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Bill Hall
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Bill Hall
@ReiverHall
Husband, Dad, Home-brewer, Paralegal, Gunner (Ret’d), He/Him/Il
Ottawa, Ontario Katılım Ekim 2015
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Isn’t this playbook from the 1950s how we got here today?
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara
John Bolton just laid out the exact CIA playbook for overthrowing Iran on live TV. He details how the US must fund the opposition, arm ethnic groups, and bribe army generals to trigger a total internal collapse and civil war. Absolute insanity broadcasted openly.
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@mikenelson586 @RadioFreeTom Does it matter if the Secretary of Defense is popular, or unpopular?
They aren’t elected, and don’t answer to the electorate. Their boss does, but unless POTUS is up for re-election, or is dismissive of public opinion it seems irrelevant.
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He's like the Bizarro Sally Field
"They don't like you. They really really don't like you"
AF Post@AFpost
Hegseth has broken the record for the least popular wartime Secretary of Defense, underwater by -17 points. Follow: @AFpost
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@ericvan74374932 The plan envisaged conscripting Canadian trucks, and confiscating US trucks to solve the transport issue. And recommended mounting machine guns on the truck beds for quick moving firepower - anticipating the Technical by about 80 years.
The absence of joint planning is worse.
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@ReiverHall True enough - Brown's plan suffered from a major lack of transport, especially in the withdrawal phase, but at least would have made the US think. The PG conflict has no clear goals so it isn't worth considering resources.
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Co-operation;
Neither plan shows up well here. Col Brown didn’t even show the plan to the MND, the RCN, or the Imperial General Staff.
The US didn’t give the countries where they based aircraft notice of attack & are now trying to get allies after a year of slagging NATO.
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@WonderKing82 Can we throw in the sex trafficking as well? Oh, and the running from the consequences of their actions.
But the fact they’re rapists shouldn’t be glossed over.
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@ericvan74374932 Brown’s plan was fatally flawed due to a critical lack of resources, but serious thought was put into it and if properly resourced with people and kit….
The current PG operation seems worse due to a lack of aim and the gap between the goals & the means selected to achieve them.
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@ReiverHall We can argue whether or not Defense Scheme #1 would have worked (probably not) but at least Buster Brown's plan for the defense of Canada had some serious thought put into it.
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Concentration of force;
Right now the US is playing whack a mole with Iran’s mobile launchers, ships etc. over most of the country. While the US’s sole ally has launched a side campaign.
DS1 had 5 axes of advance, each focussed on specific industrial, population or rail hubs.
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Surprise;
The build up of forces around Iran in the run up to the war really only meant the exact start time was in question. And the deployment of a MEF is even less of a surprise.
DS1 was based around operational surprise - who expected Canada to launch an invasion?
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It’s fairly hypothetical, but I think if threatened, 1920s Canada would likely have rallied around the idea of defending the homeland, maybe not 15 Divisions of troops worth, but enough.
Meanwhile, only 1/2 of the US favours war with Iran
pbs.org/newshour/show/…
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For 3 weeks this has been bothering me - how does a country execute a plan seemingly worse than Defense Scheme No.1?
For those not familiar, DS1 was a plan to defend Canada in the event of a war between the US and the Commonwealth, with Canada as the theatre of operations.
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It was built around the idea of a “the best defence is a good offence” and planned to invade the US with 15 Divisions, and once stopped, begin a fighting retreat back to Canada, destroying railways and bridges to slow the US down until Imperial reinforcements arrived.
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