I think the bigger problem is somewhere around Korea we decided to never fight an all-out war again. I think a combination of Russia with nukes heaped on top of the military-industrial complex pushed the powers that be into the mindset of forever war, the low-grade simmering kind that chewed up American youth but keep putting money in their pockets. Never go all-out, never actually win, but always get richer.
This is basically what happened, as ironic as it is nukes are one of the greater peacekeeping tools on the planet. There is one other thing to be taken into account though, even with nukes off the table the Anaconda doctrine has a severe weakness. Land borders that are not adjacent to your own are much, much harder to interdict than sea lanes. Witness our botched efforts with the Ho Chi Minh trail.
In a future post I will go over the fact that there were no good results in the (un)civil war, even by the standards of historical civil wars that was not something that had to ever occur.
Only with the removal of the neocons, deep state, and foreign parasites will this occur. You cannot negotiate with or change the minds of the ideologue.
Interesting perspective, I've studied American Civil War history and understood the Anaconda Plan, but didn't make the connection with American military doctrine since then. The only problem with the subject matter is it tends to pull the idiots who want to refight, not study, the Civil War out of the woodwork
I think the bigger problem is somewhere around Korea we decided to never fight an all-out war again. I think a combination of Russia with nukes heaped on top of the military-industrial complex pushed the powers that be into the mindset of forever war, the low-grade simmering kind that chewed up American youth but keep putting money in their pockets. Never go all-out, never actually win, but always get richer.
This is basically what happened, as ironic as it is nukes are one of the greater peacekeeping tools on the planet. There is one other thing to be taken into account though, even with nukes off the table the Anaconda doctrine has a severe weakness. Land borders that are not adjacent to your own are much, much harder to interdict than sea lanes. Witness our botched efforts with the Ho Chi Minh trail.
The only good result was the reaping of so many Yankee invaders.
Fuck ‘em.
In a future post I will go over the fact that there were no good results in the (un)civil war, even by the standards of historical civil wars that was not something that had to ever occur.
What would be a better option? And how to we convince the powers in charge not to commit us to wars they are unwilling to let us win?
Only with the removal of the neocons, deep state, and foreign parasites will this occur. You cannot negotiate with or change the minds of the ideologue.
Other than technology, there has been nothing new since Sun Tzu. Diplomacy has been more dynamic but nothing new there since Bismarck.
Interesting perspective, I've studied American Civil War history and understood the Anaconda Plan, but didn't make the connection with American military doctrine since then. The only problem with the subject matter is it tends to pull the idiots who want to refight, not study, the Civil War out of the woodwork
Can't blame the southerners for wanting to refight it, the woke campaign against the four olds has reopened those wounds.