[HN Gopher] Strategy for Competing with the Soviets in the Milit...
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       Strategy for Competing with the Soviets in the Military [pdf]
        
       Author : baxtr
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2025-05-30 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ggm wrote:
       | 1976: Andrew Marshall and James Roche.
        
         | baxtr wrote:
         | Legends. I wish today's national policies had the same
         | analytical rigor and clarity of thought.
        
       | lurk2 wrote:
       | > We frustrate ourselves in attempting to acquire "maximum"
       | capability in our deployed systems. Although we use the words, we
       | have not internalized the reality that we can no longer indulge
       | in the "rich man" strategy of insuring against all possible
       | adverse futures.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance
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       | > As early as April 2001 the United States Department of Defense
       | defined "full-spectrum superiority" (FSS) as:[1] The cumulative
       | effect of dominance in the air, land, maritime, and space domains
       | and information environment, which includes cyberspace, that
       | permits the conduct of joint operations without effective
       | opposition or prohibitive interference.
        
       | comrade1234 wrote:
       | I haven't read this. I did used to read documents like this when
       | I worked on dod/nsa projects. The software (basically command and
       | control) we write was very idealistic and I'm 100% sure would
       | have broken down now that I see how Russia is fighting in ukraine
       | and just sending meat into a grinder non-stop without end. It
       | wouldn't have been predicted.
        
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