Recent content by SethB

The Army didn't field ballistic missiles when you claim to have seen one, but they are working hard now to field a range of surface to surface missiles from the subsonic to the hypersonic, because missiles are the future of air power.

It doesn't work like that. In a direct fire engagement the tanks would slaughter the artillery, but getting to that point means crossing other tanks as well as infantry with their ATGMs. Artillery can kill tanks with DPICM ammunition of even a large amount of HE that will shred their tracks...

The Navy is doing some soul searching right now and there are a lot of signs that they are going to trim back their carrier and large combatant fleet in favor of smaller ships that are harder to find... and to put their eggs in more baskets in case they do get hit by a bunch of missiles. I...

Underneath nets designed to scatter radar and conceal IR? Sure, you'll get some... but enough? While also fighting air launched naval strike missiles, surface combatants and submarines? The battlefield is getting much more dangerous than it was even 20 years ago.

Striking first, against a dispersed, land based force that is camoflauged against visual and radar sensors and emits no electromagnetic radiation because it is running all comms through fiber optic cables? You can try it. It's going to be really difficult.

You served. So what? I served... So what? Infantry has a lot of defenses, they can be sneaky bastards, or they can dig in. More importantly, they have artillery assets behind them that are locked in an artillery duel with the enemy. Whoever attrits the enemy artillery faster can tear up the...

I served in the Army for 10 years, half of that as an AD artillery officer. I am intimately familiar with rocket artillery. 1) It doesn't require military service to understand how these things work. The vast majority of the men and women that I served with don't understand how their equipment...

I'm not talking about ROE here. I'm talking about what is technologically possible. Tanks are not for disrupting the rear. Tanks are for absolutely crushing your enemy and breaking through his line. Not so much so you can "disrupt" anything as destroy it.

HIMARS cannot do the job of tanks. It can break up a massed formation using DPICM, PFF or SFW ammunition (we only own one of those three rounds; the Germans are working on SFWs for MLRS) but it can't engage in more direct support of the infantry when engaged by armor. Why do tanks mass in...

So... basically... "stop liking what I don't like?"

He's talking about something else. In practice a land tax would probably be around 4%.

You're the guy on the dildo pony.

Same issue. I'm talking about removing taxes on inventory, FF&E, buildings, etc. No audits, no compliance, nothing. In exchange you pay a higher tax on land. That's it. The price of land would probably fall, but the real reward would be diverting all that money that gets shipped to places like...

You've got a big mouth. People like you don't fare very well in anarchy.

The original idea behind the land tax was that it would replace all other taxes (like sales taxes, income taxes, etc). The property tax would go away, so you'd no longer be taxed on buildings.