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What breaks or bends if women get drafted? Does the 'protect women' instinct finally die? Would shared foxholes bond the or poison everything?

Personal opinion is if the Queens want the crown, they need to carry the sword.
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>>6232
All conscription should be ended, but if we have to have it then yes it obviously should include women

>>6345
Yeah, Israel for a very prominent example. But almost never have I have seen any of these women in actual combat. Ukraine supposedly has a lot of female troops, but never see them in actual combat. I don't really know what any of these countries do with their female troops, but my guess is they always assign them to the rear guard type work. MPs, guards, shit like that.

>>6239
>Women should be conscripted en masse while male conscription will end
This is the best idea right here. We should do it as reparations for all the years of the patriarchy where they weren't allowed to serve.

>>6232
In the future Global USSR, all 18-year old Citizens, both Male and Female, will be conscripted into two years of service in the International Red Guards, the Global Paramilitary organization controlled by the Global Communist Party that will enforce the Worldwide Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (they will be responsible for purging the Superstructure of all Reactionary elements, including eliminating Religion, Purging/Re-Educating Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists, stoping all Counter-Revolutionary activity, eliminating Bourgeois Femininity by making sure no Women have Long Hair (Hair below the Chin and/or longer then a Pixie cut), Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick, etc. along with running Struggle Sessions and Re-Education Camps, etc.) with all conscripted 18-year old Women being sent to the Maoist Boot Camps where their Hair will be shaved off in a buzz cut, they will wear Military Mao Suits, they will live in Military barracks, and they will spend every day rotating between Maoist ideological indoctrination classes where they read the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Gonzalo, in order to truly comprehend the theory required to fully embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the highest stage of Marxism, and high-intensity Paramilitary training that will involve both extremely intensive physical exercise and weapons training (primarily Small Arms as all Heavy weapons will be controlled by the Global Peoples Liberation Army, the all-volunteer force that won the World Maoist PPW and is now dedicated to suppressing Anti-Communist insurgencies) all of which will fully purge them of any vestiges of Bourgeois Femininity and the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary, with the two years every Female Global USSR Citizen serves in the International Red Guards between the ages of 18 and 20, being a rite of passage to transform them into Liberated Socialist Women that uphold the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the highest stage of Marxism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️ 💇‍♀️👩‍🦲!

Conscription is rape and those that enforce it shoul be treated as such.



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Militaries emerged primarily as institutions for securing wealth rather than territory. Early organized violence could have been driven by the need to protect trade routes, seize productive farmland, monopolize valuable resources, and enforce tribute, with political borders forming later as a byproduct of sustained economic extraction rather than the original objective. Militaries developed as mechanisms for managing large populations of ambitious young men whose competitiveness threatened internal stability. By channeling status-seeking, aggression, and risk-taking into campaigns against external rivals, societies reduced domestic conflict while rewarding martial success with prestige, wealth, and opportunities that might otherwise have fueled feuds or political unrest. Militaries originated less to defend against outsiders than to consolidate power within early states. A ruler with a permanent armed force no longer depended entirely on temporary loyalties from local clans or nobles, making it easier to suppress rebellions, enforce taxation, and transform personal authority into centralized government. External warfare then became as much a justification for maintaining the army as its original purpose. Militaries may have arisen as ritual institutions before they became effective fighting forces. Public displays of discipline, uniforms, ceremonies, and collective sacrifice could have served to bind otherwise unrelated communities into a shared identity, with the practical business of warfare growing out of cultural traditions that already celebrated organized violence as a marker of civilization and belonging.
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>>6365
can you defeat the military unarmed or do you need a military of your own

You know how some wehraboos swear they aren't actually fascists and just like Nazi aesthetics and military? I think the opposite happens with some socialists in that they don't actually believe communism and instead just enjoy the Red Army and Cold War aesthetics.

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>>6368
well yeah that's definitely a thing but I don't get that out of OP based on the text alone.
>>6365
I think in most countries cops are worse than soldiers because cops are all volunteer while soldiers are usually drafted. In a few countries like the USA you have an all volunteer army, which really does make them the "World Police."

