A focus on the maritime domain moves any strategy discussion away from the political and military challenges with striking the Chinese mainland or fighting close to it. Geography that is unfavorable for a short range, high-intensity operation is much more favorable for a long-acting strategy fought from a distance, turning a U. We should plan on fighting across and through domains as much as within them.
Late recognition by the United States of both the nature and the magnitude of the Chinese air and missile threat has placed us in an untenable position. We cannot today fight China at close range — and we should not expect that we would develop magic technologies that will enable us to do so in the future.
Aside from the obvious cost issues and the deleterious effect of a moribund and ineffective acquisition system, geography trumps technology in the Western Pacific. We cannot attempt to repeat our successful template against Iraq , which used short-range airpower and nearby bases. Any assertion that we can bomb China into submission is at odds with historical reality, our limited magazine depth, and a hardened and distributed military target set.
The Chinese regime survived the Cultural Revolution, and they could survive a short conventional air campaign even if we could execute one. The Pacific War was largely a long-duration counterlogistics strategy fought over the maritime domain from inside and outside the domain itself.
This time we have advantages that we did not have in World War II — Japan is a strong ally and the Philippines are not an occupied nation that we need to return to. But the similarities are striking — China is almost completely dependent on maritime traffic for survival.
The trade links and supply lines that exist overland are grossly insufficient to make up any lack caused by maritime interdiction. A more tailored variant of maritime interdiction or offshore control , strategic interdiction SI is a targeted, four-element campaign to interdict the production and transport of energy resources:.
The objective is to constrain military forces by starving them of energy. The proximate targets are naval and air forces, which rely on jet fuel and maritime diesel, leaving China to fight with domestic priorities for diesel fuel and gasoline.
It is necessarily a long war strategy that takes time to implement. It departs from traditional kinetic-focused attacks, as it is a distant interdiction strategy enhanced by kinetic attacks and cyber on critical process chokepoints on the mainland.
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Forgot your username or password? The card being at '3' is stupid given there are tons of superior options to CC which is really only broken for activating skills and is worse on the ladder than Cosmic Cyclone in most instances and that's pretty much all its really sharing space with. Invoked don't care about it so it's not competing with Palace. The best deck in the game can still play broken semi-limited cards.
User Info: encrypted encrypted 1 year ago 2 WC only got a slap on the wrist because it was so new the fact that they even got that slap so soon was a surprise, but maybe that only shows how strong WC Lightsworn is.
User Info: Ice32 Ice32 1 year ago 5 I dont see anything over powering or over centralizing in lightsworns. HOT take here but why is this card still limited?
General Event Discussion Topic - Part 3. Help with a Gouki Rogue Deck? The brigade had just accelerated to a trot when Captain Nolan surged ahead of the first line, shouting and waving his sword. He may have realised that Cardigan was not going to wheel to the right to attack the redoubts, and was trying to correct the error; or he may simply have been urging the brigade on. We will never know. With just 50 yards separating him from Cardigan, a shell burst between them.
Nolan gave a ghastly shriek and dropped his sword. A twitch of his bridle hand caused his horse to turn and gallop back through the advancing squadrons. He then fell to the ground. A fragment of shell had pierced his heart, killing him instantly. Onward the brigade rode into that terrible crossfire. Close in! With the front rank just 80 yards from the battery, the Russians fired a point-blank salvo of grapeshot that brought down men and horses in heaps.
Five officers were among the dead, but Cardigan rode on unscathed. I never saw anything like it. They seemed perfectly irresistible, and our fellows were quite demoralised.
When the battered remnant of the around men of the Light Brigade formed up near the same ground they had charged from 25 minutes earlier, only men were still mounted. Even with the return of stragglers, the losses were crippling: men killed, wounded and 50 missing most of them captured.
The number of dead horses was almost
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