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Re:Satellite warfare: An arms race is brewing in orbit by michaelt on Thursday August 20, 2020 @06:11PM (#24229624)
Ironically, a navy that doesn't leaves port is a naval strategy of the 1690s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being
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Re:Satellite warfare: An arms race is brewing in orbit by segfaultbuserr on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:35PM (#24231406)
And the Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine in nuclear warfare can be seen as nothing but a sequential development of this naval strategy. I was surprised when I first learned it.
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Re:Satellite warfare: An arms race is brewing in orbit by azernik on Thursday August 20, 2020 @06:18PM (#24229687)
Even later - it was the main German naval strategy of WWI.
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Re:Satellite warfare: An arms race is brewing in orbit by edgyquant on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:10PM (#24231575)
Not sure if you're being humorous or not but that's because they lost immediately in the opening battle.
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Re:Satellite warfare: An arms race is brewing in orbit by azernik on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:50PM (#24231789)
They kept their fleet in port for most of the war; Jutland was halfway through the war, when the Germans lost patience, ended indecisively, and led the Germans to return to a fleet-in-being policy.
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Re:Satellite warfare: An arms race is brewing in orbit by hoppla on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:32AM (#24232585)
In chess, "The threat is stronger than the execution"-Aron Nimzowitsch
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