Is surprise the most powerful weapon of all? Or is it some bullshit like friendship?
Is surprise the most powerful weapon of all? Or is it some bullshit like friendship?
Is surprise the most powerful weapon of all? Or is it some bullshit like friendship?
>bullshit like friendship
>ignores the last 500 years of major wars being predominantly between coalitions, a type of group held together by bonds like friendship
Dumb
>alliances are held together by friendship
Quite the opposite mon frere. They're held together by hate and fear.
Anglosphere nations are held together by friendship and shared cultural heritage and social/economic superiority. Ganglosphere on Mars
>digital panopticon surveillance states under the control of banks and the secret societies behind them
>friendship 🙂
>secret societies
sounds like clubs for super special friends
In a good alliance, the "fear" is of outsiders, not of what the other members would do if you tried to leave.
>t. thirdoid
More like shared interests and diplomacy. Lots and lots of diplomacy.
What is diplomacy but finding shared ground and interests to foster peaceful cooperation with?
Shared interests and lots of communication is exactly how friendships form.
This.
The misunderstanding about alliances is the same as the misunderstanding about pets. People will say shit like "your dog doesn't love you it just knows that you provide it food and water" - as if that's nothing. As if literally giving something the life-sustaining food and water that it needs isn't the most essential and fundamental care that you can provide.
In the same way, people point to the "shared interests" among allies and say that's the only reason that they exist and there is no REAL affection, just a show of friendliness to enable mutually beneficial cooperation. But that's not how it works - the shared interests ARE the friendship. It's not that they go together, it's that they are the same. Love doesn't exist alongside the food and water, the love IS the act of providing and receiving food and water. Trying to separate sentiment from reality only results in misunderstanding reality.
>bullshit like friendship
Gtfo friendship is one of the most important /k/aracteristics
Surprise seems like it can be highly effective as a short-term tactic but it's not a long-term strategy. You can't expect to keep surprising your enemy over and over again, because eventually they'll figure you out and adapt, or a coalition will form against you.
It's a thing in politics as well as war. You can make these gains or make an advance, but a coalition to oppose you will generate itself as a reciprocal force even if it would've seemed confusing or contradictory before that. The alliance between the Western allies and the Soviet Union is a case in point.
>Is surprise the most powerful weapon of all?
Absolutely
>Bin Laden Determined To Strike Inside The US.
It really didn't play out that well.
Didn't it? America is a shadow of what it was in 2001, and the war on terror and global financial crisis loom large as the cause.
America lost the war on terror.
>America is a shadow of what it was in 2001
The whole world is a shadow of what it was in 2001.
Fuck off China and plenty of other places have been on a roll.
I'm not sure the invasions went as bad as they hoped, those air defenses in Iraq didn't do much
Yeah he had a number of speeches and essays where he said effectively that the attack would cause America to overreact, spend more than it could afford, and eventually economically collapse.
Coincidentally I just noticed that the SPR is empty and the national debt is increasing by 4 trillion a year. Huh.
It turned the world from being an a stable, growing world, run by a fair American hegemony into a multi-polar mess where the US is a divided country and the world is constantly at crisis.
America lost, but so did the world.
>pearl harbor
>surprised
>(You)
>retarded
The issue with surprise attacks is that it's hard to do them over and over again to the same enemy
At some point morale, manpower, production, and logistics take over as the pillars of victory. If you have all four of those it's basically impossible to lose.
You can also quickly and cheerfully destroy tons of people and hardware
Surprise Friendship.
My Great Military Alliance: Friendship is Logistic
*Logistics
Surprise beats logistics, but only once.
Love is the most powerful weapon. /k/ is now a board about love. Post couples.
I'm going to fucking strangle you
>Post couples.
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Pearl harbour only happened cause Japan needed oil and the US was throwing a temper tantrum over Japan’s occupation of China.
The higher up Japanese Officials concluded a surprise attack on the US would weaken/devastate their naval fleet and that they might be able to push with their limited amount of men.
You know how well that plan went, and the US indiscriminately napalm bombed Japan.
The most powerful weapon is dick
Mine specifically
If you can follow it up with enough force to capitalize on the damage caused initially before your enemy can rally and counterattack, it's infinitely powerful.
If not, it just pisses your enemy off enough to beat you until you can't do it again.
We destroy our enemies when we make them our friends.
Willpower. Willpower is quite possibly the strongest weapon one can wield in combat. It's something you sharpen, hone to be stronger so you can see your ideals through to the end. Most people will underestimate it's power in this age but it was a true force to be reckoned with in the ages before ranged weaponry became the norm. Even now, You can accomplish just about anything if you have the willpower to do whatever is needed to achieve your goal.