20:18:31.210-07:002018-06-30T20:18:31.210-07:00The air forces of whoever it is we are talking abo...The air forces of whoever it is we are talking about fighting here (dare I say the USAF, USN, USMC, etc) are already afraid to bomb targets in foreign countries for fear that a civilian might be nearby. How reluctant will they be to bomb ACTUAL US citizens? How reluctant will the pilots themselves be? I have total faith that law enforcement officers are going to follow all of their orders to beat up US citizens and stomp on our faces every chance they get. The military? Most will do the same, but some will not. The number that will refuse will be strategically meaningful, if nothing else.<br /><br />Another idea: To fight against air power in your own lands, you identify the pilots and pay their families a visit.<br /><br />*Pilot looking for militia targets* "Hey! I can see my house from here! Wait a minute... It's on fire!"The Gray Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098168056466325559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-29571506333736515042018-06-30T18:38:29.539-07:002018-06-30T18:38:29.539-07:00"Rounds complete, target destroyed, over"..."Rounds complete, target destroyed, over"<br />BGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com