Mert N. Matsumoto (松本信秀)
@arveloamert.bsky.social
Japanese-Turkish, PhD (C) IR, Working on Seapower, Geopolitics, Mil. Strategy, FP. Analysis and Owner of World News Journal (RT ≠ Endorsement)
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First Event Announcement!
We are excited to invite you to the Kick-off Meeting and the expert panel titled "Japan's Strategic Culture as a Global Actor", the first event of our project "Assessing the Strategic Culture of Globalized Japan in an Age of Polycrisis."
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We are excited to invite you to the Kick-off Meeting and the expert panel titled "Japan's Strategic Culture as a Global Actor", the first event of our project "Assessing the Strategic Culture of Globalized Japan in an Age of Polycrisis."
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May 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
First Event Announcement!
We are excited to invite you to the Kick-off Meeting and the expert panel titled "Japan's Strategic Culture as a Global Actor", the first event of our project "Assessing the Strategic Culture of Globalized Japan in an Age of Polycrisis."
@emelparlar2
We are excited to invite you to the Kick-off Meeting and the expert panel titled "Japan's Strategic Culture as a Global Actor", the first event of our project "Assessing the Strategic Culture of Globalized Japan in an Age of Polycrisis."
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December 24, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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87) ... with Chinese and NK bodies, it was still one of the toughest and deadliest battles for the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines. Staying vigilant, checking your magazines and keeping your eyes wide open even at night is the best way since NK troops also looks for gaining the first shooter advantage.
December 15, 2024 at 11:02 PM
87) ... with Chinese and NK bodies, it was still one of the toughest and deadliest battles for the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines. Staying vigilant, checking your magazines and keeping your eyes wide open even at night is the best way since NK troops also looks for gaining the first shooter advantage.
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86) But still we can't make and see them as fools and underestimate their presence. It is clear that they will face heavy casualties but a firable mass force is still a mass. They will burn-out Ukrainian ammunition, time and to some degree men power. Even once fields around Chosin has filled...
December 15, 2024 at 11:02 PM
86) But still we can't make and see them as fools and underestimate their presence. It is clear that they will face heavy casualties but a firable mass force is still a mass. They will burn-out Ukrainian ammunition, time and to some degree men power. Even once fields around Chosin has filled...
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85) It means, it is highly possible that you will die if enemy has already detected+positioned your location. So if fire has once started your mortality chance is greater than 60%. This concentration and closing-in becomes an obstacle and a greater risk. NKs will learn this but will be in a hard way
December 15, 2024 at 11:02 PM
85) It means, it is highly possible that you will die if enemy has already detected+positioned your location. So if fire has once started your mortality chance is greater than 60%. This concentration and closing-in becomes an obstacle and a greater risk. NKs will learn this but will be in a hard way
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84) By this way, they feel themselves under a sense of control, safeness and this gives them an ability to react and use suppression fire in a concentrated way if Ukrainians fire first. But here is the problem, in both trench and modern warfare there is a first-contact advantage. What this means?
December 15, 2024 at 11:02 PM
84) By this way, they feel themselves under a sense of control, safeness and this gives them an ability to react and use suppression fire in a concentrated way if Ukrainians fire first. But here is the problem, in both trench and modern warfare there is a first-contact advantage. What this means?
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83) They know that Ukrainians have already positioned themselves and mastered to fight as dispersed and disguised forces, they are alien to the territory and they knew they are under a constant aerial reconing and surveillance. It is a natural instinct to try closing-in to a familial face in unknown
December 15, 2024 at 11:02 PM
83) They know that Ukrainians have already positioned themselves and mastered to fight as dispersed and disguised forces, they are alien to the territory and they knew they are under a constant aerial reconing and surveillance. It is a natural instinct to try closing-in to a familial face in unknown
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82) But failure to disperse in modern war is almost a near death situation. Don't they know this? Of course they know. But this awareness of danger makes them more exposed. Why even as platoons, North Koreans continues to move forward in open terrain as close-in groups? It is a pure human instinct.
