@KTB_500 Wouldn’t the vehicles just move past their smoke? In the UKR counter offensive their columns had to breach 10K of obstacles under fire. Seems like they couldn’t carry enough
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Neil McCauley
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@NeilMcCauley226 But vehicle mounted would......and we use to have that capacity
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This!
So why do we "pretend" it will work?
Also I still have yet to see a BCT breach under smoke, as it always runs out prior to the breach force getting to the breach.
The Buddy CSM@TheBuddyCSM
@KTB_500 I love NTC, but trying to gain effective suppression and obscuration for an armor battalion is a lift that is too heavy for an ABCT. I think it would take the entire division’s artillery to effectively provide enough “SO” the breach force can do the “SRA.”
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@FinniusFoxley @HomericFuturist Elite Portuguese units fought well. Flechas, paras, marinhos. But the regular conscript on a 2 year bush tour usually sat in a fort for 1.5 years. No maps, poor training, little fighting. Most KIAs in AN/MZ were from anti vehicle mines and car crashes
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@HomericFuturist Uh putting the Rhodesians and Portuguese in the same light is kinda offensive to the Rhodesians. One Selous Scout did a better job and was braver than a battalion of portuguese soldiers and thats putting it lightly
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With all the discussion about Rhodesia and South Africa the Portugese really don’t get enough credit for how hard they fought the commies
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@HomericFuturist Portugal gets little credit for holding the line for 10+ years of a 500 year empire. Conscripts going 2 year tours in the bush, paras and marinhos fighting hard in Guinea. Historians theorize they could’ve held AG/MZ if they conceded Guinea. Africa would be better for it
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@ClayTravis This weirdo doesn’t have to appeal to anyone except immigrants and boomers. Texas is very nearly a blue state, and will likely flip soon without dramatic deportations of legal immigrants
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Four things: 1. There is nothing wrong with being gay. 2. But no straight man poses like this for a photo. 3. Democrats know they have huge issues with men yet keep picking men like this, who will never appeal to normal guys. 4. Paxton by seven or more. Race won’t be close.
Democrats@TheDemocrats
Fired up. Ready to go. It’s time to take back Texas.
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@Babygravy9 Anyone crossing the border wearing camoflauge can easily be declared a hostile military target and promptly engaged by a drone strike or perhaps a nice linear ambush to include claymore mines
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How many “special interest” Chinese nationals entered the US while the border was wide open for four years? Hundreds? Thousands?
Insider Wire@InsiderWire
#BREAKING: 6 “special interest” Chinese nationals wearing camouflage, apprehended near Eagle Pass, TX.
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@SinaiLawFirm @Cernovich No it won’t because the tenants will be foreigners or new arrivals or illegals. No red stater will move to a bombed out building in nyc.
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1 - at least a third of my clients would sell to the government immediately if they got FMV for the property
2 - turning tenants into property owners on a mass scale will usher in a multi-generational GOP majority in any state that will institute a program like that
Brecca Stoll@breccastoll
NOW: Mamdani says his admin will transfer ownership from bad landlords to non-profits. “For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.”
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@MattWalshBlog Graham is the Israeli proxy in the US government. So this is Israel’s case for continuing the war even though we’re facing a significant strategic defeat
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Lindsey is really stressed about the possibility of the war ending. He might have to go creepily wander around Disney World again to calm himself.
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC
If a deal is struck to end the Iranian conflict because it is believed that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be protected from Iranian terrorism and Iran still possesses the capability to destroy major Gulf oil infrastructure, then Iran will be perceived as being a dominate force requiring a diplomatic solution. This combination of Iran being perceived as having the ability to terrorize the Strait in perpetuity and the ability the inflict massive damage to Gulf oil infrastructure is a major shift of the balance of power in the region and over time will be a nightmare for Israel. Also, it makes one wonder why the war started to begin with if these perceptions are accurate. I personally am a skeptic of the idea that Iran cannot be denied the ability to terrorize the Strait and the region cannot protect itself against Iranian military capability. It is important we get this right.
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@robertlasagna1 Fuck you dude. Smoking indoors and drinking at work and harassing women should be allowed and mad men is a documentary
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Mad men isn't that good and it's mainly a girls show
Bambulu@Bqmbulu
What’s the harshest truth every young man must eventually learn?
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@WallStreetMav @11975MHz CECOT is an affront to human spirit. These men are treated like animals in cages. They deserve the dignity of hanging.
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Liberal reporter:
"Humanity has to decide whether it's worth it to put hundreds of people in a cage so that millions of people can live peacefully. It's quite a dilemma.”
For normal people, this is not a dilemma.
Lock them up, throw away the key.
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@ShitpostRock2 Realistic though. Who else would the current UK regime hire to be a deadly spy than a true commissar of their cause
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''Bro just go read some books''
Meanwhile the newest James Bond book:
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@ArmchairW One interesting development of the 20th century is intel chiefs conducting high level negotiations. Unimaginable 100 years ago. Nowdays the deal team is potus, sec state, and cia
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tfw we just normalize with Cuba and Trump claims it's regime change
OSINTdefender@sentdefender
Following a U.S. government plane seen leaving Havana, Cuba, CBS has learned that CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Cuba to meet with his Cuban counterpart in the Ministry of the Interior. Topics of discussion included Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism (SST) and recent comments by top U.S. officials that Cuba poses a national security threat.
