Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Task & Purpose" channel.

  1. They (the UN) should pay the salaries of the soldiers as well, including a danger money bonus for field (not HQ) troops at the sharp end of peacekeeping. P.S. i hate passing the buck, and politicians and generals do it all the time; the self-serving scum. I have a low opinion of the UN and all it's assciated organizations like the WHO, but that's the only feet-of-clay organization the world has got to protect the innocent and unarmed.
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  2. Russians are kind of running out of manpower. I've seen footage of a Russian infantry squads in light armoured APCs, piling out of their vehicles from a drone theat, milling around their vehicles and not dispersing to cover. This is infantry tatics 101, and i don't even have military training and i can see the potentially fatal mistakes in raw Russian recruits. This shows the real problem in Russian strategy; throw bodies at the problem until it goes away. Now, a war losing strategy.
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  3. The military-industrial complex of France is probably considering the design and production of a fifth generation warplane. Similar to the stealthy American F-35. This is an intense and large project to bring to fruition, which will take more than 10 years fully committed to bring to production. France doesn't just have to concern itself with Russian militaristic expansion on the borders of Europe. France has a number of overseas possessions in the Pacific and the Indian oceans. The Pacific is particularly important because of the tangible and every increasing expansionism from CCP China. This is not a joke; China now has more warships (in number) than the US Navy. A war in the Pacific threatens French possessions such as New Caledonia. A blockade of Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines also effects these significant EU trade nations. This is a force effect from afar.
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  4. What traditionally kills carriers? Combat aircraft (usually from other carriers) and submarines. The traditional battleship has never sunk a carrier (baby flattops in the Battle of Leyte Gulf excepted), wheras carriers have sunk many battleships. As a fleet engagement capital ship, probably there still remains nothing more powerful at sea than fleet super-carriers. It engages mutiple targets at once, for example, exemplifying huge conventional destructive power (to other ships and submarines). One anti-ship missile hit is unlikely to sink a huge Gerald R Ford class carrier either. Damage it? Yes. Sink it? Unlikely.
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  5. Like when Hitler would invade the Soviet Union in June 1941 when they signed a non-agression Pact with it less than 2 year earlier? Totally preposterous.
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  6. ​ @d_all_in Not really, it's three quarters Asian.
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  7. ​ @DonVigaDeFierro yes, one giant country, soon to collapse in size when China grabs all the Russian Far East. It's a fair cop, Russia grabbed all that Chimese territory over a century ago, plus (for some bizarre reason) Jiang Zemin gave more Chinese territory to Russia. About 910,000 square kilometres. That is a little more than the combined area of France and Germany combined!
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  8. It was the Statuate of Westminister Act 1931 that gave Australia (as a domimion of the British Empire), independence of the British parliament in most act of laws by the British parliament. Hence by 1942 and the Pacific War, Britain could not legislate for Australia's defence except to sell or lend armaments or defence personnel to Australia. Which it did in a limited way.
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  9. The "Westminster Act" correct name is the Statue of Westminster Act (1931) passed by the UK parliament in 1931, not 1942, so well before World War 2. This Act affect Canada as well. It effectively ended Australia's (and Canada's) dominion status (in the British Empire), and gave full independence to acts of law passed by Australian parliaments.
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  10. You're right to talk about fresh water as being the primary resource flowing out of Tibet, but you forgot that many rivers draining South into India also start in Tibet, namely the Ganges river upstream tributaries (this river is sacred to Hindus and probably important to the majority of Indians, otherwise). The CCP is aggressively damming these south flowing rivers into India, as assuredly as that the CCP is f**king up the mighty Mekong river in South-East Asia. A casus belli, damming our river, if there ever was one.
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  11. As capital ships, the PLAN carriers are pieces of crap; two of them are 1980s designed Soviet carriers with associated machinery and hanger space problems. Two of these Luoyang class ships lauch aircraft with a ski jump, not a catapult. None of their carriers are nuclear powered either (for long sea endurance). As for their assult rifle, how hard is it for the US military to get one or more of the PLA military assult rifles (including their sniper rifle) with all the scopes and 500 rounds of ammunition for each rifle? Then go and test them on a rifle range with a sharpshooter and test the efficiency of an experienced squad armed with these rifles in muddy field conditions? Then we can assess this effectiveness of their rifle and small unit tactics.
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  12. I don't think the USN sends 5000 dedicated and professional carrier crews and combat pilots to sea so that they can be sunk in 5 minutes. There is no.more powerful ship at sea than a carrier, period. Build all the nuclear subs that you can, you still can't rule the waves over a carrier task force. Also, think how many surface and underwater sensors are looking for you in that nuclear sub? If you're an enemy sub and a trained ASW carrier fleet is bearing down on you, i think your hours left alive are very short numbered. I would tremble as a crew member of that submarine.
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