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neither side has been able to fully use the air.

yes, that i can agree with. its a gradient and not black and white. for the record, i count gerrymandering are a type of corruption too.

yes, individual battles make up a war, but pointing out individual battles does not paint the whole picture of the war, except in cases where a single battle was more or less the whole war. the article specifically looked at naval wars and said the larger navy won more naval wars historically...

no shit genius. i had literally never said things like supply dont matter. i asked why you bring up individual battles, as important as they may be, when the article talks about war. yes you can win individual battles, important ones even, the article also said, larger navies are also able to...

3 weeks ago? i was probably vacationing. I'm all for purging the corrupt, east or west. sometimes the corrupt also bring benefits. ie: a guy who take million dollar bribes but bring billion dollar benefits to the economy , those i can stand...for a time.

its a fiasco to oust corrupt officials now? dont tell me you think hes innocent.

@jhungary @gambit they are talking about naval wars. not individual battles. why are you guys bringing up battles? yea the us won over japan. but the start of war was meh, with Japan running around in the east pacific however it wished, until us production kicked it and demonstrates exactly...

obvious rigged exercise. F-16V are a little hobbled by the fact that taiwan uses old air frames and old engines to power all the new electronics so its sluggish. but it shouldn't be any worse than mirage 2000s thrust to weight. plus its new aesa and electronics should run circles around mirage...

you know rotation of troops is what all professional militaries do? but then i don't expect Indians to understand how to run a professional military. i mean if they want to be like imperial japan, where they left their best troops on the front lines until they died, then have barely trained...

thank? why? if it wasn't for us interference in the first place, there would be no taiwan problem today. and today is not 1970-80. china could not mount an invasion of taiwan island with any chance of success back then. people often forget that the RoC military was far more powerful and...

most serious and realistic war games are not published. those that are is pretty much just propaganda. either for more military funds or to sounds strong. the cnn report doesn't even make sense. in what world does a all out chinese reunification war see RoC only suffer only 3600 military dead...

taiwan is crawling with mainland spies. the second a serious nuclear program is started(and nowhere near finished), the war begins.

what do you mean why? can BD even build 100,000 dwt oil tanker/cargo carriers? and if it can, can it compete in cost?? these arent military ships, these are civilians one, and they mainly compete on cost. this is what the world civilian ship building market in the first half of 2022 looks...

yea, just politicians doing politician things. that said, its well known that russia is having a ton of problems just trying to refurb adm Kuznetsov. I highly doubt they can build a brand new 65,000 ton carrier, not without massive upgrades to their ship yards anyhow. could maybe build smaller...

its possible now. not only at indian lifestyles (medium low) but at least at chinese life styles (medium high) china is 90%+ self sufficient in grains and thats with less mechanization that a place like the us. and china supports 1.4 billion people. india, while smaller overall than china...