Derp Cade

@SadiesMopingBed @SizweLo Sure, we haven't lost ships, but also the tactics used in the exercise literally ended up being what we faced in places like Iraq and we got our fucking ASSES handed to us on the daily there

@SizweLo Almost a quarter century ago. Iran did not sink 16 warships including an aircraft carrier in the current conflict, so obviously the U.S. military learned from that exercise and many others. That's why they are kicking the regime's ass right now.

In 2002, the US conducted Millennium Challenge, the largest war games in its history. They split soldiers into two teams: 🔵Blue, which was America, and 🔴Red, an unnamed generic Middle Eastern country. The 🔴Red team was led by retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper. The idea behind the games was to see how, not if, the 🔵Blue team would win. In other words, the 🔴Red team was supposed to lose, but General Van Riper didn’t want to lose. So he played to win. He used asymmetric tactics by doing things like using civilian boats instead of military ones, motorcycle couriers and coded messages in mosque towers because their cell phone networks had been hacked. He launched a massive preemptive strike using a swarm of small boats and cruise missiles, which overwhelmed the 🔵Blue Team’s Aegis defense system. In the simulation, this resulted in the “sinking” of 16 American warships, including an aircraft carrier. The exercise was supposed to take 14 days. Vin Riper and his team won after day one. Understandably, the US military was embarrassed because this was supposed to show off all its superior tactics and cutting edge technologies. So, they restarted the exercise and changed the rules to force everyone to follow a script so that the 🔴red team could not win. The exercise controllers brought the sunken ships back to life, and forced Van Riper to follow a scripted path that ensured a 🔵Blue Team victory. 🔴Red was ordered to turn off certain air defense systems and use regular cellular communications to allow 🔵Blue to destroy them. 🔴Red was also told exactly where to move certain units so 🔵Blue could pretend to find them and neutralise them according to a pre-planned timeline. Most crucially, Van Riper was forbidden from using the swarming tactics that had been so effective in the opening hours. The controllers argued that the reset was necessary because the goal of Millennium Challenge 2002 wasn’t just to see who would win, but to test new Network-Centric Warfare concepts. They felt that if the game ended on Day 2, they wouldn’t get to test the rest of their expensive toys. Van Riper, however, argued that testing those toys in a rigged environment provided a false sense of security. General Van Riper was so angry, he quit the exercise midway and wrote a 21-page recommendation on changes the military had to make to, get around his asymmetric tactics. They ignored the report and said the exercises were a huge success that proved the military doctrine was good. “It was no longer a free-play exercise... it was a scripted exercise. They had a desired outcome, and they were going to get it.” — Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper 24 years later, maybe Von Riper was onto something.

@MeltyLoo now the real question is. Can they hit a clip with the huntsman in Team Fortress 2

457th reminder she's genderfluid and he can be a boy or a girl anytime

@Charcoolo235 @BiteBunnys [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

@BiteBunnys Call me a Vietnam veteran because I’m dying for bush

The TVs lied

@fixxieee No but seriously stay safe. Get some pepper spray and keep your guard up. dont be overly paranoid to the point it harms you but still be prepared

@fixxieee I would advise carrying some sort of self defense weapon from now on. Gun, baton, fuckin- katana, whatever works just stay strapped girl

mfw i’m working on my car and a group of teenagers walk by and one says “is that girl?” then another guy said “it better fucking be” i’m actually about to be hatecrimed LMAO

@montgomeries_ The way this is drawn reminds me of Urotsuki

woah... thank you so much for 420 subscribers !!!!!!!!! i know just the way to celebrate . . .

@Yoru656703 @legomoderpriv to be fair not everyone's in a position to actually present as a woman in a safe manner. They could live in a hostile area or have shit fucking parents/family

@legomoderpriv This is your call to stop doing this "boymode" bullshit and grasp at freedom.

Lmao I'd die on the spot 😭

@Jordy_vD_ @Nassreddin2002 Jagged ass mountains my beloved

@Nassreddin2002 Natuur in Almere:

Dutch people: “I love to spend time in nature” Nature:

@The_icy_serpent @merlang7 @Maudeofmany guy who hasn't played the game

@merlang7 @Maudeofmany There’s no lesbians in this game btw

i like to think this happens in universe and someone happens to be looking through a glass and is like "im not tripping right?"

@ufoloverboy @AbslomD @KCmilly95 @shitpost_2049 Also the twin towers are significantly taller, which means the how the weight is spread throughout the building's structural elements is pretty fuckin' different

@AbslomD @KCmilly95 @shitpost_2049 Yes because it was a U.S. Army B-25 Mitchell bomber and not an airliner. A Boeing 767 is about 3 times larger.

@ClicheDoodles Welcome to the Black Fairy Hotel

Hellooo, Guess who's a legal adult!! ^_^

@madimaid777 @OSnoStress Holy shit wait its that one meme

@OSnoStress this is so fucking cute

The way this is animated is kinda ingenious, looks promising. No idea what the source material is though

@supermeruz SPAM RAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

the korean filipino hawaiian spam connection lmao

@IiTheboi @rotatingsunsun The only thing mutilated here is your intelligence

@IiTheboi @rotatingsunsun bro its top surgery its not like he was dragged into some dark alleyway and forcefully cut into, it was a personal choice in a clinical environment

homophobic uma fans will deadass like and repost the most depraved porn of their umas but when it comes to harmless images of trans stay gold all of a sudden they're talking about fan created guidelines

@TheEpisodesShow @cslivr

@mickedony_ @nocontextmemes Yes. Rabbits will eat literally anything they can manage to chew its not even funny. I've lost like three charger cables to my dad's pet rabbit sneaking into my orom

@nocontextmemes Do they really eat this?😂😂😂😍

@Junior69kg @astrobabeyyy Bro I remember shit from 2009 like it was yesterday you can fuck right off with that

@astrobabeyyy being a toddler in the 2000s don’t count

my brother in christ gen z are 2000s kids

@vekllei Question. Are the Utahn parts of Dallas america willing participants or captured territory? Also sidenote if its the ""dixie"" parts of utah that would be incredibly funny

there's some updates to the map -- new countries, new internal regions, and new travel advisories for all of them!

WOW thank you for 15,000 followers 🎉 lots to come

@LUvvUcy Don't kill yourself dude, that shit kills you

Keep getting asked "Whats Your Five Year Plan" at interviews and I just stare at them like this