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@KassyAkiva @cdrsalamander Not even Patton or MacArthur wore so many silly ribbons. Hard to take cooper seriously, looks North Korean
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CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper says the U.S. has “flipped the cost curve” in drone warfare against Iran.
“The days of using high-value defenses to shoot down cheap targets are behind us.”
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@Babygravy9 It’s extremely difficult to destroy a dam, requires thousands of pounds of explosives to punch through all that concrete. This should be taken very seriously, but unless the device was placed in the perfect spot its damage would be negligible.
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Insane. Barely even made national news: an underwater IED was discovered at a reservoir dam in Alabama. No word yet about suspects.
Mrs B@attackdogX
Yesterday, Divers doing a routine maintenance check at the Converse Reservoir Dam in Mobile, AL discovered an underwater grenade type IED. The FBI bomb squad had to be called in to safely detonate it. The Reservoir and Dam are critical infrastructure, and this is being called “an unprecedented threat“ The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been made aware of the situation.
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@mattforney @ploughmansfolly Does any of this matter if you don’t need an ID to vote in CA? Is there a realistic scenario where a non Democrat establishment candidate loses when they can commit voter fraud so blatantly?
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Spencer Pratt is the anti-Casey Putsch. Every insurgent Republican running for office everywhere in America needs to Ctrl+V his campaign.
1) He doesn't countersignal Trump.
2) He doesn't waste time on social media. He lets a team handle it and puts his effort into ads and retail campaigning.
3) He doesn't talk about Israel or other national issues that voters don't care about and which he has no ability to influence.
Pratt meets LA voters where they are, talking about the issues that actually matter: crime, homelessness, decay, disaster preparedness, infrastructure. This is why he's going to win.
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
🚨 WOW! SPENCER PRATT with the PERFECT response "You're a Republican in a deep blue city...the odds are stacked against you." PRATT: "It's just the socialists and the communists that don't back me!" "My supporters in LA are Democrats. Everyone I know, my family, are all Democrats. I grew up in LA!" "Everybody that texted me last night, amazing, congratulations, are all Democrats. So what people are confused on, the Democrats all are behind me." "I'm confident I'm probably going to win with 51% on June 2nd because I don't do a political message. I don't do national politics." "I don't do tribal politics. I don't talk about other states. I'm localized." "I just want to fix our streets, get the lights on. I want people to feel safe. I want to get our tax money to not be robbed by these literal criminal NGOs stealing from our tax to increase the homelessness!" "So my message isn't political. It's common sense. So I have Democrats love me. Republicans love me. Independents love me. Libertarians love me. Constitutionalists love me. It's just socialists and communists." @spencerpratt VOTE FOR THE GOLDEN AGE OF LA = Spencer Pratt
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@9mmsmg Yes. Anti-execution folks will screech about how the value of human life must be preserved in this man. But a real society must value justice beyond human life. The killer must be hanged to show that we value the victim’s life more and that justice shall be done by taking life.
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This needs to be expedited. No more 20 years on death row. No more 300 appeals. This sentence needs to be carried out immediately because every day, it's an insult to that poor little angel he killed.
Breaking911@Breaking911
BREAKING: Tanner Horner, the FedEx driver who kidnapped and murdered 7-year-old Athena Strand in Texas, has been sentenced to death.
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@zermatist For most of his fame Shapiro was an America first guy, similar to Charlie Kirk, mostly engaging a young audience. But after Oct 7 he showed his ultimate priority was Israel, which most young Americans don’t really care or think about
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How exactly do you lose 85% of your audience in a year? Isn't that kind of unheard of? Did the company just stop paying for fake audience, or did people just decide they really hate his ass that badly all of a sudden?
Popstonox@Popstonox
The Daily Wire fires half of its staff in mass layoffs This comes as co-founder Ben Shapiro has lost 85% of his Youtube audience since last year
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@RSE_VB Just look at SWO retention and their bonuses: you can sign for DH for 150k as an O2, which is more than pilots/nukes get. Keep that pulse strong and you’ll almost certainly command a ship one day
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SWOs are responsible for surface readiness. The condition of their readiness and competence is entirely their doing. I’m not going to launch into a discussion about the overall performance of SWOs versus Aviators. I don’t need to; the glaring difference has been thus for many decades.
MR T’s Haircut@MRTs_Haircut
Not a single aviator in the photo. But yes, please tell us how aviators have destroyed surface readiness.
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@breeadail One downside: SWO retention is terrible with bonuses netting +$150k from year 1-15, more than pilots or subs! Combined with the 2 crew design of LCS and there’s a huge demand for O3/4/5, and now more demand for O6s. Keep a pulse going and now you can command a big deck.
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CNO just “SWO’d” the entire Navy!
Interpretation: no more Aviators commanding Amphibs…readiness has suffered.
Surface Warfare Officers to lead:
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