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DIFFERENT VICTIM COUNTRY, DIFFERENT DESTINATION, DIFFERENT FORTUNE!

Former Afghan finance minister, Khalid Payenda, fled to the US and became a Uber taxi driver. He managed a $6 billion budget.

Former People's Deputy of Ukraine Igor Kotvitsky fled to the EU and became a millionaire there, because he took out $30 million.

He ran the Law Enforcement Committee.

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Bellum_Romanum said:
Can anyone here tell me just what's so great about General Horn dog Petraeus? What did he exactly do that has gained him so much pseudo expertise on conventional war when his supposed non-existent expertise was based off on his vaunted COIN tactics which was essentially BRIBING SUNNI Fighters in AL-Anbar and surrounding areas of Baghdad. The dude was wounded by his own soldier that was conducting training under his command (freak accident) and the former head of the Army who now runs the Institute for Study of War (ISW) was his commanding officer that literally held on the dying Petraeus, got operated by then Sen. Bill Frist? who was a surgeon at the time of the accident.

Other than that, Gen. Petraeus was not some battlefield commander with towering battlefield success, and besides fighting against the overwhelmingly weak, decrepit Iraqi forces ain't something to brag about.
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And he tried the same tactic in Afghanistan and it failed. The US was lucky the Iraqi insurgency was only the Sunni minority that had no real foreign support. If they had to face the Shia majority backed by Iran next door it would have been a major disaster. There is a reason why the US never went with a plan to disarm all the iraqi Shia militias because they would be wiped out. It would have been Vietnam on steroids.
 
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Can NATO supplied MANPADS take out Abrams and other NATO tanks?

What must be done to overcome these most modern MANPADS? Must speed and mobility be sacrificed for much greater armour? MANPADS are making blitzkriegs obsolete... Advances must be slower and much more cautious... And one of the prime objectives of battle tactics will be to take out MANPAD teams...
 
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Here's a jem from David Frum a staff writer at The Atlantic.



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Weaasel said:
Can NATO supplied MANPADS take out Abrams and other NATO tanks?

What must be done to overcome these most modern MANPADS? Must speed and mobility be sacrificed for much greater armour? MANPADS are making blitzkriegs obsolete... Advances must be slower and much more cautious... And one of the prime objectives of battle tactics will be to take out MANPAD teams...
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Abrams has weak top side armor just like any other tank. And its turret is way larger a target than a T-72 like turret.
The solution is APS basically. That is why the US started putting the Israeli Trophy on the Abrams.
You can also install sensors to detect incoming fire and that will help you find the attacking teams more easily.
 
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gelgoog said:
Abrams has weak top side armor just like any other tank. And its turret is way larger a target than a T-72 like turret.
The solution is APS basically. That is why the US started putting the Israeli Trophy on the Abrams.
You can also install sensors to detect incoming fire and that will help you find the attacking teams more easily.
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APS?
 
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