Camouflage for high value assets is rapidly becoming a point of focus.
The Armenia-Azerbaijan war of 2020 and the Russia-Ukraine war of 2022 have both displayed the growing need to prioritise sensor camouflage.
The contemporary peer on peer battlefield runs 24/7, but humans require periodic quality rest.
The two most recent peer on peer conflicts display how stopping and harbouring up makes you an easier fixed target.
The conundrum of the modern battlefield is that if you stop, you die. But if you don’t stop, you face rapid cognitive decline and die.
Sensor camouflage could be an insurance policy that meets or exceeds minimum rest and recovery needs of soldiers as well as improving expensive asset survivability in a world looking increasingly like “SCUD the Disposable Assassin” where loitering munitions are getting cheap enough to target individual combatants.
I wonder if your personal situation is an example of the changes we’ve seen with the increasingly central role online dating has on individuals matching with potential partners.
The article details how men match far less frequently than women, with most matches by women for males enjoyed by only a small population of highly desired males.
Highly desired males have a far greater selection of females to choose from than average males, and would be far more likely to enjoy the benefits without the relationship commitment.
Your being ghosted immediately following matching or their failed efforts at immediate physical intimacy may be an indicator that you are only pursuing highly desired males.
If so, then maybe you are caught in loop where your initial choices in highly desirable males have a ‘cereal aisle syndrome’ or Netflix scrolling problem in selecting you.
To be blunt, maybe visually you are an 8 striving to match with a 10?
Getting beyond just the visual and to the substantial requires in person meeting for most males to void being filtered out.
I can’t really offer any advice other than keep your ‘attack surface area’ high to increase opportunities for serendipity!
Don’t underestimate serendipity.
And just surf the waves life sends your way.
Good luck and I hope you are happy and full of purpose regardless of relationship and kid status.
I see it as deterrence, even if it is a completely fabricated claim by the US.
If you can convince Ukrainians that a Russian invasion would result in these kind of terrible things happening, then they're much more likely to put up a bloody fight. This then increases the cost and risk of Russia invading Ukraine in the first place, which serves as deterrence.
I took the family to the Mount John Observatory near Lake Tekapo here in New Zealand thru the Dark Skies Project.
It was quite impressive.
As was the considerable efforts the town of Tekapo has gone to in order to limit light pollution with all external public lighting.
Just south of that location is an NZDF training area where one night I was able to observe an object burn across the night sky thru a night vision monocular and a thermal sighting system during an overnight training activity.
The seemingly substantial size and slow speed of the object going across the horizon from east to west was really unsettling, but there was nothing in the news the next day.
Several years later at an Act in Space Hackathon an attendee helped me determine that it was likely a booster stage breaking up from a Vandenberg Air Force Base launch.
Lots of stories about this being the first recorded incident of Orcas hunting a Blue Whale.
There’s at least one colour photo with the associated story of an Orca pod hunting a Blue Whale in the 1960’s/1970’s timeframe, published in National Geographic IIRC.
> But once the news cycle was over it was quietly, rapidly, and largely repealed:
The substance of that article only says that the online public disclosure requirements were narrowed from encompassing all Federal and Congressional employees to only elected officials and key appointees. If you read the Whitehouse signing statement (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/0...) linked by the article, this is more clear. Employees' disclosures were taken offline out of privacy concerns, apparently. The article is somewhat ambiguous on this point, and hints at more significant changes, but I take it as rhetoric, otherwise it would have been relatively easy to be crystal clear on these points. (Shame on the reporter, but at least such unquestioned political cynicism is non-partisan.)
Perhaps there have been subsequent amendments as well. Nonetheless, according to this April 2020 research paper, https://www.nber.org/papers/w26975, Senators have underperformed the market since 2012.
EDIT: And most obvious, if trading disclosures of elected officials weren't still available online, then websites like https://senatestockwatcher.com/ wouldn't exist.
There’s a great book on Boyd written by an acquaintance of mine(Major Ian Brown) from Marine Corps University’s Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare:
First the Russians use very limited budget/capacity to beat Tom Cruise in making the first film in space for optics.
And that’s after a series of serious quality control and operational errors.
And now the Russians appear to be re-acting the first act of the Sandra Bullock space film Gravity, where a Russian ASAT is the plot device to kick off the film.
The Armenia-Azerbaijan war of 2020 and the Russia-Ukraine war of 2022 have both displayed the growing need to prioritise sensor camouflage.
The contemporary peer on peer battlefield runs 24/7, but humans require periodic quality rest.
The two most recent peer on peer conflicts display how stopping and harbouring up makes you an easier fixed target.
The conundrum of the modern battlefield is that if you stop, you die. But if you don’t stop, you face rapid cognitive decline and die.
Sensor camouflage could be an insurance policy that meets or exceeds minimum rest and recovery needs of soldiers as well as improving expensive asset survivability in a world looking increasingly like “SCUD the Disposable Assassin” where loitering munitions are getting cheap enough to target individual combatants.