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channelnewsasia.com/commenta… So I've read this piece of insightful pie from Collin this morning as my brain breakfast. The development of this newer Sentinel-class OPVs which will replace older Sentinel-class MSRVs actually have at least three major key points in which Indonesia could study and try to adapt to it's own practice : 1. From Collin's perspective, the logic behind the presence of these OPVs are clear : To navigate correctly and sending a proper, more calibrated response for crisis/threats that fall short of an armed attack but presenting threats larger than just common coercion techniques, since those crisis could potentially damage or threaten more strategic assets of national interest in the area. I strongly support this perspective since Indonesia also experience this kind of crisis/threats (UUV/Undersea Beacon discovery, Maritime Militia Coercion against Indonesia's EEZ, etc.). Indonesia needs to study Singapore's move in building this vessels, as we all know that Bakamla, a projected Indonesian Coast Guard agency lacks on ships/hull in numbers compared to the operational areas they must stand watch for. 2. The argument that sending these OPVs could be interpreted as "standard, normal and calibrated response" in the blurred zone between Grey Hull of a Navy and White Hull of a Coast Guard presence, is not just a justification, but it's a proper way of addressing those less lethal but impactful threats made by both State Actors or State Sponsored-Non State Actors such as, again, the maritime militia. While sending a larger hull but with limited lethal weapons capability, this could also be interpreted as keeping the political escalation in a stable condition while still maintaining the proper stance against the acts of coercion. 3. One of the major stuff being mostly ignored in the news and discussions surrounding the newer Sentinel-class OPVs is that the RSN decides to employ more less lethal, non-kinetic capabilities to respond on the potential threats which project a non lethal but still influence strategic impact and could potentially damage and disrupt Singapore's national interests in the contested grey zone areas. The Indonesians should also adopt and adapt this kind of move by Singapore. We already starts to employ the same Italian-made SITEP MASS (LRAD) system onboard our PPA/Brawijaya-class Frigate. It would be better if we also explore the potential to use this same systems onboard maybe Bakamla's fleet of White Hull ships. For fellow Indonesians, if you want to know more about the SITEP MASS system in Indonesian service, you can read here at my blog : hobbymiliter.com/13632/sitep…
My latest piece fresh out of the CNA oven, in which I dissect the operational and strategic rationale behind Singapore’s deployment of white hulls within a predominantly grey hull navy fleet. Your honest critique is most welcome. 🙏🏼👇🏼 channelnewsasia.com/commenta…
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Thank you Pak @kristianlobo1 for your kind words and comprehensive reflections on your reading of my piece. 🙏🏽👇🏽
channelnewsasia.com/commenta… So I've read this piece of insightful pie from Collin this morning as my brain breakfast. The development of this newer Sentinel-class OPVs which will replace older Sentinel-class MSRVs actually have at least three major key points in which Indonesia could study and try to adapt to it's own practice : 1. From Collin's perspective, the logic behind the presence of these OPVs are clear : To navigate correctly and sending a proper, more calibrated response for crisis/threats that fall short of an armed attack but presenting threats larger than just common coercion techniques, since those crisis could potentially damage or threaten more strategic assets of national interest in the area. I strongly support this perspective since Indonesia also experience this kind of crisis/threats (UUV/Undersea Beacon discovery, Maritime Militia Coercion against Indonesia's EEZ, etc.). Indonesia needs to study Singapore's move in building this vessels, as we all know that Bakamla, a projected Indonesian Coast Guard agency lacks on ships/hull in numbers compared to the operational areas they must stand watch for. 2. The argument that sending these OPVs could be interpreted as "standard, normal and calibrated response" in the blurred zone between Grey Hull of a Navy and White Hull of a Coast Guard presence, is not just a justification, but it's a proper way of addressing those less lethal but impactful threats made by both State Actors or State Sponsored-Non State Actors such as, again, the maritime militia. While sending a larger hull but with limited lethal weapons capability, this could also be interpreted as keeping the political escalation in a stable condition while still maintaining the proper stance against the acts of coercion. 3. One of the major stuff being mostly ignored in the news and discussions surrounding the newer Sentinel-class OPVs is that the RSN decides to employ more less lethal, non-kinetic capabilities to respond on the potential threats which project a non lethal but still influence strategic impact and could potentially damage and disrupt Singapore's national interests in the contested grey zone areas. The Indonesians should also adopt and adapt this kind of move by Singapore. We already starts to employ the same Italian-made SITEP MASS (LRAD) system onboard our PPA/Brawijaya-class Frigate. It would be better if we also explore the potential to use this same systems onboard maybe Bakamla's fleet of White Hull ships. For fellow Indonesians, if you want to know more about the SITEP MASS system in Indonesian service, you can read here at my blog : hobbymiliter.com/13632/sitep…
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“Excuse me Ms. McGonagall but I heard you were in Vietnam.” “How do you know about Vietnam Potter?” “I did attend muggle schools before I came to Hogwarts. I learned a little about it in history class.” “Oh right. Well if it will sate your curiosity and get you back on task then, yes I was in Vietnam.” “Brilliant! But what were you doing getting involved in a Muggle war?” “I was asked by the Ministry to tend to some dreadful affair. What the Reds were doing to the old magical families in the region was… concerning.” “And what did you do?” “Nothing really I was a liaison you see. I worked with the Military Assistance Command Vietnam, Studies and Observation Group or MACV-SOG for short.” “Oh…that sounds…” “Boring? I can assure you dear boy it was anything but. That, however, is a story best told when you’re much, much older. Preferably over shots of fire whiskey. Now back to your studies.”
