In the case of selective service being needed... there is no reason to have solid wages it's about national survival at that point.

Good to know. I was only able to find information from 2014 about some issues they were having, and didn’t know if that had continued. I was more offering it out there as one of a few reasons why Russia might be using Vietnam era bombing techniques. I didn’t mean to make it sound like I knew it was occurring currently.

showing a history if issues with their systems, and not seeing anything since...yeah total face palm. It's a totally reasonable question to ask.

I’ve seen reports online over the past few years regarding failures in their systems. One report had a blackout over all the middle east, a little under a year ago(sorry can’t find source). Another involved London locations being located in the North Sea(off by a few hundred miles) http://www.bbc.com/news/science-e… .…

Tyler, any chance that GLONASS is experiencing issues and they don’t want to waste their more expensive precision munitions if the CEP is too high? I have been thinking the whole time that the only reason they're using dumb bombs is GLONASS is down, Terror Weapon, clear out old inventory, low precision guided weapon…

I’m sorry but whatever the targeting tech on the plane, the physics of the drop still make carpet bombing in todays day and age a weapon of terror only. Unless ISIS was stupid enough to be in an open area just begging for it there really isn’t a case for carpet bombing.

After using several salvos of their most…

As heretical as it may be I actually love the Mig-29's(and the SU 27 families) lines. It is just so pretty.

That said I hope they all spontaneously blow up at the beginning of any war.

We have evolved our thinking(for the most part), but there are times when war is a necessary evil. Unlike our European neighbors who feel that they can just negotiate their way through any scenario, the US realizes that sometimes in the end the only way to solve some of the problems in the world(Persian Gulf War,…

Lets be clear though, outside of the second time in Iraq (I don’t include Vietnam because of multiple book length complications) all of them were interventions/wars for pretty legitmate purposes. How the aftermath in Afghanistan was handled or the planning even, is up for some harsh criticism, but our motivations in…

After war analysis calls into doubt the “Most shot down by patriots” the estimates at the time of the war were 90% were shot down by the patriot. Immediately after was 70% of those launched were shot down. Now it is estimated that between 0-10% of the Scuds were either damaged or destroyed. For the most part the…

Proposition A) limited US footprint, stall ISIS’s advance and use indigenous forces to form a bulwark until national forces can be retrained and take the ground back. Limited exposure of US forces and costs us several million a day.
Proposition B) US sends in several brigade combat teams to be a spearhead and let local…

A B-52 can carry as many nuclear weapons as N.Korea has in their inventory, and each warhead is more powerful than N.Korea’s entire stockpile combined. I can definitely see how they might be a little intimidated by that.

Also why on God's green earth, if they are even operational, would the US telegraph any of the…

Glide...crash same thing.

All of the N. Korean actions are kind of like a petulant child screaming look at me look at me, and then breaking a dish when no one looks at them. I do have to wonder if there is a breaking point for them though. At what point does the N. Korean leadership, either through internal power struggle or decreased Chinese…

Yeah because a nuclear strike on a nuclear state wouldn’t be met with more nuclear strikes back. You are right it wouldn't be a full scale conventional war...it would be full scale nuclear war.

I'm finding it more and more likely that someone in the IRGC will see a continued détente between the US and Iran as a threat to their control(narrative) and will eventually order a strike on a US ship or US allied ship. If the US is no longer the "Great Satan" that can't be trusted, the high perch of the IRGC in the…

I'm 32...does that mean I look like I'm from the future?...oh wait I'm 33 crap, I'm from the past.

Is it really much taller than the Burke’s? The bridge looks to be pretty low on the super structure, and most of the height looks to be for radar & com gear.

It comes down to this...what's more of a PR disaster for the Navy. A random F-18 goes down on a training mission, or a Blue Angels jet breaks up over a crowd of onlookers.

I will say that after reading the Marine Corps report(or at least a thorough summary) I’m not sold on women in all roles. The issue being women integrated units having lower readiness, lower accuracy rates in firing maneuvers and higher injury rates. Put simply it is possible that while having an equitable standard…