Defence and Freedom

. Why don't we run a society infiltrating and disintegrating campaign against the Russian government as it does to us? We have literally a million Ukrainians in the West, hundreds of thousand...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/10/return-fire-on-intertubes.html

. The Russo-Ukrainian War is yet again a positional war without 'proper' breakthroughs and exploitations of the same. This is similar to WWI in 1915 and 1916 and the Iraq-Iran War in the 80's. ...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/09/breakthroughs-again.html

. Some people who comment on military affairs develop an inadvisable fixation, such as everything should be "light, or everything should be "small" , "unmanned", "8x8". One might think that "el...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/09/elegance-in-procurement.html

. I keep coming back to a simplified infantry brigade meant for reservists and for small countries*. I'm convinced that such a force could be designed to be both valuable and low cost, so in es...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-keep-it-simple-reserve-brigade-of.html

. I wrote about an all-round gendarmerie designed to not be corrupt and to not launch any coup d'états as a replacement for a miniature military in (very) poor countries back in 2011 . Today...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/09/musings-on-army-personnel-policy-for.html

. Imagine the developed world well before the 1970's: blue collar workers' children would become blue collar workers, children of academics would become white collar employees. There was little...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/09/real-social-democrats.html

. The German constitution outlaws warmongering and requires that it shall be punished (article 26 ). The respective laws are §80(a) in the criminal code and §13 in the Code of crimes against...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/09/outlaw-support-for-wars-of-aggression.html

. Fantasy force designs are almost a hobby to some people with interest in military affairs. I did very largely resist this albeit I did a couple to bring some points across.Today I'll do anothe...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/08/infantry-section-force-design.html

. I could be so proud of the blogging since 2007 - so much has been confirmed by the Russo-Ukrainian War. importance of small drones importance of defences against small drones importance o...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/08/i-got-some-things-right-too.html

. (Context of the series: Musings about how Free Europe could defend itself against a U.S. after it turned full Fascist, which regrettably is a realistic scenario.) Those who defend only los...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/07/free-europes-security-challenge-if_29.html

. previous parts: /2024/07/free-europes-security-challenge-if.html /2024/07/free-europes-security-challenge-if_8.html   So what could be done for defence of Europe against American ai...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/07/free-europes-security-challenge-if_19.html

. THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES. I wrote in 2016 that one shouldn't quit NATO ASAP when America turns fascist, despite the summer of 1914 experience with Austria-Hungary .  We should quit ev...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/07/free-europes-security-challenge-if_8.html

. The risk of the United States of America turning full Fascist has entered more mainstream media. I wrote about it years ago , but there's no reward for being early. WHAT WOULD IT MEAN THREA...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/07/free-europes-security-challenge-if.html

. I wrote before about how the world's shipbuilding industry appears to be concentrated in approximately even shares in PR China, South Korea and Japan, leaving little shipbuilding in Europe and...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/05/an-achiilles-heel-of-chinese.html

. https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2016/07/theses-on-future-air-war-future-air.html Well, how did they stand the test of time? (1) Missiles such as Iskander, LORA et cetera can and s...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/05/reviewing-my-theses-on-air-power-in.html

A brigade of the line should be modestly ambitious, high end only in critical key areas (reliable instant communication in the field and ability to defeat any AFV type) and it can be designed to ...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/05/survivable-brigade-artillery-light.html

. Considering this https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/ I'd like to recommend a couple past blog posts to you: /2019/12/lets-open-our-eyes-to-ugly-r...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-reminder.html

. Around 2011 I wrote multiple times about a scenario of a Russian surprise attack on NATO (at the only kind of attack that makes kinda sense, for it's the only scenario that gives the Russians...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/05/about-high-low-army-mixes-for-todays.html

. The Russian air defences face a double problem; they are stretched thin and they don't get sufficient support by the flying air force, especially not by AEW aircraft (colloquially a.k.a. AWAC...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/04/russian-vulnerabilities-i-air-defences.html

. I studied warfare for a very long time, and it's self-evident to me how much of an industrial effort both world wars, the Korean War and the Vietnam War were. I looked at tables showing how m...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/03/mobilisation-part-iv-industry.html

. I believe that the ability to end a RUS-NATO war with a RUS threat of using 'tactical' nukes against attempts of reconquest (and against airbases) is an essential requirement for Russia to dar...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-russian-tactical-nuclear-threat.html

. Major wars usually show the very same thing; insufficient (quantity) training of reserve leaders pre-war leads to too short training of leaders in wartime. Well-known examples include the Amer...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/03/mobilisation-part-iii-personnel.html

. Warships are peculiar; you do not need to commission them in a port. Prize ships were commissioned as warships at sea during both World Wars. This means that the Ukraine could take possessi...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-ukrainian-merchant-raider.html

. "ESCALATORY" This word has been used a lot recently, typically by people who oppose aiding Ukraine to defend itself against the Russian aggression. The fear of escalation guides the thorou...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/03/mobilisation-part-ii-escalatory.html

. The French were keen to reconquer Alsace-Lothringia after 1871. They conscripted to the maximum (about 75% of young men were deemed fit and pressed into service), trained many officers, intro...

https://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2024/03/mobilization-part-i-need-to-counter.html