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Re: Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location

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Post by no_exit » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 1:56 AM UTC

wbl wrote: post #15

paganel wrote: post #14

> making it easier for journalists, courts, and researchers to connect commanders to their subordinates’ actions. We all know that G.W. Bush and Tony Blair were at the top of their countries' chains of command during the illegal invasion of Iraq and yet, here we are, they're free of any International Penal Court meddling. Which is to say that maybe these guys and ladies here should focus their "desire for war-justice…

When we found out that soldiers in Iraq were mistreating prisoners we put them all on trial and gave the guy who said this wasn't right a medal. What the Burmese military does to maintain its sixty year old dictatorship is wanton murder of civilians.

> we put them all on trial

All the mooks, maybe.

Re: Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location

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Post by aaron695 » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 6:39 AM UTC

sorokod wrote: post #8

trhway wrote: post #3

There is a reason Russian forces are wearing face-covers in Ukraine. That anonymity even became integral part of the official propaganda with the country plastered with images with covered faces like this https://ok.ru/group/53906516017252/album/922573735012/931001...

Amusingly, the slogan on the right hand side says: "we don't start wars, we finish them".

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Re: Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location

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Post by trhway » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 10:06 AM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #26

trhway wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't matter. That is for example painted poster https://www.ozon.ru/product/poster-100-na-65-sm-plakat-voenn... or another https://stihi.ru/pics/2024/06/14/4714.jpg (and if it reminds you something with 4-limbed symbol from 80+ years ago - it isn't an accident, it is the nature of the current regime in Russia) While it sounds like a pun, there is no "trigger discipline" in Russia (I myself an ROTC officer). In…

There is a little more to Russian rules. They don't allow carry with a round chambered. They find it very dangerous that so many american guns are carried at the ready. With no round chambered, the trigger is far less of a worry.

Absolutely. It is so fundamental, at the instinct level almost, that it didn't even came to my mind to mention it. Until absolutely necessary, you never chamber your weapon - "what if the trigger gets accidentally pulled!" :)

Even military guards on duty are by the military regulations explicitly prohibited from chambering their weapon until necessary:

209. Часовому запрещается: ..., досылать без необходимости патрон в патронник, ...

and only when the guarded security perimeter is about to be breached and the guard has already issued 2 verbal warnings, only then the guard chambers the round and makes the first warning shot toward the sky:

211. ... Если нарушитель после предупреждения "Стой, стрелять буду" продолжает движение, часовой досылает патрон в патронник и производит предупредительный выстрел вверх.

Re: Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location

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Post by nikodotio » Sat, Feb 01, 2025, 8:35 AM UTC

throwup238 wrote: post #2

> Together, we re–developed the data format and domain logic to fit both the ergonomics of existing research tools and to allow for easy analysis. That is some weapons grade marketing speak. The rest of the article is relatively interesting once they get to their use of Datomic/Datalog but it was really hard to get past that BS.

Hello! Author here: what I was trying to say with this line is “we didn’t charge them for building tools they didn’t need or changing the way they work” — but I very much appreciate the feedback!