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originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: SMOKINGGUN2012
How about 1TB as an appetizer?
a) There were 2 Presidents in 1901!
b) William McKinley was 25th President. He took office on March 4, 1897 and was assassinated on September 6, 1901.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: pheonix358
Let's hope it's something like that and not a reference to John Titor.
originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
originally posted by: Caled
Fighting is always harder for the good guys. You have to check your targets. Bad guys don't care.
originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
originally posted by: FlyingFox
a reply to: pheonix358
It's like Russian tanks taking hits from rooftop ambushes. Why not just hose down those rooftops with UAVs?
That's right....civilian casualties.
There is some level of incompetence involved. The Russians aren't performing on the ground reconnaissance. If they were, they wouldn't get ambushed so often. They've been substituting drones for recon, and it doesn't work.
They also seem to have a troop morale problem, which impacts the recon issue. Good recon takes motivated personnel and quality small unit leadership. That also seems absent in the units they have in Ukraine, else we wouldn't see generals taking the chances they've been taking to try get the troops moving forward.
Cheers
There's no avoiding the fact that the United States is evil as hell when it comes to this stuff.
For years, the standard tactic for fighting terrorists has been to order drone strikes on peoples houses, and declare that everybody who died was a terrorist. Including any wives or children who might be present.
Experts have long concluded that we create more terrorists than we kill using this tactic, but they keep doing it.
Because it's just so much easier to indiscriminately blow stuff up like life is just a video game.
originally posted by: FlyingFox
I just don't understand why there's no gun-based sniper drones.
originally posted by: MetalThunder
a reply to: XtheMadnessNow
The Calm .. Can ya feel IT