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I think biggest threat of invasion for Australia is illegal immigration. It’s happened before, and Australia has used discrete and unconventional means to disrupt it. RAN could pro…

I need to push back on your analysis on this. Quite hard actually. Indonesia lacks the force projection capability to even project an expeditionary force into Northern Australia. S…

I think some are too focused on recruiting or conscripting citizens for fighting a kinetic conflict. For the Five Eyes(Canada, US, UK, Australia, NZ) that don’t ever need to worry …

Terrible idea. But if it mimics the rise of the same idea in Japan, it could indicate peak real estate as coincided relatively closely with the introduction of the 50 year mortgage…

Quick Sink is a very cheap solution to disrupting that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfRi2Vl3JQ

Pizza Hut opened in the Soviet Union in 1990 prior to collapse the following year. Although many might contest Pizza Hut qualifying as real pizza. :) It’s a shame authentic pizza d…

Wouldn’t total cost of ownership be a better measure? Maintenance, repair, insurance, fuel, residual value. I would think Tesla’s lower residual value from price declines would res…

I don’t understand the numerous efforts, or appeal, over decades to develop a single product combining driving with flying. Compromises due to conflicting design and regulatory req…

It might make sense to maintain a few with the 105mm gun for low intensity conflict against non state actors. But we seem to be moving at velocity towards a peer or near peer adver…

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I don’t think or believe Putin will necessarily win the war by escalating to the use of nuclear weapons. I just think he has been very consistent in “doing what he says, and saying…

It might be worth looking at Russia’s unusual nuclear doctrine of “escalate to deescalate.” I agree numerous tactical nuclear weapons would be required for combat operations, but n…

This ends, or escalates further, with the use of nuclear weapons by Russia. People can debate all day on whether Putin is a genuinely and popularly elected President, a totalitaria…

“ >Does anyone have examples of a world power funding a revolutionary force and it ending in peace and prosperity?” Solidarity in Poland, supported with plausible deniability at ar…

Camouflage for high value assets is rapidly becoming a point of focus. The Armenia-Azerbaijan war of 2020 and the Russia-Ukraine war of 2022 have both displayed the growing need to…

I wonder if your personal situation is an example of the changes we’ve seen with the increasingly central role online dating has on individuals matching with potential partners. ht…

I’m just not buying the Russian invasion story. Putin profits most from tension that maximises profit and influence. So optimise for tension beneath the threshold of war. Because w…

While it’s possible Russia could invade Ukraine, it’s probable that Russia will not. The vast majority of both Russian government revenue and Russian export earnings is energy and …

My first computer was a TRS-80 32k. It also had the CTR-41 tape deck with data transfer at roughly the speed of a good typist. I learned BASIC by copying short word game programs f…

I took the family to the Mount John Observatory near Lake Tekapo here in New Zealand thru the Dark Skies Project. It was quite impressive. As was the considerable efforts the town …

Lots of stories about this being the first recorded incident of Orcas hunting a Blue Whale. There’s at least one colour photo with the associated story of an Orca pod hunting a Blu…

60 Minutes broke this story a decade ago. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congress-trading-stock-on-insid... Due to the traction the story got, it led to the Stock Act. But once the n…

There’s a great book on Boyd written by an acquaintance of mine(Major Ian Brown) from Marine Corps University’s Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare: https://www.usmcu.e…

This i becoming quite surreal. First the Russians use very limited budget/capacity to beat Tom Cruise in making the first film in space for optics. And that’s after a series of ser…

I am so very sorry for your loss. As a parent, your post is incredibly impactful. As a company owner(20 FTE), I've had several staff take leave for catastrophic health issues in th…