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It was my misunderstanding. It is much clearer to me now the manner you approach this thread, which I have learned much from reading (earlier I just skimmed through and missed a bunch) and am in your debt again on this topic. I will hopefully have to revisit the thread again (hit all the likes...

U-32 was the first non-nuclear submarine to stay submerged for two weeks. @ANMDT et al.

Its platitude in the end. Cold war era jargon is useful for it (while you maintain/need economic relations), but really in the end it will be seen by how/what Indonesia acquires in its hard power domain this decade and what cooperation it does officially and also unofficially....as to which...

As a whole and in general, Canada is very used to piggybacking off USA for major geopolitical threat like China now (and USSR during coldwar). This is why this cost exercise is even being done with an eye to reduce the total cost by half from 60 billion to 30 billion...and why even type 31 is...

Yeah they were aiming initially for 2022 start date for construction (given that would mean less cost for the shipbuilder and program in the end as it would not have to layoff people when deWolf contract is completed in 2022 there) but I have a nagging suspicion it will slip into 2023 given this...

If type 26 is indeed proceeded with as the basis after this cost review...we will have it then....maybe next year sometime. For time being we can assume very close to type 26 overall given lockheed martin design negotiation went quite quickly. Right now the final design (phase 3) is still...

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/budget-watchdogs-reports-on-major-naval-projects-now-delayed Two reports by the parliamentary budget officer looking into the costs of major Canadian naval equipment projects have been delayed. The Commons Standing Committee on Government...

Yeah I might move some of them later to the IND - PAK debate thread...given straying of topic ...., I was bringing up a point on narratives entrenched (so it just depends on your narrative in the end) and fact India has recognised "rebel" govts in conflict with their larger govts before. This...

OK lets see heh. It was fun debating you as always...I have to take off now. I feel joe needs to add some stuff to the convo as he sees fit too in the interim.

You are not coming at this from an angle that would have been conducive from say original initiation of Pakistan. Where there is a will there is a way...given the infinite potential and possibility of mankind. Thing is Pakistan's powerful had already cast their lot on what they saw for their...

Bangladesh could convene one as required....on their terms and diplomatic backing given by India and USSR. Get some NAM countries on board too. Well that was the best time to go for it (again panzerkiel is good to approach on his views on it). This is all mostly a futile conversation now...

Well I feel it would have been better than the alternative. At least give the guy a chance. If it fails, devolve more powers into each wing over time. There was so much that could have been done peacefully and logically.

Like I said, I don't gloat about it. What you got by turning the Bangladeshis against you is on your cabal. Yahya, Bhutto and the rest. It would have just been better for all involved if Pakistan power-wielders (by design or chance) had a different attitude to its citizens...and stayed united...

I would ask you to take up the matter with Panzerkiel. He has given quite a different appraisal of the situation if India decided to push after defeating 1 army given concept of getting an army split into 2 to defeat 1 at a time. He spoke to me and Joe on it couple of times even, what he would...

Yah hence I mean make the whip more procedural in (democratic) recourses available if its broken past well defined threshold. There is lot of options here for parliamentary democracies, compared to US system actually. I do not think a "fire/replace/muzzle at will" will cut it (well)....because...

This video by Shekhar Gupta take on the Thailand power dynamics (i.e protests that have come up because of this below average general in power and clearly below average King now).....stays mostly on the surface (i'd estimate maybe a 25% depth penetration, given he missed out on the clergy side...

Pity the audio from Admiral end was not too good, there was a lot of good points raised in this discussion: