Club-K
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These days ORAC?
What with no Nimrod and six ships to defend the coastline?
....I suppose some of those extra twenty Chinooks we're buying could perform constant Maritime Patrol couldn't they?
What with no Nimrod and six ships to defend the coastline?
....I suppose some of those extra twenty Chinooks we're buying could perform constant Maritime Patrol couldn't they?
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The most profitable military delivery systems have always been a bad joke, compared with more ubiquitous and effective means available for the most provocative of "sneak attacks" imaginable and feasible. Club-K is nothing game-changing in reality. But reality is very far from general public perceptions in the USA concerning such matters (real threats and effective deterrents/responses to such threats). When common awareness includes consideration of the limitless lethal applications and adaptations of our technoscape, the shift of awareness will be profoundly game-changing, and much for the better.
If it were to become common knowledge in the USA that defense industries in open societies can never offer the protections that are being intensively advertised for unprecedented profit, profound economic and political change would swiftly follow in a sweeping change of national outlook and trajectory.
We will regardless remain increasingly vulnerable to the physical potential for terrorist provocations, because lethal devices/adaptations and delivery systems will continue to advance along with every other technology. Such vulnerabilities are an inescapable given, so long as we can't de-invent or shut down our technologies and our individual freedoms. Our greatest vulnerability, or the greatest vulnerability being misaddressed is not in the real and persistent possibility of "terrorist" or "sneak" attacks, especially those lacking military and foreign-national wrappers.
Our greatest vulnerability is the increasingly-obsolete but heavily-promoted notion that massive military mobilizations are the intelligent and effective responses to criminal conversions of ubiquitous materials and systems (shipping containers, airliners, etc) into deadly lures that lead militaristic nations into rapidly over-extending and expending national wealth, hegemony, and binding principles.
In the USA we are purchasing at crippling cost the most obsolete and ineffective national-defense apparatus in human history, even while the ineffectiveness of our stupendous military apparatus is plain to all with willingness to observe events. We are a nation laboring to support an immense military industry, while we remain in deep and cultivated denial and confusion about security realities.
We are heavily discouraged from considering and speaking of our colossal national delusion and vulnerability, because the largest part of the US economy is based on gross distortion of public perception of national-security threats. We are maintaining at disastrous cost a gigantic defense apparatus and doctrine that are simply not reality-based.
If shipping-container launchers and their implications really surprised you, then (I'm sorry) you have been sorely deceived. US panic and rampage can be easily provoked at any time, with no military, state, or religious packaging necessary. It's high time for all of us to catch up to real-world situational-awareness.
Yes, life is and will always remain dangerous, and even lethal in the isolated and tragic moments when our pervasive and advancing technology is criminally diverted by the angry and insane. But the danger to our societies and nations will be greatly compounded beyond that inescapable and manageable, risk if we remain an incapacitated as a nation, handicapped in public situational awareness, and hobbled in terms of anticipating likely threats. If we remain irrational about scaling and focusing our deterrence of, and responses to all possible sneaky and nasty provocations, then we are doing nothing less than setting the USA up as history's biggest and dumbest Goliath, and screaming to a million determined Davids- "Bring It On". /rant
If it were to become common knowledge in the USA that defense industries in open societies can never offer the protections that are being intensively advertised for unprecedented profit, profound economic and political change would swiftly follow in a sweeping change of national outlook and trajectory.
We will regardless remain increasingly vulnerable to the physical potential for terrorist provocations, because lethal devices/adaptations and delivery systems will continue to advance along with every other technology. Such vulnerabilities are an inescapable given, so long as we can't de-invent or shut down our technologies and our individual freedoms. Our greatest vulnerability, or the greatest vulnerability being misaddressed is not in the real and persistent possibility of "terrorist" or "sneak" attacks, especially those lacking military and foreign-national wrappers.
Our greatest vulnerability is the increasingly-obsolete but heavily-promoted notion that massive military mobilizations are the intelligent and effective responses to criminal conversions of ubiquitous materials and systems (shipping containers, airliners, etc) into deadly lures that lead militaristic nations into rapidly over-extending and expending national wealth, hegemony, and binding principles.
In the USA we are purchasing at crippling cost the most obsolete and ineffective national-defense apparatus in human history, even while the ineffectiveness of our stupendous military apparatus is plain to all with willingness to observe events. We are a nation laboring to support an immense military industry, while we remain in deep and cultivated denial and confusion about security realities.
We are heavily discouraged from considering and speaking of our colossal national delusion and vulnerability, because the largest part of the US economy is based on gross distortion of public perception of national-security threats. We are maintaining at disastrous cost a gigantic defense apparatus and doctrine that are simply not reality-based.
If shipping-container launchers and their implications really surprised you, then (I'm sorry) you have been sorely deceived. US panic and rampage can be easily provoked at any time, with no military, state, or religious packaging necessary. It's high time for all of us to catch up to real-world situational-awareness.
Yes, life is and will always remain dangerous, and even lethal in the isolated and tragic moments when our pervasive and advancing technology is criminally diverted by the angry and insane. But the danger to our societies and nations will be greatly compounded beyond that inescapable and manageable, risk if we remain an incapacitated as a nation, handicapped in public situational awareness, and hobbled in terms of anticipating likely threats. If we remain irrational about scaling and focusing our deterrence of, and responses to all possible sneaky and nasty provocations, then we are doing nothing less than setting the USA up as history's biggest and dumbest Goliath, and screaming to a million determined Davids- "Bring It On". /rant
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Remove that subversive toy at once! You will confuse loyal citizens, and give the bad guys ideas: We're only authorized to spread fear of our properly-branded enemies, like Saddam, the Taliban, and Iran, not... 
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