You are very right, specially when it comes to smaller countries. An armed population must be kept ready in case of invasion, It's a sad fact, but in a word where the smaller fish get eaten there's just no other way
If I rememeber correctly, in Korea medevac helicopters were marked as per the international conventions (Geneva or Hague, not exactly sure) and they still took fire anyways.
Also, there's another issue that won't and can't be mitigated by any visual means, many aerial engagements on a peer to peer conflict happen outside of visual range and on that case any non visual IFF would have to be radio based and due to the inherent proximity of medevac missions to the forward line of contact would be very susceptible to electronic warfare. So I'd argue that red crosses on front line medevac helicopters aren't that important
You might have a point, and clearly are more experienced than I am about the inner workings of the german gov but, if they redirected what might be a dangerous letter, shouldn't they have sent it to another less bureaucratic institution instead of a random office where people would be affected for whatever dangerous stuff that's in there?
I don't know if she specifies it but, did she track it along the way? Also, it's just an airtag, why would it be sent to the constitution protection office directly and not to another department of the interior ministry (i.e EOD or any other place). Everything about this sounds weird tbh
When I read that it had something to do with the constitution protection office I knew it had to be a front for the Interior ministery. It just made sense. Really makes you wonder how many more fronts are there waitingto be discovered
As a non-american I'm starting to get a little bit tired of the american healthcare debate. All we hear is the fact that it doesn't work for a myriad of reasons, but healthcare in Europe and the other countries you guys like to quote is not as good as it might seem at a first glance and universal, state provided healthcare might not be the silver bullet people think it is for the US.
I am honestly surprised how there isn't a push for bigger energy independence. For how long will the dependency on russian gas is sustainable (politically speaking)
There's a pretty steep rise in gas prices in Europe these days related to the Ukrainian situation so I believe there must be some relation between that rise and the Kazakh prices
I agree entirely with you. That whole self-made-man concept is something that we really should try to get rid of. I am where I am because my parents built me up as a person, they taught me most of the important stuff I ever needed and when I needed a hand they bailed me out (I do need to clarify that we are not rich by any means). I wil be eternally grateful for their help and plan to do the same for my children in hopes that their children will have a bigger safety net than I did. Yes, making it all by yourself makes for a great story, but I plan to help my children as much as I can and there's nothing wrong with it
>Every actor in the game world was to have a personality, daily routines etc
There's a similar system on the stalker saga and maybe they could have built upon it? Of course making every NPC do it for itself instead of a sort of hive mind (I don't have a better term for it) sounds very difficult but sounds rather weird that they can't do some sort of similar implementation, right?
Azeri doctrine changed to reflect a more western style. Also, if you watch drone footage from the war, you'll see that the armenian infantry and armor took very few (if any) measures to mitigate that disadvantage, there's a seriously noticeable lack of dispersion, camouflage and many identifiable patterns throughout the war that could have been changed if a more western, professional approach had been taken
I believe that the Armenian defeat was caused by their soviet era tactics and command and the fact that the Azeris had a way better strategic position than the Armenians. Also, drones could have been replaced with pretty much any other plane on that war, Armenia just didn't have air superiority, air defense or mitigation tactics on the lower levels
I also believe it wasn't. Western air forces put a very big emphasis on SEAD operations. And given the fact that they are simulating an attack on soviet made (which they have fought against on multiple occasions) air defence just turning off the radar is delaying the inevitable.
There's an issue with Millenium challenge though. General Van Riper gamed the system heavily. For example, he claimed to use motorcycle messengers instead of radios, but transmitted on radio anyways. He also tried to "use" fast attack craft carrying silkworm anti ship missiles that wouldn't even fit on the type of craft he described on the exercise. It's also worth noting that many wargames are similarly scripted to account for external factors
There was a linux distro I checked out a few years ago that routed every connection through tor and also asked for permission for every app connecting to the internet and I was similarly astounded by the fact that pretty much everything is sending some sort of data and people knew nothing about
Oh, of course. I meant that in case of a server going down in an app where downtime is a crucial requirement might be useful to have some sort of structured report so that the most useful stuff is transmitted in a reliable manner
I always liked the concept of an SOP and to be honest. The structured reporting system that's used on the military should be more widely used. People rely way too much on improvising when communicating, specially in high stress environments
Yes, but I think that maybe in colder regions it's probably not cost effective. Specially in winter. So that would kind of explain why the polish salt mine mentioned earlier was important