Recent content by IKnowNothing

Maybe, maybe not. Gazan's could make the same clear eyed choice that German's did post WW2, collectively reject Hamas and it's ethos mind and soul and rebuild into the international community. The strip doesn't represent near the same Gordian Knot as the West Bank. Even with the Israeli...

They don't want the destabilizing influence the populace would introduce to their own countries. But more importantly such a course of action would effectively cement Israel's existence, improve its security, and forever remove a friction point that (as long as it exists) might be used as a...

Note that Colin said " force the Muslim States to accept Palestinians as immigrants with full citizenship rights", implying that such would be part of a broader peaceful solution, not "force the Palestinians to leave at gunpoint" A negotiated and compensated, orderly voluntary migration to...

The OECD report is a simple representation of all tax against GDP. It makes no claims about expressing the situation for the average family, but is accurately captures the system in aggregate with an appropriate relationship between numerator and denominator. The Fraser Institute (in this...

I like a lot of work that the Fraser Insitute does, but their tax stuff is incredibly misleading. It may be technically/ philosophically defensible from a certain economic school of thought of how taxes flow through/impact the economy- but it is not an accurate representation of a given persons...

The username says it all, but in my opinion: an interesting option that provides the expediency/one stop shop MOTS aspect of the American path, with the added benefit of a more even power dynamic, but the huge drawback of loss of commonality with NATO allies (sans Poland). None of the...

If customer A is 90% of your sales and owns the IP, Customer B with 10% and complete dependence is along for the ride. The best time to plant a tree was 50 (now 70) years ago, the 2nd best....

I think that comparing those two paths to improve from the status quo- Scandic Association vice American Streamlining, that the American path is undeniably the simpler, straighter line. That being said, it's not without risk. The power imbalance is already absolutely massive- complete defense...

Further to, in addition to the big ticket items, I'm sure Saab, the government of Sweden, and any NATO customer would love some (more?) munitions manufacturing capability outside of easy reach of Russia. RBS 70, GLSDB, NLAW, MAPAM and THOR mortar rounds, 84mm rounds for CG... Is there a plan...

Ok. Accepted. Assumptions/Assertions: There is no/very limited training value in spending to make the domestic tank stand ins more tank like, therefore TAPV's are fine The LRSS does not provide any kind of novel armoured (no gain in firepower, mobility, or protection) capabilty relative to the...

Outsider Answer: because we do need and do have that capability deployed elsewhere (and should be trying to expand it), and its hard to generate trained tank squadrons without them having been on a tank before arriving in theatre. That being said, we should be striving to have as many tanks as...

Re: Centauro 2, I only bring it up (continually) to highlight what is possible in the platform - to try and shake the memory of the Cougar/MGS. A high velocity 120mm and all around STANAG level 6 is a completely different beast I agree with you about the drawbacks of adding a completely new...

Inversely, couldn't you argue that getting the kit before the doctrinal shift would be the same or worse? How would you run a project to get cavalry tanks to squadrons trained and organized as armoured recce? Edit: regarding the Booker specifically- I'm not convinced it's the right choice for...

As the US will deploy M10's, the Italians will deploy their Centauro's etc. etc. A tool for every job. Flying in half squadron such to support the next decade's COIN or PSO op alongside LAV's is not the same as sending an MGS to play tank in in a peer fight. The current alternative is a TAPV...

Why didn't you quote the rest of the post that makes it pretty clear that that's a facetious retort to a facetious question?