Not to use the "clean wehrmacht" excuse, just to point out that no revolution has ever been won without significant defection from the military, usually in really bad conditions. You can accept defectors from the military but you can't let them become the intellectual leaders of the revolution otherwise you'll just end up with Bonapartism.

States emerged to enslave the neighbors into making and maintaining canals. Then you needed more slaves to work the new arable land.

>>6365
This 100%
Anything bigger than a people's militia will become baby-killing scumbags just like the US army



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The Murder of John "Cusack" Washburne ("Fallout"):

Green Goblin: Hack of Hanscom, military mail; for France and Britain, Saddam Hussein; Order of Loyola, James Holmes. "The Wire".

Doctor Octopus: Forced hack, NSA units on station; reversal of Catholic Saints, Martyred by Catechism and Church per private profit, as public debt; St. Brandsma, Holocaust victim; Dr. Boris Tomasic, "Batman Begins".

Venom: Indoctrination of "Snakes and Swords", ROTC "Indie", per "Air Force Embassy"; CIA, hits on Lutheran German Synod, KGB INTERPOL, British Black and Tans, British Mossad, and IDF US Navy; Nicholas Maynard, "The Thirteenth Step, A Perfect Circle".

Each DC Comics main title, is a father or mother's guide, with a myth to the child to protect them.

If a "society", a new investment; a defeat, and an inclusion in the Department of Defense; "The Irgun".

My father, was CIA; "Green Lantern", Arrkis Chummuck; Ted Bundy's print, an Arab CIA.

The villain is you, until marriage.

I took Alex Nero; Wonder Woman and Selina Kyle, a female soldier and an MI-6 bet holder out of FOX (EON) and BBC (British Union of Fascists) as my mother.

EON, the IDF and KKK of Arizona, gender rules per counter-intelligence.

BBC, refusal to serve in a British War, as an anti-war resistance, hunting subversives worldwide.

Weimar Agent (West German Ciphers): 1989, to 2003; application of caveats rule, per dispreferred in split Jewish-Hebrew concept.

Vatican Assassin (Wiccan Covenant): 1996, to 2026; removal per criminal leader against liquor and freedom of birth, against Iranian support groups; bisexual Doges of European art house.

National Security Agency (Human Intelligence): 2001, to 2019; removal of NRA groups, per NRO support; firearms brokers, out of Yeltsin Basim; Russian, Canadian, and Boston.

Central Intelligence Agency (MKULTRA): 2003, to 2026; test proctor per LSD sales through FBI and forward airbase, UMass-Amherst; five prints of "dream journal", "Patient Zero Mandelbrot"; reduction and removal of British and French and Italian Ba'ath, Tubman given to Israel, France, and Russia.

College Subjects:

Law School: Resource Economics, Energy Supply; parts supply, labor pay, and oil mileage, per registered family history of public resource, as price of car on public line of advertisement successful.

Lieutenant Platoon: Pre-Law History, Oil Bearing Nations; CIA, investigation per belligerents in cause of war, rape victims as per reporting; RTS counselor, as military; "always believe the victim"; international politics, prisoner counselor of Nazis (tattoos).

Field Patrol Media: Creative Writing, Fiction; field patrol, State Senator Scott Brown, New Hampshire; JAG, Army National Guard; general leadership, as plagiarism from own texts; national politics, as print. Through political veterans.



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I've been thinking about drones, especially small FPV ones. Everyone talks about how its going to change warfare yada yada. But the really disruptive thing is that it enables individuals to target the ruling class much easier.

Think about guns for example. Before guns, you needed to have expensive armor, swords, shields, spears, bows and extensive training to be a lethal soldier. Only the elites could afford that, and that's why peasant/slave revolutions were not only few and far between, but they all were brutally put down quite easily.

Once guns came into the picture, the elites were not so safe anymore, and there came about a change in political structures to accomodate the masses more both politically and economically.

Now I think drones are another step in this direction. Indivuduals can easily build drones, and with advances in AI, then can just create a program instructing it to fly and identify a wealthy elite and kill them. With proper op-sec, someone can release a drone a mile away in a forest, set it on its kill path, and then run away.

The elites can be killed en-masse with the security forces having a very tough time trying to counter it and identify the perpetrators. Now all of this is theoretical of course, but technological acceleration is going to make this a reality much sooner than you think.

