{"id":195904,"date":"2019-10-06T09:31:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T09:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195904"},"modified":"2019-10-10T06:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T06:20:23","slug":"new-weapons-and-the-new-tactics-which-they-make-possible-three-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195904","title":{"rendered":"New Weapons and the New Tactics Which They Make Possible: Three Examples"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saker \u2013 The Unz Review Oct 2, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Heavy Strike UAV S-70 Hunter. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

There are probably hundreds of books out there about the so-called \u201cRevolution in Military Affairs\u201d, some of them pretty good, most of them very bad, and a few very good ones (especially this one<\/span><\/a>). For a rather dull and mainstream discussion, you can check the Wikipedia article on the RMA<\/span><\/a>. Today I don\u2019t really want to talk this or similar buzzwords (like \u201chybrid warfare\u201d for example). Frankly, in my experience, these buzzwords serve two purposes:<\/h5>\n
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    to sell (books, articles, interviews, etc.)<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
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    to hide a person\u2019s lack of understanding of tactics, operational art and strategy.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    This being said, there are<\/em><\/strong> new things happening in the realm of warfare, new technologies are being developed, tested and deployed, some extremely successfully.<\/h5>\n
    In his now famous speech, Putin revealed some of these new weapons systems, although he did not say much about how they would be engaged (which is quite logical, since he was making a political speech, not a military-technical report). For those would be interested in this topic, you can check here<\/a><\/span>, here<\/span><\/a>, here<\/span><\/a>, here<\/a><\/span>, here<\/span><\/a> and here<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n
    The recent Houthi drone and missile strike on the Saudi oil installations has shown to the world something which the Russians have known for several years: that even rather primitive drones can be a real threat. Sophisticated drones are a major threat to every military out there, though Russia has developed truly effective (including cost-effective, which is absolutely crucial, more about that later) anti-drone capabilities.<\/h5>\n

    First, lets look at the very low-cost end of the spectrum: drones<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There has been a \u201cRevolution in Military Affairs\u201d. The Saker takes an extensive look at new weapons and tactics and what they mean for modern warfare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195904"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195909,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195904\/revisions\/195909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}