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06-09-2009, 01:53 PM
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Rampart had a great design that didn't require too much effort to modernize. He has one of those great looks that Hasbro really got right the first time out. Great work.
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That is a really good looking Rampart!
Thanks guys!
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Yeah, still doesn't seem all that much defensive wise to protect a huge vessel like the Flagg, even with it's own man-portable defenses, a group of 6 Morays would put a pretty big hole into it.
Now a JHSV with 2 of those Mark V for escort. Now we're talking..
I've always been for de-centralized force structuring myself, so the idea of replacing a carrier with 2 smaller vessels is something I can get behind. Instead of having one big central hub for command and staff, have everything set up in a way that you've got all the essential C2 functions distributed among non-colocated semi-independent cells or nodes (something that guerilla armies and insurgent organizations have been doing for decades, and why it's so hard to use the old military dictum of "cut off the head and the body will die" against them). The "central command" concept is so 20th century Cold War (although a lot of militaries still insist on it... many commanders just can't abide by the idea of having independently thinking sub-units under their command).
"Cell" structuring was used to devastating and efficient effect against the US during the Vietnam War and against the USSR during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. SF and DEVGRU have been organized in a manner more akin to the guerilla and terrorist organizations they've been designed to counteract, and I think it's time the rest of the conventional military started doing the same to a limited extent in theaters where the enemy takes the form of a decentralized network organization and not a traditionally regimented and hierarchical army.
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