This is why I think the push for mass surveillance is happening. The elites are aware that there is a material change coming in the relative military power of organized armies and disparate dissident lone wolfs. Mass surveillance is the only way to ensure they can counter the lone wolfs.
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>>6350
Start by training in virtual reality so you get muscle memory how to steer the drone. Its quite hard until you have done it for couple of days. You dont need VR-goggles but having a proper controller is a must. After buying first drone and flying it outside try to avoid trees as rotors easily tangle in branches and it can get stuck there. Cheap drones have terrible signal so focus on having good connection.

wont radio weapons kill off drones doe

>>6352
nitpicky and elite just means "ruling class" which can include bourgeois or incredibly wealthy people who don't own means of production (like star actors and athletes)

it just occured to me that if /leftypol/ were serious then >>>/akm/ and >>>/labor/ would be the most popular boards.

>>6355
seen those fiber optic cable things?

>>6354
Recommendations for drone to buy?



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"For The Union Makes Us Strong."
A mischellanious thread for the discussion/formation of revolutionary left wing militias and co-ops.
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Maintain party discipline. Reject adventurism.

>>6255
please share pdf, anon, thank you

idkno

>>6253
It's simply provocative bullshit by a guy other neo-Nazis thought was too much. If you want to read a good book about insurgency (one that were unfortunately written by reactionaries) read Total Resistance and The Brigade.

>>6253
Negative homes. Siege is ideological not tactical. Just neo Nazi ideological nonsense . Read old mil manuals and start shooting with your bros. A decentralized group of homies is the way to go. One of you needs help, phone up the bros. And if one of you goes down, you should hypothetically trust your boy to not squeal.

If you can't trust them not to, don't shoot with them. Don't even tell them abt your guns. These are the tards that will fold under pressure and red flag you. Don't let them.



 

WAR FOOTAGE
Thread for posting military footage (mp4, webm, gif, etc.) and photographs of action from wars, battles and so on. Spoiler gore. The primary purpose of this thread is for pure fighting, not torture-porn, if you think gore-spam is funny you belong on 4cuck.

Non-combat military videos can also apply (vid 2 rel)
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Footage from Belgorod March 29 and April 1 2022, tochka-u presumably

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HIMARS footage

>>6338
Spoiler this is its too NSFW


anyone has any of those videos of american soldiers in Afghanistan crying and hiding under tables?



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Is it because India is just 10 countries wearing a trench coat?

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Same reason why it doesn't happen in most countries, the central government is functional enough and thus roving bandits can't gain legitimacy as a political force across the country, it happens in africa because the politician are all obvious western puppet that put money in their pockets and kill their own legitimacy because they expect to just flee if anything happens

>Is it because India is just 10 countries wearing a trench coat?
More or less, over the last 35 years there's been a growing standardization of regional identities. Currently I'd say there are roughly seven prominent cultural regions. the Hindi Heartland, the Punjabi–Himalayan region, Western India, Bengal, the Telugu–Kannada Southeast, the Tamil–Malayalam South and the English-speaking Northeast. This is just ignoring internal divisions like caste and religion.
These regions are culturally distinct enough that they can almost be thought of as separate nations. They have different languages, traditions, and historical experiences, beyond periods when they were incorporated into the same large empires. The idea of India as a single civilization is one of the few narratives that has broad support across much of the political spectrum, with both the left and the right generally embracing it.

>>6249
they didnt have a Mao. they reached the limits of national developmentalism, liberal democracy and third world socialism. the problem was the big landowners had too much power and pull in the government. they were the obstacle to do land reforms which were necessary for big industrialisation like mao started. although the indians did try.

>Glownonymous
>meow
>Only source Indian state narrative (image), reflected on Glowpedia
>Obvious incorrecteness reflected by its complete absence of activity in northeast
Sage



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ITT post /AKM/ resources to help /AKM/ beginners.

It could be websites, books, videos, etc…

meow. meow. meow. meow. meow. meow. meow. meow. meow. meow. meow.

What do you mean? Like beginner stuff on firearms specifically? What country do you live in? America? What state?



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>>6259
At the opening stages of Ukraine V Russia, Ukraine tried this. It was mostly wasted effort that did not resolve the issues at hand.

