Losing: Not Always A Loss

Day 2,828, 13:27 • Published in USA USA • by Gnilraps
T'aint No Sin (Mandatory listening)
Day 2828 of the New World
August 18, 2015



As usual, I invite those who've been living under a rock to catch up on the events of the past week.

Read Derphoof's review which is precise about the facts while slanted in interpretation.

Read BeachBunny's Apology where she takes personal responsibility for the lack of communication and poor timing of the Paraguayan AirStrke, and where she makes promises for a better tomorrow.

Read SColbert's Press Briefing where... well just read it.

And Read the lengthy diatribes in Private Congress wherein certain Congresspeople are working to hold the Executive fully responsible for the breadth of the scope of this failure while other Congresspeople are trying to move on. Oh wait. You can't read Private Congress boards? Well SHAME ON YOUR CONGRESSMEN for not publishing their views about what has gone on. If they won't communicate to you the voter... replace them next month.





In case you didn't bother reading all of that stuff, here's the tl;dr:

eUS chose to AirStrke Paraguay to create a border with Chile so that we could join the gang-bang that is taking place against them. Chile is unpopular with our allies and just about the closest thing we have to an actual enemy.

The AirStrike plan was the quickest route. A slower land-based plan was proposed by Oblige but rejected by the Executive because it was seen as too slow.

A war-hungry President dove hastily into war, allowed our allies to dictate the timing, and eUS was defeated. We were not defeated by Paraguay though, we were defeated by mostly Chileans putting up big numbers in Divisions 1, 2, and 3.








OK. Now that you are caught up, I want to offer my two cents on things.

It is my view that our AirStrike failure was actually an unintended success.

It is now obvious that eUSA represents a legitimate threat on the battlefield. How can I say this in the aftermath of a spanking? Answer: Look at BiH.

Just after our failed AirStrike, Bosnia and Herzegovina followed suit. And what happened? BiH was successful in their AirStrike!

Now anyone with a brain knows that BiH is no match for eUSA on the Battlefield. The fact is, when eUSA attacked, Chile was afraid. They came out against our AirStrike with FULL FORCE (in the lower 3 divisions) because eUSA would have been a gamechanger against Chile.

In fact, other threats were made against eUSA by one of Chile's best Balkan buddies... eUSA would have likely received an incoming AirStrike from Bulgaria had our invasion moved on to direct conflict with Chile. That would have been awesome!

So one minor "success" in all of this is that we were shown the respect of the full weight of the Chilean military. I like this.



But more significantly, our AirStrike achieved a very valuable result.

We bled a good bit of Chile's resources.

Everyone knows that Chile came out gangbusters in the Regiment Rumble competition and their most active tanks (across all divisions, but ESPECIALLY in the lower divisions) won a massive pile of Gold. Guess what they had to spend against eUSA? Trust me, it wasn't Paraguayan Gold resisting our AirStrike.



rivers of chilean gold being drained...

Oh. And if we are to bleed their warchest of its resources, I'd MUCH rather do it on foreign soil than on our own native ground.





So despite the loss in one single campaign, I believe gains were achieved. And I invite BeachBunny to consider the strategic value of this loss, courageously lead us back in against Chile, and this time dictate the terms of our attack.

It could be that we might even lose another direct engagement with Chile. I would be OK with that too. Because victory over Chile doesn't necessarily have to mean eUSA is directly victorious. It takes all kinds of military maneuvers to win a war.

Am I attempting to mitigate a battlefield loss? No. I truly believe that a Paraguayan AirStrike was winnable. I believe the Administration lacked foresight, planning, coordination, experience, balls, and support. It was an inexcusable loss.

It's just that as the dust settles, I like what I see.



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