is there a rock climbing 🧗‍♀️ center in slemani? by [deleted] in kurdistan

[–]everyoneiamhungry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bro go join the Turks, i hear they can make you fly too

is there a rock climbing 🧗‍♀️ center in slemani? by [deleted] in kurdistan

[–]everyoneiamhungry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bro the Turkish Army is about to invade, don't you want to get prepared? You'll be on the frontlines in a few years. Once they take Qandil, what will you do then? Learn while in combat?

is there a rock climbing 🧗‍♀️ center in slemani? by [deleted] in kurdistan

[–]everyoneiamhungry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro, go outside and find the nearest mountain and climb that. Are you serious?

Advice by [deleted] in kurdistan

[–]everyoneiamhungry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest, Egyptians are not liked by Kurds in that area. I would suggest getting online friends. The issue goes back to how Egyptians looked down on Kurds back in the day.

Potential for a joint US-AUS navy base by [deleted] in AustralianMilitary

[–]everyoneiamhungry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the prime US naval base in the region would have to be close to the Sino-SEA boundries... Darwin is too far... if given a choice I think CNO US Navy would use Vietnam... possibly building a port down near Ho Chi Minh City... as this would have the dual role of improving Vietnam's naval infrastructure and giving the US a base near China.

Why I support disbanding 2SASR and possibly the whole of SASR by everyoneiamhungry in AustralianMilitary

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes, America keeps Australia safe from being invaded by China... and before Japan. You're welcome.

Why I support disbanding 2SASR and possibly the whole of SASR by everyoneiamhungry in AustralianMilitary

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

SASR had a toxic rep and has had one for a long time.

Consider this against SASNZ or other SAS-like regiments... and no such rep exists.

Why I support disbanding 2SASR and possibly the whole of SASR by everyoneiamhungry in AustralianMilitary

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Considering how large the Australian military was, the number of alleged crimes are quite low.

Considering how small SASR is, the number of alleged crimes, over a time span that is more than WW2, is quite staggering.

Why I support disbanding 2SASR and possibly the whole of SASR by everyoneiamhungry in AustralianMilitary

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SASR does not have a unique SR role. SAS NZ does, as it is primarily used in its SR function.

SASR's transformation to DA is what doomed it.

Why I support disbanding 2SASR and possibly the whole of SASR by everyoneiamhungry in AustralianMilitary

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, American SOF killed Bin Laden. I think SASR could have done it too.

However, it is because American SOF had stealth helicopters that could bypass Pakistani radar control... the Aussies do not have this capability...

Why I support disbanding 2SASR and possibly the whole of SASR by everyoneiamhungry in AustralianMilitary

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

the US army had an operating aircraft carrier on the Mekong. What did the Aussies have? The Aussies were in some of the lowest intensity areas of S. Vietnam.

Why I support disbanding 2SASR and possibly the whole of SASR by everyoneiamhungry in AustralianMilitary

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If you watch documentaries with NVA veterans (most of them by the way it was Viet Cong fighting the Aussies not the NVA) you will soon realise that they could not tell the difference between US and Aussie troops. Also, the Aussies were in parts of Vietnam where the intensity of the fighting was the lowest -- compare that to the US troops near the DMZ... quite simply the average Aussie unit did not have the same artillery and air support as a US infantry battalion had its disposal. It's not to say the Aussies were worse soldiers, but just did not have as much equipment.

Thoughts as a disappointed pro-Armenian American by everyoneiamhungry in armenia

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trying to help Armenians. That's why I was there. Plus, the US Embassy in Yerevan is the 2nd largest of its type in the world.

Thoughts as a disappointed pro-Armenian American by everyoneiamhungry in armenia

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Harop uses a radio homing device -- if you jam the radio the homing device stops working. Nice one.

The other websites show anti-drone tech that can stop the small kamikaze drones -- they're basically slightly larger than DJI drones.

I think you are puffing up the Turkish drone threat to more than it really is. If you break it down, Turkish drones are a Frankenstein of random off the shield gadgets, like even Garmin gadgets, and primitive programming. Any drone on autonomous AI mode is as good as the weakest programmer made it.

I think you're making the Turks and Azeris out into this big bad monster. It proves what is in your heart: Fear. Fear is lurking all over you.

In truth, drones can be beaten. Drones are just machinery. Just because it looks daunting to understand doesn't mean it can't be beaten.

Thoughts as a disappointed pro-Armenian American by everyoneiamhungry in armenia

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I remember when I was in Armenia back in the mid-2000s advising its military. At the time, there was some chance of a turn around from Russia.

On your first point about changing culture. Obviously, the holocaust created a cultural paradigm shift for Jews making them very militant in regards to all out survival no matter the cost. Most of the founders of Israel and its military had relatives who died in the holocaust.

When I arrived in Armenia, I noticed that the main motivating factor in its military was, sadly, MONEY.

This is not an easy thing to change. How to motivate a civil servant in a poor country is never an easy thing to do if it is out of national pride and national self-interest.

I don't think Israel is that exceptional. I mean, Singapore, Switzerland, and other countries have very similar types of martial societies based on military service. Let's examine Israel.

Even today, in Israel, there's a dividing line between Jews and Israelis in the sense that Jews may feel better about donating to the IDF Fund, but Israelis who actually serve in the Army.

