[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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