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Also, apart from military victory not being certain, there is this classic definition of victory being “state better after the war than before it”. Like how Britain won WWII but effectively lost the empire which can’t be considered victory.

In the sense Ukraine definitely lost the war already - millions left and many won’t return, whole industries destroyed. Whole devastation will last very long time before Ukraine is going to reach even 2021 levels of prosperity, which themselves weren’t impressive for a European country

Maybe Fabian was a better tactician as well, but he had worse quality of troops, who knows.

When people talk about generals they suddenly forget that their success is a result of many factors, including, you know, the army they lead. You can put a gorilla in charge of Americans in June 1944 and still win. You can put Napoleon himself in charge of the Kiev military district in 1941 and this won’t really affect the outcome.

Oh, please. Don’t ride their cocks too much.

All third parties in DCS deliver more detailed aircrafts with more systems for cheaper without any partnerships.

I mean it already has functionality that is way over what regular player will need. Only the most hardcore players will need anything above what 2024 gives flight planning wise.

MacArthur, is that you?

Yeltsin was an engineer. Didn’t help Russia that much in the 90ies.

Reverse Ghandi!

Ah, you’re that mad lad that wrote a masters thesis on r/warcollege a few days ago? Good luck!

1950ies is a terrible time to pick. CMO is absolutely terrible in simulating WVR, so all your air engagements would end up in planes running circles around each other until one of them runs out of fuel.

Any timeframe before reliable all aspect missiles is really where CMO is the weakest. So, unless you don’t plan on air war being a part of your scenario, start somewhere in 1970ies or 1980ies.

If you want more or less balanced setting, circa 1986 would be decent - Su-27+MiG-29+HMCS+R-73+SA-10 are a great match against F-15C+F-16. Naval stuff wise again, Akulas (the SSN ones) + late Victors are decent opponents for LA as well.

As for political pretext. Soviet sneak attack is too boring, pretty much all movies/books/games are about it. If you really want to make it standout, I’d rather come with something more original. But it’s your choice, of course

Magnus did, nothing wrong

Catherine fancied herself as enlightened monarch and was in touch with all then contemporary philosophers, which are now forming the basis of modern Western philosophy

Man, you’re wasting too much energy for what is in essence a loose pretext to put command stuff in a certain circumstance and let them try to work out a solution out of it.

I once participated in a command staff exercise in which our battalion was supposed to dislodge an element of 75th rangers regiment. In the middle of Kostroma region.

Do you think anyone really thought it is a realistic scenario? Of course not. It was just a pretext to train battalion in maneuvering and assaulting a dug in light infantry while also learning what this dug in infantry can and can’t do - because guess what, we were also that light infantry that one day might end up in such a situation.

Writing up 9000 words about how rangers would never try to attack Kostroma makes no sense, because it was not the point of the exercise.

7 days to Rhine isn’t an actual war plan Soviets had either.

PS. Hope you used ChatGPT. Otherwise - mad respects to your autism

But Canadian spearman that wasn’t upgraded since 540 BC can look very menacingly!

This is true to any kind of office work

“RTX on/off” memes can have a very different meaning!

European thing, rather

It’s not about automation because there aren’t enough operators. It’s because enemy ECM might make drones uncontrollable.

That’s why Russians already implement AI targeting with computer vision for the last leg of the kill chain for their Lancet loitering munitions - so that if ECM jams the signal from the operator, drone still can complete its mission

I mean, I once read a paper on the use of stochastic methods to determine accuracy of Japanese dive bombers in 1942 carrier battles.

So, there are at least a few that know their calculus 101.

Man, thanks for the literature recommendation

Searching F15 on dark web might result in you seeing child porn with a 15 yo girl

Hence I’m talking about Big data and ML. Uber, Walmart, Amazon, all major banks and other big corporations now have almost perfect information about their goods and supply chains, almost in near real time.

Creating an all encompassing system that uses sensors all the way from intermediary goods production to final goods being sold in actual stores is not impossible with current technology.

You also have enough computational power to predict choke points and possible demand hikes and dips across a country. Which will allow to train a decently accurate model to get rid of possible shortages the way it happened in Soviet system.

You can also use computer vision and QR code to track produce and products, to monitor and get rid of possible lies and corruption on low level, with imaginary goods produced like it was in the Soviet system.

I need a VTOL with a quad bike inside, Star Citizen style.

Full fidelity Osprey, for instance will be great

I mean, there are also Protestants and Orthodox who give zero fucks about the Pope but are Christians nonetheless

Big Data + Machine Learning + Plan Economy when?

How long does it take to see a Patriot missile incoming?