Fedposting bad.

Next off, a revolution would not be led by socialist thought, rather reactionary thought in America.

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What can we learn from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and this example of relatively modern warfare? Strategy, tactics, operations, geopolitical responses, information warfare, civilian pov and response. Anything related. Not the thread to talk about "who is in the right".
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>>5264
>LMAO no.
no what ? do you deny you can shoot down a recon drone with a simple motor airplane ?

>Russia shot down those several times

even if they did, the idea was more using it into your own safe airspace. And using any missile to shoot it down, you're still paying too much.

>Jet fighters are needed, as are slower low-tech aircraft, as are SAMs. This is what combined warfare is

no shit, way to miss the point.

>rather than doing what the Su-34 and Su-25 do.

any jet fighter will be a magnitude more expensive than a regular motor plane

>only low tech aircraft

I didnt advocate for having ONLY them. But do you really need a jet for lobbing FAB-500s ?
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>>5270
Your spacing is ass, please don't do this.
>no what ?
You realize that people can scroll up and see exactly what I'm saying "no" to right? The fact is that Ukraine has failed to shoot down drones with its trainers, since it's literally pulling WW-1 shit, with people firing handguns out of open cockpits. There's literally a Russian drone video where they try and fail to shoot it down.
>even if they did, the idea was more using it into your own safe airspace.
*laughs in long range SAM*
You realize that Ukraine has been using very long range stand-off weapons like cruise missiles and are STILL getting shot down, right? Only a few days ago an Su-35 shot down a MiG-29 - which was using a HARM missile in a long-range ground-strike - from over 200km away, with an R-37. Earlier in the war the S-300V4 set a similar record kill from a similar distance of over 200km. An S-400 shot down an Su-27 over Kiev earlier in the war from 150km away. Pantsir, Osa and Tor SPAAG/SAMs have shot down numerous low-flying missiles, drones and other aircraft.
>using any missile to shoot it down, you're still paying too much.
If you're an idiot using patriot anti-ballistic long-range missiles against drones. A single Tor missile costs maybe a couple thousand dollars. A single yak-52 costs 50-100 thousand dollars, so you're dead wrong.
>way to miss the point.
I didn't miss your point. I don't disagree in the necessity of low-tech aircraft, but not like Ukraine is doing, and frankly an attack chopper would do just as well, if not better.
>any jet fighter will be a magnitude more expensive than a regular motor plane
Any jet fighter would also be magnitudes more effective.
>do you really need a jet for lobbing FAB-500s
In an SAM-heavy air-space like Ukraine? YES.
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>>2642
>The idea of it going to 2025
There is a lesson there. Stop being emotional, stop eating the propaganda slop, study everything and look closely at the serious people involved in war and political theory. Honestly I didn't need to do half of that to be sure that this stupid war would last a while so if you were wrong you really need to revamp your way of thinking

>>4897
>>4877
>>4946
Restoring files

https://archive.is/NOR5K

America seeks its McDonald’s model for missile making

<Defence groups are developing modular workshops that can mass-produce cheap missiles during wartime


>The building in north-east Virginia is squat and unremarkable. But inside, rows of missiles lie on worktops waiting to be primed by young technicians for America’s next war. 


>“This is all set up for if we have to go very fast,” said Doug Denneny, a greying veteran whose defence group Co-Aspire rents the warehouse. He strides past a dozen workstations where warheads would be slotted into open-bellied missiles.


>The workshop is designed to solve a simple problem: the US does not produce enough missiles, and those that it does are eye-wateringly expensive. As the country’s munitions stockpiles dwindled during the conflict with Iran, finding ways to produce quickly, cheaply and at scale has become an increasingly urgent challenge.


>Working at full surge capacity, it would currently take the Pentagon years rather than months to replace missiles fired at Iran. America produces only 600 Tomahawks every year, and they cost about $2.6mn apiece. The PrSM and JASSM, two other mainstays, each cost around $1.6mn and $1.9mn.


>“The American arsenal is based exclusively on expensive, exquisite and hard-to-produce weapons systems,” said Michael Horowitz, a former Pentagon official responsible for defence innovation. “We have entered a different era of warfare, and now the US needs to change.”  

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