Jams O'Donnell

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• Howard NYC commented on Decision Fatigue
  there's "carpet bombing" and then there's "precision bombing" for varying definitions of "precision"... smart(er) bombs which are more likely to hit the desired target... a sniper's bullet patiently awaiting a specific head in the crowd to be in clear line of sight... knowing which wire to cut to wreck a U235/U238 purification facility... what all those have in common? intel the better the intel the less effort to succeed at hurting the enemy and with lowered 'collateral damage' what the US learnt from the Israelis has been patience and accuracy and assembling vast mappings of interconnections to locate weakest links......
• Troutwaxer commented on Decision Fatigue
  It's also a matter of record that dictators don't like talented military officers. They're the ones who have the necessary strategic and tactical capabilities to overthrow the dictator, so they're frequently killed by their own side, because the dictator remaining in power is more important than winning a war of aggression....
• Howard NYC commented on Decision Fatigue
  context = Russia Stalin having become infamous for 300 (350?) seniormost officers executed during WW2 including during darkest days after Hitler reneged on their quasi-alliance... but there's a difference between execution due to paranoia of a dictator and higher than expected fatality rates on the battlefield a plausible scenario that NATO could have quietly circulated was 'grinding down' of RUS to ensure it is unable to be a threat for a full decade after end of RUS-UKR war another all too plausible scenario being internal strife amongst Kremlin inner circle has been leading towards deciding whomever is to be Putin's...
• Pigeon commented on Decision Fatigue
  Which would you expect a USSR type to be more likely to describe as a tragedy - victory in the Great Patriotic War, or defeat in economic war 45-odd years later?...
• Mike Collins commented on Decision Fatigue
  That quote of Putin is cherry picked. I just heard on Radio 4 what came before “For the millions of Russians stranded outside their Motherland ..”...