Resist.

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From "The Reader's Companion to Military History" and the article by M.R.D. Foot the topic of which is RESISTANCE of a populace to a foreign occupying military power or a legally established government corrupt and despotic!

The archetype of a successful wartime resistance the French Resistance or the Soviet Partisan movement during the Second World War.

"It [a resistance] may seek to achieve its objectives through either the use of nonviolent resistance . . . or the use of force . . . In many cases . . . a resistance movement may employ both violent and non-violent methods"

Resistance generally conceded as most effective when combined with conventional military operations.

According to Foot:

"Resisters can usefully carry out four main tasks"

Four main tasks: [not strictly limited to but primarily so]

1. Provide intelligence.

2. Sabotage.

3. Escape networks.

4. Maintain morale and hope.

More to follow!

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SE F-35.

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"And the beat goes on."

SE = Social Engineering. "Honeypot - - 1 : one that is attractive or desirable"

"Honey Pot: RAF Staffer Leaks F-35 Secrets on Tinder - Report"

"A perpetrator hacked a female RAF staffer's dating app profile, using her online presence to sweet-talk a male Royal Air Force employee and stealing secret information about the US fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter just weeks after the first four jets entered service, according to a report by Mail Online."

Malware as found on hacked smart phones and social media Internet web sites and used for espionage purposes. This is a growth business and has been for some time now.

This incident just one many recent incidents. NO real damage done so they tell us. Well, they would tell us that, wouldn't they?

BOYS! YOU HAVE BEEN FOREWARNED AND REPEATEDLY. AND YET YOU FAIL!

See a number of previous blog entries the problem as with hacking of smart phones that military dimension:

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2018/04/honey.html

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2018/03/united.html

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2018/02/ban.html

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2018/01/fitbit.html

The beat indeed "goes on"! Thank you Sonny and Cher!

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Curiosities.

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Herewith curiosities and novelties of Soviet era submarine design.

Thanks in all cases to the H.I. Sutton Internet web site "Covert Shores".

1. "Stalin's Super Sub - Project P-2"

"A monstrously large submarine by any standards, the 5,360 ton P-2 design was to be equipped with both Ballistic Missiles and Cruise Missiles, as well as its own midget submarines."

Fire missiles, cruise and ballistic both, torpedoes fore and aft, launch midget submarines, had deck guns [one dual 57 mm mount and one dual 25 mm mount] and probably could deploy sea mines!

2. "Project 673 submarine  Soviet sailless super-sub"

"Sail - - In naval parlance, the sail (American usage) or fin (European/Commonwealth usage) of a submarine is the tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines"

"The Project 673 submarine was designed as an interceptor boat, to be kept in port and sent out in the event of an intruding NATO submarine. It was therefore designed for speed."

"Many design concepts from the Project 673 were put into practice in the Project 705K ALFA Class which entered service in the 1970s."

DESIGN CONCEPTS INCLUDED IN THE ALFA CLASS SUB TO INCLUDE TITANIUM HULL, AUTOMATION, HIGH-SPEED NUCLEAR REACTOR!

3. "Piranha Special Forces submarine"

"The p.865 'Piranha' midget submarine was a dedicated Spetsnaz special operations craft capable of delivering 6 frogmen to a target over 400 miles from its base."

MANY IMAGES OF PIRANHA I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. ONLY SEVERAL PIRANHA WERE EVER BUILT, TITANIUM HULLED AND USED STRICTLY FOR NAVAL COMMANDO OPERATIONS. RANGE HOWEVER LIMITED UNLESS CARRIED OR TOWED TO TARGET BY ANOTHER VESSEL IF POSSIBLE.

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France 1940.

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From the Internet web site "Small Wars Journal" and the article by David Campbell and Jesse McIntyre III the topic is the Battle of France 1940 those points of interest in the nutshell type of stuff the defeat of the French army.

"A Policy of Defeat"

"Time Magazine commented in August 1939 that French Army General Maurice Gamelin was head, by unanimous acclaim, of the world’s finest military machine."    

Six major reasons given for French defeat include:

* 1) "Deficiencies in morale, caused by widespread defeatism."

* 2) "Faulty French military doctrine and policy"

* 3) "Inadequate training of reserves in peacetime"

* 4) "The detrimental effects of the Maginot Line"

* 5) "Incompetent aged leadership"

 * 6) "Irreconcilable political divisions within France’s Third Republic"

* "A seventh additional reason is security agreements that committed France to countries that lacked reciprocity."

My personal comments:

* Gamelin apparently more incompetent than anything else. NOT however a traitor as has been suggested by some.

* The French COULD HAVE won the Battle of France 1940 but according to Dupuy placed TOO LITTLE faith in the Maginot Line. Four armies deployed vicinity the line in a strictly defensive posture when ONLY ONE would have sufficed!!

