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Sir, if you will recall, the US COIN operations in Vietnam failed horribly. Furthermore, they resulted massive civilian casualties. Search and Destroy amount to: "Lets wander around until someone attacks us, and then try and trap and pound them in an open battle" It kills them, but does nothing...

Here is a good article that has a quantitative evaluation of how various religious people vote in the US. Pew Research Center: Religion and the Presidential Vote Here is an important bit So, how important is religion? It can tip the scale, but does not seem to be the deciding factor. Another...

Qualifier: When I said 'No reasonable person' I should have said 'No reasonable politician' . As to if evangelicals are not the majority of voters, I cannot say precisely, but if voters closely resemble the population as a whole, then no, they do not. They comprise approx. 26% of the...

US politics is finicky and situation based, perhaps they would, perhaps they would not. I cannot predict the future, and never claimed the ability. It was merely a statement of fact. A Lockheed Martin spokesman's opinion is not the opinion of the future US congress or administration. The PAF can...

What is a "Peace Committee"?

Please add more data or links to substantiate that claim.

Russia Valuing INS Vikramaditya Aircraft Carrier Deal at USD 2.7 Billion Russia will drive a hard bargain in renegotiating the price of an aircraft carrier the Indian Navy has purchased and for which Moscow is seeking $1.2 billion over and above the $1.5 billion that had been agreed on, the...

Greenway makes alot of points with some truth to them. However, note that no reasonable person would admit today in the US publicly to a "Divine Right" of Israeli expansion. Some "tele-evangelists" talk about these things, but their audiences don't vote, and whenever one of them tries to get an...

It would seem my data is horribly out of date, apologies all around. Still though,just because Lockheed talks about selling the f-35 to the IAF, does not mean that congress or the administration support the notion. I should do a little research before spouting off. Still, all signs point to...

There is some doubt as to if congress will support the sale of the f-18 super-hornets to India. As the US has no interest in upsetting the balance of power in the region, you can rest assured that the f-35 is not up for sale to the IAF unless it is also up for sale to the PAF, who can't afford...

Using the CIA as the standard for internal security is probably a bad idea. Using US defense is an even worse idea. The US is a fairly liberal democracy, and those agencies are comprised mostly of civilians, who are not subject to the strict rules of conduct that members of military intelligence...

xishan786: Read my statements carefully in context, I was just talking about the PAF and PN, not about an invasion.

If you are really interested in how it is done, here is a link. How To Calculate Distances, Azimuths and Elevation Angles Of Peaks

There is a fairly simple arctangent function that can be used to calculate the distance between two points given their coordinates. There is a couple of hundred meters of distortion every 50 or so miles at the latitudes of Pakistan, so unless you are trying to fire precision munitions, it does...

Just to clarify. The US is not worried about Pakistan "Losing Track" of its nuclear weapons. Rather, it is concerned that thousands of armed men who are pretty much openly allowed to conduct millitia operations within the borders of Pakistan and have a seizable minority support in many regions(I...

If the president gave the order, within a week from today 8 b-2 bombers, a dozen f-22's, and 200-300 cruise missiles could be on their way to just about any target in the world. No nation in the world has any credible defense against those weapons, the US included. Combined those weapons have...

IceCold and Agnostic, I agree on all counts except perhaps IceColds opinion on if Pakistan will have any nuclear assets left, and if its air-force can make it more than a week or two. Anyway, never going to happen, so this is all really just "Shootin' the bull" to use a George H. W. Bush euphemism.

See this article for the effectiveness of 50-60's era theater ballistic missiles in a modern anti-air environment. Let alone an anti-ABM environment. DOD: Information Paper- Iraq's Scud Ballistic Missiles

I doubt the US has the money or interest to launch another open conflict. However, if the US uses Israel to do its dirty work by proxy and secretly uses stealth bombers in support to make sure the job gets done, it can significantly set back the Iranian nuclear program. As for the 600...

Generally this type of data is published so taxpayers can see what their money goes to. If the electorate thinks their money is being wasted, then they can elect someone else.