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2011-09-20 Science & Technology

India to sell BrahMos missile to Vietnam

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-20 10:41|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Someone noted elsewhere that there are weird historical parallels happening in Asia right now that are somewhat mirror images of what happened in Europe prior to World War I.

That is, the "Triple Alliance" of Germany, AustriaHungary, and Italy, is today mirrored by China, Pakistan and North Korea.

The "Triple Entente" of Britain, France and Russia, is today mirrored by India, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam and everyone else in the area.

And instead of the build-up of battleships (dreadnoughts), today there is a great build up of submarines.

The biggest difference seems to be that no one has of yet decided to create a vast horde army.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-20 10:51|| 2011-09-20 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 This is Asia - its kind of hard *not* to have a vast horde army isn't it?

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-09-20 12:08|| 2011-09-20 12:08|| Front Page Top

#3 This is what happens when you give your Horde the ability to unionize.

Posted by Charles 2011-09-20 13:14|| 2011-09-20 13:14|| Front Page Top

#4 American firepower in a couple of the wars that we fought in Asia taught everyone the valuable lesson that the human wave is NOT for modern combat. The ChiComs stopped using them by the end of the Korean War; the Viet Cong stopped using them before the Tet Offensive; and the ChiComs relearned the lesson and stopped using them again after the invasion of North Vietnam in 1979 {the North Vietnamese 'rehabilitated' a bunch of South Vietnamese officers to lead their troops against the Chinese}. With modern cluster munitions, horde armies are simply landlocked chum waiting to happen.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-09-20 18:47|| 2011-09-20 18:47|| Front Page Top

#5 That same idea applies in WWI with good old field artillery, but that didn't stop the use of mass armies. Nor did chemical weapons (also in the Iran-Iraq war).

Today, in a conflict between two such armies, the most expendable weapon is infantry. Between India and China, some 30-50 million draftees. Literally overwhelming any weapons system short of nuclear.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-20 19:19|| 2011-09-20 19:19|| Front Page Top

#6 30-50 million draftees...Hmmmm...Isn't that the number of excess males in each country as a result of "birth control"?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-09-20 19:40|| 2011-09-20 19:40|| Front Page Top

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