Comments on: US Less Dominant But So What

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:19:07 +0000

Probably something wrong with whatever engine this site uses for display and control. A lot of them are going big on java. Contact the web administrator, I’m sure he would be interested in your feedback.

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:27:11 +0000

The only reason I can think of why we would do that was because of the Russio/nuclear affect(my term); where by the Russians could not build missiles accurate enough to reliably destroy military targets so they built 80megaton warheads to totally destroy our cities as a counter measure.

The more accurate your weapons are the less yield and cost you need. With the constant improvement in SDI technology, countermeasures will become cheaper and at some point in the near future, be cheaper that nuclear capability. I definitely see a day coming where very few nuclear arms will be held by players on the world scene.

I can’t believe we aren’t improving our arsenal, I read in Scientific American that we have laboratory methods in improving our warheads with out expensive under ground testing methods or any other chest beating necessary. These facts are not even classified, and don’t need to be. The country that continues to rely solely on nuclear weapons for defense, will be the first to go bankrupt. Korea has already found that out, Iran is next.

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:11:33 +0000

Exactly what I’ve been promoting, Think smart cheaper, faster, better, and make it work — not fail like NASA tends to do, when attempting the same thing. I still think tech has a real place in the equation, but they need to do it will cheaper civilian stuff. Why pay so much when the same damn thing can be bought on the street so much cheaper and thrown away when broken. We could have bought 100 laptops for what we pay for some of those armored versions. Equipment is expendable and should be designed that way, not our troops.

I’m just saying I think we can do more strategically and economically at the same time, and be even MORE effective!

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:02:43 +0000

I 2nd that motion!

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:55:56 +0000

True! The bailout happened good or not because history point out that doing nothing ended in a ten year depression of the likes the WHOLE WORLD hadn’t seen before. Let us not fool ourselves, it is a world economy, and what happens to one country can affect all the others as well.

All the countries of the world need to stand together to make a stronger economy. I feel our congress is the biggest impediment to this, not the UN. As weak as the UN is, I’m sure some folks think they mean well. Unfortunately it is the corporations that are the 800lbs gorrilla now. They can bend all countries and economies to their will. Fortunately greed keeps them from organizing a total world take over because not one of them wants to see the other get over on them!

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:47:20 +0000

No YOU owe US. We are tired of policing the world. If you want us to stop fine, but then every tin horn in the neighborhood will come gunning for YOU! And your leaders will be powerless to stop it!

We would LOVE to quit this job, but why give up 40 + years of relatively peaceful existence? Look how much better things have become in supposedly 3rd world countries like China and India! They are no way 3rd world NOW! Look how much better trade has helped bring countries like Brazil out of the jungle and into the space age! NAA! I don’t buy your pessimism! Things may not be perfect in mine or your country, but that means rolling up our sleeves and getting to work to make it better for everybody!

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:41:12 +0000

I don’t think we are so much in decline as the rest of the world is finally playing catchup! However if our congress doesn’t get a handle on the budget we will start sliding downhill precipitously. If we keep thinking smarter like our Armed Forces leaders, and do things cheaper, faster, and better; I think we can balance out our forces very well, and still have a defense industrial base for emergencies, and still be a considerable force to be reckoned with.

Look at Israel. No matter what your opinion of her is; nobody really wants to mess with her either! We got that is spades for years to come. However thinking smarter, and more strategically, will be even more valuable.

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:33:59 +0000

I totally agree, too bad I couldn’t join this thread when it came out.

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:29:45 +0000

We sent the factories overseas because our unions made the BIG mistake of thinking automation was going to steal their jobs. Now we see who has the cushy jobs. They may not have the living standards we do, but they aren’t busting their butts when robots do the dirty work either!

As with India, I think China’s living standards will catch up even among the poorest, as long as they continue to play capitalist instead of the last failed concept. Speaking of which, as soon as the dollar drops enough, the factories will come back. It is already getting cheaper to built custom electronic circuits in this country, and I see a rebound coming from that sector first.

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:15:53 +0000

I have plenty of proposals for domestic tranquility, but that wasn’t the topic. I tired of being off topic, so I should shut up!

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:14:13 +0000

That would be fine if it weren’t for history, if Hitler had been marginalized earlier, WWII may never have happened. Look at the now 40+ years of relative peace we have enjoyed, look at the up and coming 3rd soon to be 1st and 2nd world? And if we did let every little tin horn dictatorship play with nuclear weapons, and they abused them. Oh God! You would NEVER hear the end of whiners like Byron saying, “WHY DIDN’T WE DO SOMETHING!? WAAA!”

