MOLLE or ILBE assault pack

[radditsu]

Originally Posted by Kagatob [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Don't get me started on the space program. The single thing I liked in Bushes entire 8 years (permanent lunar base) was the first thing Obama killed with his budget plan. We'd be to Europa by now if they actually gave half a shit.

As for a navy wouldn't it be more economically feasible to just keep brown nosing the US and mooch off of their worldwide network?

you cant have air superiority in the asian theatre without carrier support and enough destroyers to shield them.


Basically to throw weight around in east asia island nations for deepwater oil fields around the Phillipines

[Lowlife]

I traded my ILBE for a british pack on Bastion and carried it my entire last A-stan deployment. Way better. try and find a surplus one.

[Malice_Mizer]

The US's long-term military and political goals in the Pacific is to hand off military responsibility to Japan and Korea, because the US can't continue its heavy presence in the region without inciting conflict with China's rising hegemonic power. They wouldn't rely on US military presence because its viewed as more of an intimidating force than protective one.

Overall, we're an adversary of China on many different fronts, and their rise poses more of an existential threat to the US and its sole global hegemonic status for the past 24 years than not, and they are well-aware of this fact. The big question is whether or not China's on-going economic growth collapse is going to continue, because their projections have just not been fulfilled for several years in a row now, and it's starting to frighten the political leadership.

[Kagatob]

Just because competition is all you've ever known doesn't mean it's the only option or even a sound idea.

Had communism only waited about two-hundred years or so...

[radditsu]

Originally Posted by Kagatob [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just because competition is all you've ever known doesn't mean it's the only option or even a sound idea.

Had communism only waited about two-hundred years or so...

You have to feed your people. You have to continue to grow and develop. I do not fault china for what they have done over the last 20 years.......in regards to economic policy and even military policy. I mean, they are ffucking awful in regards to social policy. But they have done everything america did post ww2 to become a true superpower.

Either way they are ccertainly not communist anymore. Its some fucked up hybrid.


Communism would truely only work in a post scarcity society....aka star trek

[SamwiseRed]

assault packs suck, they barely have enough space for a laptop. never used mine in the military unless it was part of some gay ass mandatory packing list.

[Malice_Mizer]

Conflict and competition is the nature of international affairs, plain and simple.

Any illusion of cooperation exists for an individual state to achieve its own stated goals and desires.

The US is working to defend its status as sole global hegemon, and China is trying to gain more power-- economic, political, and militarily, just as any other state is. Not to mention their very founding principles and ideology is rooted in the demonization of the West and capitalist culture, the US in particular.

The anti-imperialist becomes the imperialist. Isn't that always the course of human political history?

[radditsu]

Originally Posted by Malice_Mizer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Conflict and competition is the nature of international affairs, plain and simple.

Any illusion of cooperation exists for an individual state to achieve its own stated goals and desires.

The US is working to defend its status as sole global hegemon, and China is trying to gain more power-- economic, political, and militarily, just as any other state is. Not to mention their very founding principles and ideology is rooted in the demonization of the West and capitalist culture, the US in particular.

The anti-imperialist becomes the imperialist. Isn't that always the course of human political history?

Guilds begat ib.Ib begat tmo. Tmo begat future even more bullshit guild.

[runlvlzero]

MOLLE jesus fuck its simple dood.