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Point of interest. China and India did not have nuclear weapons in 1962. I wonder what effect this will have in terms of deterrence/escalation/deescalation. I guess we'll finally get to find out if two nuclear powers can really engage in limited conventional warfare without escalation. We already h...

Point of interest. China and India did not have nuclear weapons in 1962. I wonder what effect this will have in terms of deterrence/escalation/deescalation.

I guess we'll finally get to find out if two nuclear powers can really engage in limited conventional warfare without escalation.

psCargile wrote:I agree, only two ways to "win" in Afghanistan: total genocide or to leave.

True. Problem with genocide is ...its kind of hard. Soviets gave it a shot in the 80s, turned out to be a pain in the ass.

This situation is sucking up an awful lot of military resources which are desperately needed to prepare for/deter Increased Chinese aggression in the first island chain. IMO the gravest threat to core US national security interests. Access to the western pacific and the ASEAN economies will be vital...

John, I'm wondering, do you think Turkey will side with NATO or with the other Sunni states in the coming wars, or will they seek to forge their own path? How much revanchism exists among the younger generations with regard to Turkey's historical regional hegemony? I understand that this will be clo...

It has been made abundantly clear by the Trump administration that anyone or anything approaching al-tanf will be inderdicted and destroyed in the open by U.S. air power. Anyone who violates the current agreement and threatens us forces on the ground will be fully liable to be engaged and destroyed ...

Now now everyone knows that if you question the Feds "guaranteeing" of bad loans you're a racist who doesn't want poor blacks to afford a home...

If only the Chinese would send Kerry an email claiming to be an ousted Nigerian prince just enter your email password and the fortune can be yours!, then we'd really see tough guy Obama lay the smack down. Oh well.

My personal hope is that China will see that attacking the u.s. And triggering a major conflict, will render them a despised global pariah with whome nobody will want to trade or be associated with. That the word "china" will become synonymous with belligerence and evil like nazi Germany or Imperial...

Where I live it's freezing cold. Before that, it was at the bottom of a massive inland lake with a tropical climate boasting a co2 level of 400ppm, a lake which itself was left behind by the melting of what used to be a massive sheet of ice over a mile thick...I would like to know what coal plants a...