Amphibious Challenges

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24-6-14 [PLA's naval options for amphibious invasion of Taiwan] - Binkov > .

24-8-2 [Tensions & Policy Considerations: USA & West vs X~T] - Spaniel > .

24-1-22 Taiwan Strait: Ocean’s Most Contested Place - U.S. Naval Institute > .

23-9-21 A Xinese blockade against Taiwan 'won't work' | Tim Cross > .

23-8-17 Xina will watch AFU's marines as Ruscia attempts A2/AD | Tele > .

23-8-15 A2/AD & Taiwan’s Asymmetric Strategy to Repel Xinese | WSJ > .

23-7-15 Porcupine: Taiwan’s Strategic Approach to Survival [vs X] - Warographics > .

23-6-11 [Mil-Civ Crosr] X's RoFo [Amphibious Assault] Ferries - K > . skip > .

23-2-5 Can US Prevent Xina From Taking Taiwan? US Wargames - EuNaIn > .

22-10-31 How could war between Xina & Taiwan play out? | Four Corners > .

22-9-21 How China’s Military Drills Could Choke Off Taiwan’s Internet | WSJ > .

22-8-15 Taiwan could repel invasion; wargamed cost high to Taiwan and US > .

22-6-29 Risks of Amphibious Invasions - Modern D-Day invasion - Binkov > .

22-4-6 [Hypothetical impacts of Xinese attack on Taiwan - Binkov > .

21-12-16 Taiwan: a full Chinese invasion would be difficult for PLA - Focus > .

2021 How Chinese Marines Could Invade Taiwan - Battle Order > .

2021 Why China Wants to Invade Taiwan - Cabal > .

2021 Niall Ferguson on China's likeliest aggression against Taiwan - Hoover > .

2021 The China Dream: Tensions With Taiwan - SBS > .

2021 Could Taiwan Stop a Chinese Invasion - CoCa > .

2020 Can China Take Taiwan - CoCa > .

Amphibious Challenges - Naval Gazing >> .

> PLAN >>

24-7-6 [Naval Strategy: Mahan, Corbett | PLAN Aggression] - Pacific > . 

24-5-29 Hainan Island & Xina's Massive Naval Expansion | WSJ > .

Civil Wars

Preconditions for civil war:

1:19 Intense polarization

1:53 Fear, mistrust, hatred

2:23 Falling standard of living 

2:31 Violence

6:13 Columbia's "La Violencia" civil war 

Decisive Victories/Defeats

Is there a Crucial Battle that Won The War? | Battles Lost and Won > .  

Retracing The Conflicts of WW2 | Battles Won And Lost > .
Deciding The War | Battles Won and Lost > .
Crucial Battles of WW2 Italy | Battles Won and Lost > .
Tide Turns For The Allies | Battles Won and Lost > .

Great Military Blunders - Time >> . 

Great Military Blunders - S1 - Time >> .

>> Timeline >> .
> Timeline > .

Homo ferocis

.Why Nations Go To War | Intellections - PolicyEd > .

22-10-21 The Rules Of War Must Not Be Broken (war crimes) - OBF > . skip > .

21-11-2 Describing Military Doctrine - Anders Puck Nielsen > .

What Can We Learn from the History of War? Margaret Macmillan - IQ2 > .

Why We Should Study War, with Victor Davis Hanson | PolicyEd > .

What is the Philosophy of War? - Carneades > .

Why do humans go to war? - Lindybeige > .

Why Do Nations Go to War? | The Nightmare of Modern War - Wondrium > .

Is War Over? — A Paradox Explained - Kurzgesacht > .

Rules of Conflict - Overt, Covert - Bonum V. Mālum >> .
War & Society - Mil Pow >> .

Historian Explains What Civilization Owes to War: How Conflict Shaped Us, by Margaret MacMillan

"War has always been cruel and squalid, but it’s the modern world that has made it so fantastically bloody. The Industrial Revolution gave states the ability to manufacture ever more lethal weapons on ever greater scales, and nationalism turned populations into armies, blurring the distinction between soldiers and civilians. “Nationalism provided the motivation in the powder keg and the Industrial Revolution the means,” MacMillan writes.

What is the Philosophy of War? - Carneades > .

But war is not merely a negative force; it’s an engine of change and creativity. It helped create the modern bureaucracy, and it made rulers more democratic because they needed healthy, educated people to fight. War helped liberate women, not just on the home front but even on the battlefield, where increasingly they fought; and war forced artists — like the Cubists and the Vorticists — to look at the world in new ways."

Abnormality Genes -- Addiction, Aggression, Anxiety →

Cliodynamic Analysis of History: End Times (2023) ..

Human Propensity for Belligerence ..

Lessons from War

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What Can We Learn from the History of War? Margaret Macmillan - IQ2 > .

23-9-10 Industrial Competition & Consolidation, Military Procurement - Perun > .

23-8-13 Anders & Perun - Theories of Victory & Ruscian Political [In] Stability > .

23-8-13 Game Theory Of Military Spending | EcEx > .

23-7-9 How Wars End - Negotiations, Coercion, War Termination Theory - Perun > .

23-1-22 Politics Can Destroy Armies: Factionalism & R-U War - Perun > .

22-10-21 The Rules Of War Must Not Be Broken (war crimes) - OBF > . skip > .

21-11-2 Describing Military Doctrine - Anders Puck Nielsen > .

What is the Philosophy of War? - Carneades > .

Why We Should Study War, with Victor Davis Hanson | PolicyEd > .

Why Nations Go To War | Intellections - PolicyEd > .

Why do humans go to war? - Lindybeige > .

Why Do Nations Go to War? | The Nightmare of Modern War - Wondrium > .

Is War Over? — A Paradox Explained - Kurzgesacht > .

Rules of Conflict - Overt, Covert - Bonum V. Mālum >> .
War & Society - Mil Pow >> .

Cliodynamic Analysis of History: End Times (2023) ..

LOAC - Law of Armed Conflict ..

War - Philosophy of War ⇻

War is politics by other means. In other words, when political leaders cannot get what they want through political means, they judge the cost of achieving their goal through military force. Preventing armed conflict requires raising the cost of using force. Until the cost of any armed conflict is prohibitively high, conflicts will continue. 

For more information, visit the PolicyEd.org : https://www.policyed.org/intellection.... 

“Bellum Interruptum” by Victor Davis Hanson, available here: http://bit.ly/2urtopq . 

“War: The Gambling Man’s Game” by Kori Schake: http://www.hoover.org/research/war-ga... . 

“Words matter, even a few” by Victor Davis Hanson: https://victorhanson.com/wordpress/wo... .

Podcast with Kori Schake on American dominance of the international order: http://www.hoover.org/research/kori-s... .

Read “Why Study War?” by Victor Davis Hanson via City Journal: https://www.city-journal.org/html/why.... . 

Watch “War, Peace, and Politics with Victor Davis Hanson,” on GoodFellows.  https://www.hoover.org/research/war-p.... . 

Watch “Why Nations Go to War,” PolicyEd. https://www.policyed.org/intellection.... . 

Watch “How Cyber Attacks Threaten Our Security,” on PolicyEd: https://www.policyed.org/intellection.... . 

Watch “War Crimes in Ukraine: The Pursuit of International Justice,” on Battlegrounds, with H. R. McMaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOY7m.... .