Ottoman military history is a little more complicated than that.
Janissarries were a glorified palace guard corps at the start. And remember the very first ones were literal convert prisoners of war. Over the course of this beginning stage they gradually built their esprit d'corps, traditions...
It doesn't take concentration camps and famine for a regime to be considered a dictatorship by the way. For a dictatorship you need:
No legitimate political competition (can't elect your way out of it).
Bossman has unilateral authority to rule over all 3 branches of government.
If North Korea...
Anti ballistic missiles need rocket engines and they need to be produced in bulk, like at least 5-6k.
Other kinds of air defence missiles also need it but there is a logical cap where producing more would be illogical. Conventional air threats would be fewer in number than ballistic missiles...
Iranian accounts are talking about a possible Kuwait operation. Americans are poised to go for Kharg or Bender Abbas.
This war affirmed the age old reality: Victory is at the tip of infatryman's bayonet. Everything else is just a complication.
Kubilay Yıldırım says production facilities and personnel that would be directed towards F-35 are now doing other stuff, civilian or indigenous military projects. Those are finite resources so this means some of it must be redirected.
If KAAN gets sidelined even %1 I'm going to be royally pissed.
These conversations are getting really stale... Just saying
We are now in a one-man system. Regular politics will not change this, because all the political channels are already tied into knots. AKP is president's personal fief. MHP is basically a MIT front organization. CHP is also controlled...
I think the latest improvement of US-Turkish relationship is due to Americans making a decision to "bribe" the Turkish state into non-agression towards Israel. I don't know if it will work as intended but it seems plausible.
I also think the Hormuz situation will lead to US boots on Iran. The...
I would advise caution when listening to Colonel MacGregor. He is so pro-Russian 2 years ago I thought he was an actual Russian asset. Nowadays I think he just looks at it from a different perspective. But it is always good to take anything he says with a pinch of salt. The guy said Turkish...
The doomsayers always end the scenarios with us being hit hard. Then we are defeated and game concludes. But geopolitics never end if you are not genocided. Let's continue the brainstorm; Turkish republic is hit hard with 12 days war style air campaign. Economy collapses. Chaos in the streets...