It is always the nay sayers that come up complaining when things don’t go their way, even though we’ve been going their way more and more.

Besides, so far no one is admitting that force is required yet in this new administration of appeasement and diplomacy. We shall see. We shall SEE!

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:04:11 +0000

Of course, it is the biggest, best scam even since the Roman Empire. Except instead of the rich paying for bread and circuses, WE pay for votes with OUR own money. The best scam in history! If left to continue, we will not see the Constitution’s 300th birthday.

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:46:17 +0000

You will never get me to NOT believe #6 didn’t happen; they have been trying to attack my network for two years and place .exe files inside my LAN. I’ve see the SCADA film demo that can in fact destroy a standby generator over a supposedly secured network.

I don’t have to “know” that they did this as a fact. I just KNOW they did it. Get it! Call me unreasonable, but if a skunk stinks I don’t have to rub my nose it to find out; if a animal looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I’m willing to believe it is a duck — no matter WHAT you say!

IT security people make their living being ultra paranoid, we have big egos and don’t care if people call us crazy; but damn you if you try to punch through our networks! We will stop at nothing short of criminal illegal means to stop this!

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:34:16 +0000

Exactly, you hit the nail on the head. If we don’t get a handle on the brain drain the PRC is exercising, all the defense spending in the world won’t amount to a hill of beans. How are we going to keep prepared with a totally hobbled economy? I wouldn’t doubt if some of the companies China buys out for foreign debts, don’t end up junked out, split up and sold down the river piecemeal so they can further their corporate dominance.

You can’t blame them for trying to get away with it; it is just that it is stupid to stand idly by and let it happen!

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:11:16 +0000

Spelling correction ICBMs — I swear my fingers are getting fatter!

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:10:03 +0000

No Russian ICMBs? Man you REALLY lost your cred with me! I look at the new ones coming out everytime an article on Defense Update comes out. Not only that, but they are building anti-starwars features into the warheads.

Not that it will work, but that is not the point.

By: George Nickolas

George Nickolas — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:57:25 +0000

People forget that BRAC 1995 destroyed our ammunition production capability. We are not modernizing our Nukes, and China has Nuke armed subs and so do the Russians. They are modernized. We gave China technology to make their nuke missiles more accurate. We do not have the shapist pins in the sewing kit it seems.

By: n/a

n/a — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:14:39 +0000

Two things America has done, start a civil war cause it was the only war that America won, next would be slavery, let’s face it. Democracy, Capitalism is finished. Companies fire employees that stopped perpetrators from stealing, and reducing shrink, while the management was stealing on the side, to compensate for the weak dollar. News to you just because a company products are made in China, and is part of China, does not necessarly make it a good idea to steal from them, cause we Americans are paying for it, notice China does not have a patent law, it allows them to dominate in production. While it’s pennies in China, it’s a significant value of money in the United States. But that’s all about to change right now.

By: n/a

n/a — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:09:26 +0000

Two things America has done, start a civil war cause it was the only war that America won, next would be slavery, let’s face it. Democracy, Capitalism is finished. Companies fire employees that stopped perpetrators from stealing, and reducing shrink, while the management was stealing on the side, to compensate for the weak dollar. News to you just because a comapny products are made in China, and the is part of China, does not necessarly make it a good idea to steal from them, cause we Americans are paying for it, notice China does not have a patent law, it allows them to dominate in production. While it’s pennies in China, it’s a significant value of money in the United States. But that’s all about to change right now.

By: Gordon of Khartoum

Gordon of Khartoum — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:16:24 +0000

Yeah, BOOMER, I think that we are on the same page! Fire and Manuevre is indecriminate, but it works, if you acept the indescriminate aspect of it. Counter-Guerilla "guerillas" also works, it's a lot cheaper, more descriminate and more likely to "win the peace" as well as the war, since you haven't got everybody pissed and you've killed all the enemy, and in plain sight, too (great for "winning hearts and minds"), but most conventional armies never make the transition. It's a war of brains, and we seriously underestimated enemy capability in the terrain and terms of the war. I also agree, that armies can only do so much: they aren't "peace keepers", "nation builders", or any of that-the just go whack things. It's an awkward instrument, at best, and best left operating as it does best: as a deterrant. Mess with us, and we'll whack you, and leave you with the mess. Do it again, so wil we. Easy! We don't need Patreous' 3 inch manual on coutner guerilla warfare. You can some it up in a couple paragraphs-and that's a lot easier in the field.