David Goldman has post about weapons on
The American Conservative. It's all about the relative military strength of America, Russia and China, and how our bloated bureaucracy is compensating for their incompetence by poking the bear. You might want to read
the whole thing. I thought this bit was instructive:
We are in a twilight world of strategic arms competition. A reference point for comparison might be the advent of the torpedo bomber at the outset of World War II, which proved the obsolescence of the battleship—until then the epitome of military power—with the attack at Pearl Harbor, with the destruction of the Italian fleet at Taranto, with the loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse near Singapore, and with the sinking of the Bismarck in the North Atlantic. None of the world’s navies acknowledged that the battleship was obsolete until 1940.
The quote mentions four significant events. I am sure I have heard of all of these before, but I don't think I have heard them all grouped together like this.
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Here's the heavy metal version of Bismark,
performed by Sabatom : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7WdjnCFM4Y
"According to Russian claims. A Russian sub lurking a hundred miles off the American coast could nuke Washington in a flat minute".
"Russia claimed to have tested the S-550 upgrade, which allegedly can destroy ICBMs as well as satellites".
"Both the Chinese HGVs and conventional surface-to-ship ballistic missiles presumably can penetrate or swamp the defense of American aircraft carriers."
Goldman bases his argument on the premise that Russia and China don't lie. Wonder if he stayed up all night waiting for Santa?
"We will not be able to defend against AI-enabled threats without ubiquitous AI capabilities and new warfighting paradigms.”
What is AI, Artificial Intelligence training a machine to do what people do but without coffee breaks and health insurance.. The objective of most weapons is to get the go-boom to the place you want it to go-boom. You can try different trajectories and different speeds and different groupings of multiple go-booms, but that's it. Being able to defeat that threat depends on the strength of your anti-go-boom weapons, not AI
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