As Sun Tzu put it: The best strategy is to foil the enemy's plans. The next is to disrupt their alliances. The third is to attack their army. The worst strategy is to attack their cities.
I think soon there will be Shaheds or similar drones with anti-air weapons on them (e.g. MANPADs) to fly in the flock and be a nasty surprise to any manned aircraft trying to take them out from close range in a low-cost way.
That said, as far as I know Russia isn't doing this yet, which means probably there's some difficulty to making it work, and I'd expect Russia to overcome those difficulties faster than Iran.
Excellent conversation but I assume that Justin misspoke by saying John Boyd instead of (perhaps) John Warden. There’s no way on this earth that Boyd and LeMay should ever be lumped together. And for sure not on anything related to strategic bombing.
I think his focus on air power’s ability to cause “strategic paralysis” has been taken to mean that air power can smash the moral-physical-mental links of a country and has been applied in ways that he likely would not recognize but that I think do flow from his initial thoughts. I am also fully open to being wrong, and that LeMay is a harsh comparison.
As Sun Tzu put it: The best strategy is to foil the enemy's plans. The next is to disrupt their alliances. The third is to attack their army. The worst strategy is to attack their cities.
I think soon there will be Shaheds or similar drones with anti-air weapons on them (e.g. MANPADs) to fly in the flock and be a nasty surprise to any manned aircraft trying to take them out from close range in a low-cost way.
That said, as far as I know Russia isn't doing this yet, which means probably there's some difficulty to making it work, and I'd expect Russia to overcome those difficulties faster than Iran.
What makes you think the plutonium is under rubble??
Excellent conversation but I assume that Justin misspoke by saying John Boyd instead of (perhaps) John Warden. There’s no way on this earth that Boyd and LeMay should ever be lumped together. And for sure not on anything related to strategic bombing.
I think his focus on air power’s ability to cause “strategic paralysis” has been taken to mean that air power can smash the moral-physical-mental links of a country and has been applied in ways that he likely would not recognize but that I think do flow from his initial thoughts. I am also fully open to being wrong, and that LeMay is a harsh comparison.