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Overgeared series fell into the same sinkhole all manhwa do past a certain chapter; dropping it in favor of continuing Silent Witch.
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ABSOLUTE CINEMA AKWAKWAKWKAW. Konteks: Buka gambarnya, lihat handle akun yang ada di gambar ini.
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Decelerating at 60G towards a star system near you on a zetawatt class monopole conversion torch broadcasting on all spectrum that I’m unarmed and come in peace
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This torch drive is turning 11.1 tons of matter into pure energy per second. If the exhaust is a 20° cone, and it grazes an Earth-like planet, it would cause "all the global warming since the Industrial Revolution" within 30 million km then "boil the oceans" within 3 million km.
Decelerating at 60G towards a star system near you on a zetawatt class monopole conversion torch broadcasting on all spectrum that I’m unarmed and come in peace
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RT @iketnos: Although I miss you, I hope whoever was behind the Ike persona has healed from what being that character took from you
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I am investigating exposing a searchable version of a bunch of scraped DTIC papers for experimental purposes. It would be a limited subset, something like maybe 40000 PDFs. Maybe in the next 2 months. Your searches would not be private because I need search results /1
This is the core problem with DTIC being taken down. For a nation currently invested in "reindustrialization," especially in the defense sphere, this is an unforced error potentially to the tune of millions of dollars, let alone the opportunities for innovation lost.
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Everytime I hear eki I start convulsing and cumming all over the place and my holes start opening on their own like they know their place is below him an
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Further back, the “problem in Greek ethics” with which J. A. Symonds sought to dignify the emerging homosexual type in the late nineteenth century, while not explicitly committed to an ethical justification of pederasty, could easily have been turned to such an end.
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More broadly, if there has been a consistent fetishized body type within the dominant regimes of heterosexuality for the past century, it has been that of the sexually ambiguous ephebe such as: Dorian Gray but also Kate Moss; Demi Moore but also Troye Sivan, [cont...]
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especially as portrayed by Timothée Chalamet, whose deliciously feminized name sets a trajectory of androgynized twinkiness. The moral and political paradoxes engendered by the consistent fetish for youth that characterized the heterosexual century now ending are well known.
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[...] not so much of the paedophile but of the child, who by being presumed incapable of consent was being excluded from the category of the human subject.
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[...] relatively sanguine about the possibility of what Rubin called “cross-generational” sex, but the question was mainstream enough to the French bourgeoisie of the 1970s that a public letter opposing age of consent laws in 1977 was signed by Jean-Paul Sartre [cont...]
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[...] and Simone de Beauvoir, though not by Foucault or Hélène Cixous. Both emerging queer theoretical practices and the radical feminist movements of the late second wave saw the idea of an age of consent as an intolerable form of social domination, [cont...]
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The historical emergence of the paedophile as the typifying example of desire as a curse has felt inevitable only in retrospect. As is well known, not merely were gay and queer intellectual pioneers like Michel Foucault, Guy Hocquenghem, and Gayle Rubin [cont...]
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🖋: master, i’m only yours. i like you. i like you so much! so please bully me… bully me some more..! #SliceOfIke
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Unmarked and unidentifiable aircraft in the morning.
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