I can recommend some good books if any one is interested, but 20,000 troops even if sent every week to the front lines is not even close to the buildup you would see if ww3 officially kicked off, or was even months away and is ramping up.
Book recommendations are always welcome. I appreciate your input as I don't have a military background so don't know much about deployments. Just one more thing I can educate myself on. The grey matter is weary, feeling like a soaked sponge already.
“Hell to Pay” is a fantastic read that breaks down the numbers involved in operation downfall, essentially the numbers used to justify nuking Japan. World wars fascinate me because of just that, the scale at which they occur. “Stalingrad- the fateful siege” is another good one that details troop movements and battles just for Stalingrad. I certainly don’t mean to discourage looking into this sort of thing, quite the contrary, but if ww3 kicked off hot right now, millions of bodies and millions of tons of materiel would be moving towards Russia/Ukraine.
Thanks for the suggestions. While I don't know very much about military-deployments, I do read quite a lot of news, even wading into the cesspool of FNM. I suppose that's helped me in discernment about the difference in what's actually being stated vs what's perhaps being just implied.
That tweet (referenced in this post) by "War Monitor" seems to be more like "WarMonger". From reading the replies to that tweet and War Monitor's responses, I'm not entirely sure the misrepresentation wasn't deliberate. Fortunately, the military decision-makers aren't exactly going to kick off the next world war based on the sensationalization of public information by some random Twitter user. Or so we hope. In opposite world you never know.
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Links for those book recommendations you gave for those interested...
Keep on trucking, essentially every form of social media with an algorithm out there has figured out an unfortunate hack in human psychology. In general people click more on things that make us upset or scared. Almost every headline on any post anywhere relies on this even when it seems like a positive headline. and it’s genuinely damaging society in my opinion, but I’ll leave that conversation for another day haha. Read books by first hand sources folks!
I can recommend some good books if any one is interested, but 20,000 troops even if sent every week to the front lines is not even close to the buildup you would see if ww3 officially kicked off, or was even months away and is ramping up.
Book recommendations are always welcome. I appreciate your input as I don't have a military background so don't know much about deployments. Just one more thing I can educate myself on. The grey matter is weary, feeling like a soaked sponge already.
“Hell to Pay” is a fantastic read that breaks down the numbers involved in operation downfall, essentially the numbers used to justify nuking Japan. World wars fascinate me because of just that, the scale at which they occur. “Stalingrad- the fateful siege” is another good one that details troop movements and battles just for Stalingrad. I certainly don’t mean to discourage looking into this sort of thing, quite the contrary, but if ww3 kicked off hot right now, millions of bodies and millions of tons of materiel would be moving towards Russia/Ukraine.
Thanks for the suggestions. While I don't know very much about military-deployments, I do read quite a lot of news, even wading into the cesspool of FNM. I suppose that's helped me in discernment about the difference in what's actually being stated vs what's perhaps being just implied.
That tweet (referenced in this post) by "War Monitor" seems to be more like "WarMonger". From reading the replies to that tweet and War Monitor's responses, I'm not entirely sure the misrepresentation wasn't deliberate. Fortunately, the military decision-makers aren't exactly going to kick off the next world war based on the sensationalization of public information by some random Twitter user. Or so we hope. In opposite world you never know.
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Links for those book recommendations you gave for those interested...
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https://www.usni.org/press/books/hell-pay-1
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stalingrad-the-fateful-siege-1942-1943-antony-beevor/1100623266
Keep on trucking, essentially every form of social media with an algorithm out there has figured out an unfortunate hack in human psychology. In general people click more on things that make us upset or scared. Almost every headline on any post anywhere relies on this even when it seems like a positive headline. and it’s genuinely damaging society in my opinion, but I’ll leave that conversation for another day haha. Read books by first hand sources folks!