* NOT so much the French were bad as the German were good? That blitzkrieg consisting of concentrated  armor and tactical aviation working in concert WITH strong and effective anti-aircraft-artillery [AAA] useful in consolidating and protecting gains!

Devoted readers to the blog can suggest additional reasons? Let me hear from you.

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Arrest!

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If and when this proceeds none of it bodes well:

"Hate Speech Erdoğanist Turkish lawyers seek arrest of US officers at Turkey’s İncirlik Airbase"

"A group of pro-Erdoğan Turkish lawyers has applied to the Adana Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for the arrest of members of the US military at İncirlik Airbase in Adana for their alleged cooperation with the Gülen movement"

AND WHAT EXACTLY WILL OCCUR IF AN WHEN TURKISH POLICE OR MILITARY EITHER MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO ARREST THE AMERICAN OFFICERS OR EVEN ACTUALLY TAKE U.S. PERSONAL INTO CUSTODY?

INCIRLIK ALSO A STORAGE AREA FOR AMERICAN ATOMIC WEAPONRY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NATO MISSION AND CONTINGENCY! THOSE WEAPONS HAVE BEEN MOVED? COMPROMISE TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES AND DIRE CONSEQUENCES AS A RESULT OF ANY TURKISH UNILATERAL ACTON IN THIS REGARD!!

See previous blog entries with further links the topic of which was Incirlik AFB and the atomic arsenal as stored at same:

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2017/03/incirlik-turkey.html

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2017/01/incirlik-afb.html

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/08/atomics-incrilik.html

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Bab.

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Bab as in Bab al-Mandeb! Yet again that narrow water-way a critical choke point an important factor in world geopolitical machinations of the highest order.

From the latest edition of the DEBKAfile news letter type of coverage you will find no where else.

1. "Iran's Saviz 'cargo' ship orchestrated Red Sea attack on two Saudi oil tankers"

28 July.

"The attack on two Saudi supertankers on the Red Sea on Wednesday, July 25, was orchestrated by the Iranian Saviz, a weapons-carrying spy ship . . . It is packed with advanced surveillance gear for tracking shipping on the Red Sea. Before the attack, signals from the Saviz were intercepted informing the Houthis' shore base when the tanker would be passing within missile range."

"Although the damage minimal, the Saudis decided not to take any chances and announced the suspension of oil shipping through the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandeb until conditions were secure. Oil prices shot up by one percent on the world markets."

2. "Netanyahu: If Iran tries to block Bab al-Mandeb, it will face a coalition with Israel in full military array"

1 August.

"Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday, Aug. 1, issued a warning in a speech to graduates of the Navy's Captains' course in Haifa: 'Early this week we saw an Iranian proxy [Houthi] trying to interfere with shipping sailing through the Straits of Bab al-Mandeb. I am convinced that an international coalition resolved to prevent this happening awaits Iran. And this coalition will include the State of Israel with all its full military array.'  He [Benjamin] was talking about a lineup of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Israel, following the Yemeni Houthi missile attack on two Saudi super tankers in the Red Sea."

YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WARNED!

"And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." - - Matthew 24:6.

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GBSD I.

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GBSD = Ground Based Strategic Deterrent.

First from the Russian media outlet RT. Think also cost-effective?

1. "US Air Force destroys ICBM after ‘anomaly’ during test launch"

"A Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] test ended in failure when the projectile was ordered to self-destruct due to an 'anomaly' that developed during the flight, the US Air Force has confirmed."

A NORMAL AND PERIODIC TEST OF MINUTEMAN III ICBM GOES AWRY. MISSILE DESTRUCTS WHEN LAUNCHED AND AIRBORNE. THIS IS UNCOMMON BUT DOES OCCUR FROM TIME TO TIME.

Second thanks to the tip from RT that successor to Minuteman III in the works? GBSD?

2. "New ICBM Cheaper Than Upgraded Minuteman: Boeing On GBSD"

That article from Breaking Defense by Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

"ARLINGTON: A brand-new ICBM may cost the nation more than $85 billion, but keeping the geriatric Minuteman will cost even more. That’s according to Boeing, the aerospace giant that began building the original Minuteman I in 1958 and has maintained the much-modified Minuteman III since 1970."

Minuteman III that part of the Nuclear Triad as it is called. Ground-based nuclear deterrent persuasive. A missile and system quite ancient [original program began in 1966!] now. A replacement is in the works?

EASIER AND CHEAPER TO BUILD AND PLACE INTO THE INVENTORY A NEW ICBM THAN ENDLESSLY MAINTAIN AND UPGRADE MINUTEMAN III? THIS IS THE QUESTION?

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