{"id":14083,"date":"2023-09-11T22:29:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T02:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2023-09-11T22:29:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T02:29:19","slug":"eyrie-up-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/eyrie-up-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyrie up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Eyrie post has gone live: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mikehendrix.substack.com\/p\/tech-marches-ever-on\"><strong>Tech marches ever on<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d a discussion of the way advances in technology and the basic concepts of how war is properly and successfully waged are and have always tended to radically shift the ground under the very feet of those charged with actually <em>fighting<\/em> said war. Excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Repeating carbine rifles; pistols; wireless radio communications; tanks; submarines; radar; sonar; piston-engine airplanes; the Norden bombsight; jets\u2014all scoffed at as either extravagantly costly toys or unworkable, pie-in-the-sky daydreams by an ossified officer class who would soon find themselves shocked\u2014<em>SHOCKED!<\/em>\u2014at armies under their command having their asses kicked all to Hell and gone by them, often wielded by OpFor numbers greatly, even lopsidedly, inferior to their own. It\u2019s the oldest story in the long annals of human warfare, going all the way back to mighty, invincible Goliath laughing at David and his puny slingshot, if not longer. The really baffling part of it is how very few professional officers in the higher ranks seem capable of learning the lesson history keeps trying, again and again and again, to teach them.<\/p>\n<p>It has long been said that you can\u2019t kill an idea. Left unspoken is the correlating truism: ideas can for sure kill <em>you<\/em>. For the infantryman, they <em>will<\/em>, and <em>have<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Go ye and read of it, for It. Is. Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Eyrie post has gone live: \u201cTech marches ever on,\u201d a discussion of the way advances in technology and the basic concepts of how war is properly and successfully waged are and have always tended to radically shift the ground under the very feet of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/eyrie-up-46\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Eyrie up!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-eyrie","wpcat-199-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14084,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions\/14084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}