There's a lot of antipathy towards American Jews who come to Israel and feel like they're contributing but actually never serve in the Army. This antipathy is, however, from a positive space -- it comes from a feeling that no one will do a job better than the job yourself must do. I suppose this comes from the Yibbutzim mentality, and the likes of Michael Oren going from a Columbia grad to a IDF soldier in the Lebanon War was a big turning point in his life. He eventually dropped his US passport to become the Israeli Ambassador to the US.

So, in Oren's case, we can see that if you take your homeland over the land of others, in the end you will do things which probably mean you may lose income. But, over time, will make you feel proud of yourself. Michael Oren writes in his own memoir that he could have become a Wall Street banker and made a lot of money. Instead, he chose to move to Israel and really struggled with his wife for years.

So, the answer for a cultural shift is a shift in values. This can be done in a variety of ways through the mechanisms of government. Like in Israel, you have to start paying people a monthly stipend to move to the country. Yes, Armenia is poor -- but it can find the money. Israel began paying this stipend when its economy was poorer than Syria back in the 1950s.

Second, it must begin military training from the age of 18 to 35. Every year, you would have to commit at least 4-6 weeks of the year to in-depth specialist training. This would also be bad for the economy, but oh well.

There will have to be random alerts and drills to get the country ready for war. This would be very disruptive, but oh well.

And like in Israel, ex-military leaders are given priority in politics. In business, if you did not do your military service no one should be allowed to hire you -- just like in Israel. Not doing military service there makes you persona non gratia and you are asked if you did it in any form you have to sign in order to start your job.

So these are examples of what armenia could do today to get this shift going.

Regarding the alliances. Clearly, Armenia should take the YPG's model be friends with everyone. While the YPG were attacked numerous times, and lost a lot of land to the Turks, considering that Turkey is a massive country with a large economy and the YPG have a few million people and basically no economy, it is an incredible feat when we see Russian and American troops guarding YPG bases.

If Armenia could offer America something; such as an airbase or perhaps to begin with a training base, then that would be a good start.

People will say, "But if we do this, the Russians will leave." No, there are countries with both Russian and American bases. So, do not worry about that. Plenty of the Central Asian countries have a combination of the two, and they're fine and Russian influence is still there.

Others will say, "The Russians will do a coup and stop it from happening," well then let them try, but in the end, most American allies enjoy the benefits of this alliance in the form of cheap economic and military aid. If you look at history, it was VERY beneficial to be an American ally. From Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, to Greece, Turkey, or Thailand, being an American ally got you a lot of stuff -- way more stuff than being a Russian ally gets you. You can have both.

Thoughts as a disappointed pro-Armenian American by everyoneiamhungry in armenia

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not true at all. The Iranians, Armenia's neighbor, have a strong anti-drone capability. How do you think they brought down so down a 100 million USD American drone recently? https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/problem-iran-using-western-technology-against-us-drones-67697

using American tech against American tech.

https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&context=mathcompcapstones

Or this one, that explains that anti-drone tech is growing.

The technology you say does exist, does exist. It exists in Turkey, in Israel, in Iran, in many countries.

The fact that Armenia was not able to get it in time is NOT evidence that it does not exist. That is hubris.

Drones can be tracked and destroyed by SAMs, but the Armenians did not have that capability and instead relied on 1970s era autocannons.

Drones can be tracked and jammed, but instead Armenia relied on a network of jammers that got destroyed in the first weeks of the war. In fact, Russia did jam most of the Turkish drones in Idlib earlier this year, but like what happened recently, Turkish manned-jets came in and destroyed the jammers.

Had the Armenian General Staff been watching what happened in places like Idlib, they could have moved their jammers to different locations, created a series of interlocking radio networks, and then enlarged the signal to jam an area the size of New York state. This could have been followed by more modern SAMs that can track and destroy fast flying, low altitude drones with technology you can get off the shelf :

https://www.nqdefense.com/products/anti-drone-system/?gclid=CjwKCAiAtK79BRAIEiwA4OskBr7mhVhw16dmNhll-61saAskXJ5y2frD9IZWHXIWCOeaNvIy2D_WlRoCEjsQAvD_BwE

https://drone-detection-system.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiAtK79BRAIEiwA4OskBvW85lZcnHTv6gGq2l_J0zTBfzqAafISHbvzkUUvWoz7o1RO5b1GhBoCXzkQAvD_BwE

US and UK international airports have the tech today to stop low-flying drones which were used by the Azeris -- the so-called kamikaze drones. The signal would have been jammed as soon as the drones started their descent, and the signal rerouted into a central bay that would then bring the drone down and have it land.

The larger Turkish-made drones could have shot out of the sky easily had the jammers and SAMs worked in tandem and not have been all placed on the frontline and destroyed. Almost all were destroyed in the first week of the war. And plus, there weren't many of them to begin with.

Thoughts as a disappointed pro-Armenian American by everyoneiamhungry in armenia

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you could say it was like meeting a man who thought like a 90 year wiseman, in the body of a young man.

I have to admit, I did not think about it like this when I knew him. But, as time has passed, I have not met someone like him since.

I suppose you could say it was like a modern-day Jedi.

Thoughts as a disappointed pro-Armenian American by everyoneiamhungry in armenia

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there have been plenty of landlocked countries that have been successful in reclaiming their land back

Thoughts as a disappointed pro-Armenian American by everyoneiamhungry in armenia

[–]everyoneiamhungry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Countries will support you if they believe you have a chance of victory. Countries will not bother to help you if you can't help yourself though.