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re: Are We In A New Era Of The Cold War?
Posted on 4/20/17 at 8:19 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Posted on 4/20/17 at 8:19 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Those desks back then were made to last
not like todays desks with this pasty soft millennials
not like todays desks with this pasty soft millennials
Posted on 4/20/17 at 8:24 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Might as well be, tensions rising with Russia along with the bullshite going on in Syria and Ukriane.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 8:26 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Every waking second we are at war with someone, mainly China and Russia. War is just different than before. Every major player has the nuclear weapon threat, but nobody wants to use one because the other would retaliate.
Cyber warfare
Economic Warfare ( think currency manipulation, oil prices, and sanctions)
Socio-political warfare ( notice the rise in rebel groups? CIA does that)
These have replaced storming beaches and rolling tanks across the desert. It's easier and cheaper to do and in many cases takes a greater toll. We are at war 24/7
Cyber warfare
Economic Warfare ( think currency manipulation, oil prices, and sanctions)
Socio-political warfare ( notice the rise in rebel groups? CIA does that)
These have replaced storming beaches and rolling tanks across the desert. It's easier and cheaper to do and in many cases takes a greater toll. We are at war 24/7
Posted on 4/20/17 at 8:31 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Were you alive for the Cold War? This is nowhere near that level.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 8:40 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
I remember reading in a history of the Civil War that two large forces of the South were within 5 miles of each other when a battle started between one of those forces and the Union.
The force not involved in the battle never joined. It didn't even know a battle had started. Couldn't hear what was going on.
We think 5 miles or so isn't a long way because we drive that distance so quickly. But, walk a straight distance of 5 miles and you'll realize that that's not really "close by". Drive 5 miles away from Tiger Stadium when it's full and a rivalry game is being played. You don't have to be 5 miles away before you can't even hear that a game is being played.
The force not involved in the battle never joined. It didn't even know a battle had started. Couldn't hear what was going on.
We think 5 miles or so isn't a long way because we drive that distance so quickly. But, walk a straight distance of 5 miles and you'll realize that that's not really "close by". Drive 5 miles away from Tiger Stadium when it's full and a rivalry game is being played. You don't have to be 5 miles away before you can't even hear that a game is being played.
This post was edited on 4/20/17 at 8:41 pm
Posted on 4/20/17 at 8:45 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
quote:
Are We In A New Era Of The Cold War?
During a period of Global Warming...How crazy is THAT?!?!
Posted on 4/20/17 at 8:49 pm to Eternally Undefeated
Tom Clancy's "Sum of All Fears" is a pretty good flick that while fictional, it showied what kind of tensions were typical during the Cold War. Even War Games captured the typical mood in some ways.
I was in the USAF in England in the mid 80's. We had a life expentency of about 13 minutes if the flag ever dropped for WW3.
But we were going to make them pay hell in those 13 mins I'm here to tell you. ;)
There were several close calls to it "going down" back then that few know about.
A NATO excercise in 83' and a missing russian boomer that mysteriously sunk (K-129) not far from Hawaii in 68' were two instances that had us closer to nuclear holocaust than that stuff in Cuba ever did.
The russian sub may have sunk when part of the crew that didn't mutiny shut the missile hatches as the rest of the crew tried to launch nukes on Pearl Harbor to start WW3.
And , supposedly, the movie Crimson Tide was based off of rumours of an incident during that time period as well.
So Syria and NK are a sunny walk in the park compared with that chit.
I was in the USAF in England in the mid 80's. We had a life expentency of about 13 minutes if the flag ever dropped for WW3.
But we were going to make them pay hell in those 13 mins I'm here to tell you. ;)
There were several close calls to it "going down" back then that few know about.
A NATO excercise in 83' and a missing russian boomer that mysteriously sunk (K-129) not far from Hawaii in 68' were two instances that had us closer to nuclear holocaust than that stuff in Cuba ever did.
The russian sub may have sunk when part of the crew that didn't mutiny shut the missile hatches as the rest of the crew tried to launch nukes on Pearl Harbor to start WW3.
And , supposedly, the movie Crimson Tide was based off of rumours of an incident during that time period as well.
So Syria and NK are a sunny walk in the park compared with that chit.
This post was edited on 4/20/17 at 9:08 pm
Posted on 4/20/17 at 9:14 pm to AUTimbo
Book about the Russian sub incident is called "Red Star Rogue".
Very compelling evidence that some good commies on board prevented WW3 from kicking off
Very compelling evidence that some good commies on board prevented WW3 from kicking off
Posted on 4/20/17 at 9:48 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Like I have already stated in this very thread, I am not trying to compare the Cold War from the 40's-80's to whatever the frick it is going on now. What I'm asking is does this feel like a different era of it? Never once tried to compare it to the one everybody knows about.
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