All NSA Sullivan functionally accomplished in opposing ATACMS was to force Ukraine to field a longer range ATACMS substitute which might reach Moscow, for which the Biden Adm. has zero ability to control.🙄
Even by the lights of Western "Escalation Management" theory, causing a situation where Kyiv could be lobbing 1,000 S-200's converted into GPS ballistic missile shots into Moscow decreases stability.
But for some reason NSA Sullivan is a "Fireproof" & "To Big To Fail" figure is the Biden Administration.
So, we are going to have to live with the nasty downstream effects of NSA Sullivan's utterly silly & Russian reflexive control addled "Escalation Management" worldview🤦♂️
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It was nice to see the Institute for the Study of War admit on 10 July 2023 that the bloody obvious reality of the dysfunctional, Napoleonic era, Russian medical evacuation and care system was...
...obviously bloody.🙄
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The raw data on the barbaric Russian military medical system has been out there all this time.
This video of a Ukrainian Mavic drone dropping a grenade to clear Russian anti-tank mines is downstream from the fact Ukraine has trained one drone operator per 100 troops.
If this ATACMS report is true, I wonder how much Ukraine's use of the S-200V/D Vega / Dubna / SA-5 GAMMON in the ground to ground role inside Russian territory had to do with it?🤔
The S-200V/D Vega / Dubna, NATO code named SA-5 GAMMON, was designed an an anti-access air denial weapon to take down the SR-71 Blackbird & B-70 Valkyrie mach 3 aircraft.
The SA-5's 5V28 missile has two control laws that are selectable at launch. The short range one used
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...conventional proportional navigation (P-nav) with earth bias.
The long range control law has a steep climb and cruise at stratospheric altitude (60K to 80K feet) to a reciprocal track & dive on the target with P-nav & semi-active terminal homing via 5N62 R/F illumination. 3/
The US Army was lucky in 1940 to have the fall of France discredit the horse cavalry.
The US Navy's battleship Admirals and President Roosevelt ignored the lessons of the Fleet problem where Adm King destroyed a battle line at Pearl Harbor
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...and the British Raid on the Italian battleline at Taranto.
The vulnerability of the USN Battleline at Pearl Harbor was so politically incorrect in the US Navy after FDR fired Adm James Otto Richardson over pointing out that exact weakness...