RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 22, 2019 at 8:20 am
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2019 at 8:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
AOW and nuclear holocaust are the pasts boogeymen. The next war (and future wars) are far more likely to take the form of limited and covert proxy engagement in urban environments combined with overt financial or technical subversion of infrastructure and critical facilities. It would be impossible to unwind the clock on this, as the past few decades have shown that you can inflict far greater and more lasting damage with less risk to yourself by employing non-traditional combatants to bleed the other guys conventional forces to breaking point.
Meanwhile, nukes are most useful when not used. They lose their value as a deterrent the moment you loose them and everyone else starts firing back. I can't remember who said it, but the surest way to lose the next war is to plan and fight it like the last one. That's what fucked us in the middle east from the word go, lol.
All that said..I really loved Alas, Babylon as a kid. There was no nuclear war, the conflict after launch was mainly fighting off bands of raiders and keeping your food and water and salt and such secure, lol. Whoever happened to remain standing through sheer luck was the victor by default.
Meanwhile, nukes are most useful when not used. They lose their value as a deterrent the moment you loose them and everyone else starts firing back. I can't remember who said it, but the surest way to lose the next war is to plan and fight it like the last one. That's what fucked us in the middle east from the word go, lol.
All that said..I really loved Alas, Babylon as a kid. There was no nuclear war, the conflict after launch was mainly fighting off bands of raiders and keeping your food and water and salt and such secure, lol. Whoever happened to remain standing through sheer luck was the victor by default.
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