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Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 14 Oct 2023 8:58 p.m. PST |
…Future Warfare "Predicting the future of warfare is at best a speculative affair. Any forecast can never be proposed with absolute certainty, no matter how robust the underlying analysis. The future is always somewhat uncertain. In fact, history is replete with examples of visionaries who have tried but failed to accurately divine the nature of change. Nonetheless, it is a necessary endeavour, because such is the cost of war today that the implications of failure can be far-reaching, even existential. From the Oracle of Delphi to the modern application of data analytics, military planners over the ages have sought greater clarity regarding the future conduct of war.[1] However, there is no crystal ball for future warfare. Instead, this essay argues that historical lessons provide the best means of determining its form, but only if they are used correctly. The context behind each case study must be carefully considered by military planners who seek to learn from the past so that the observations gathered can be accurately extrapolated onto the present situation, and the resulting lessons meaningfully applied. The value of history as a means of informing the future conduct of war is not new. James Mattis holds that "a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun."[2] The fundamental reason for this lies in the Clausewitzian adage that no matter the age, all wars conform to a set of universal principles that constitute its nature.[3] The great captains of the past would therefore not find the conflicts of today any more foreign conceptually than those they themselves experienced. The struggle they would have to overcome would rather be in adapting to the new means available with which to wage them…"
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Shagnasty ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 16 Oct 2023 11:57 a.m. PST |
The US had better start building armaments factories today if the growing world situation is any indicator at all. |
Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 16 Oct 2023 3:32 p.m. PST |
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BenFromBrooklyn | 18 Oct 2023 11:17 a.m. PST |
Not only build armaments factories, but make them robust, and with redundant supply chains so that production of a system cannot be shut down if one supplier somewhere is knocked out. It takes 48 states to build the F35? Fix it so that in an emergency, any 12 could. |
Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 19 Oct 2023 3:30 p.m. PST |
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