December 15, 2024 at 11:02 PM
82) But failure to disperse in modern war is almost a near death situation. Don't they know this? Of course they know. But this awareness of danger makes them more exposed. Why even as platoons, North Koreans continues to move forward in open terrain as close-in groups? It is a pure human instinct.
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81) Even current Russian and North Korean Offensive tactics look similiar, NK forces still faces a bigger risk for even higher casualties. Why? They don't know the territory as well as Russians and could have problems with finding cover or worse friendly fire issues. So dispersing is a risk or them.
December 15, 2024 at 11:02 PM
81) Even current Russian and North Korean Offensive tactics look similiar, NK forces still faces a bigger risk for even higher casualties. Why? They don't know the territory as well as Russians and could have problems with finding cover or worse friendly fire issues. So dispersing is a risk or them.
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80) ... to encircle the positions and anniilate or attrit enemies. This is pretty similiar with today's Russian offensive doctrine which is also prone to heavy casualties. I am pretty sure that both their Russian mentors and NK Commanders warned them about how much war has changed and more lethal.
December 15, 2024 at 11:02 PM
80) ... to encircle the positions and anniilate or attrit enemies. This is pretty similiar with today's Russian offensive doctrine which is also prone to heavy casualties. I am pretty sure that both their Russian mentors and NK Commanders warned them about how much war has changed and more lethal.
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79) As I stated earlier, it comes from NK's own military culture. They are a military of mass and indoctrination who fight and train in mass. They try to concentrate, move in large groups (if possible disguise at night but night vision and being an alien make this harder)...
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59) One of the most important but less vocalized reality for North Korean forces lays in their own culture. North Korean military is a military of mass. They need guidance from interpreters and political commissars. But the war in Ukraine is a fight of smaller platoon level wars, mass means death.
December 15, 2024 at 10:52 PM
79) As I stated earlier, it comes from NK's own military culture. They are a military of mass and indoctrination who fight and train in mass. They try to concentrate, move in large groups (if possible disguise at night but night vision and being an alien make this harder)...
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78) It also looks like the Russian Command arranged them as platoons like its own Storm-Z troops. But one problem persists, North Korean troops (even in platoon-level) tries to act close to each other on open field rather than in cover, disguise and as dispersed. It is not surprising as expected.
December 15, 2024 at 10:52 PM
78) It also looks like the Russian Command arranged them as platoons like its own Storm-Z troops. But one problem persists, North Korean troops (even in platoon-level) tries to act close to each other on open field rather than in cover, disguise and as dispersed. It is not surprising as expected.
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77) Reports and FPV-originated videos shows that, as expected, North Koreans experienced high amount of losses. The views of dead bodies on fields of #Kursk resembled me the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in 1950 Korean War. It appears like the Russians gave them little and limited general training.
December 15, 2024 at 10:52 PM
77) Reports and FPV-originated videos shows that, as expected, North Koreans experienced high amount of losses. The views of dead bodies on fields of #Kursk resembled me the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in 1950 Korean War. It appears like the Russians gave them little and limited general training.
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76) North Korean soldiers are reported to be deployed in various fronts in #Kursk and some unconfirmed reports even underlines that they are also being or at least prepared to be deployed within #Ukraine. NK forces took part in Russian operations (or solely executed it is unclear) to retake Guyevo.
December 15, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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The map of this new naval exercise by #China against #Taiwan looks substantially different from the previous ones. It is not a simulation for a amphibious assault on the island. It is more like a littoral power show aimed at controlling the Taiwanese Strait. This is important since…
December 12, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Me: *I will remain a solid bi-partizan in the U.S. politics even what happens*
Trump: Hehe, what about I am nominating a conspiracy theorist to the Voice of America...
Me: *Rage Intensifies*
Trump: Hehe, what about I am nominating a conspiracy theorist to the Voice of America...
Me: *Rage Intensifies*
December 12, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Me: *I will remain a solid bi-partizan in the U.S. politics even what happens*
Trump: Hehe, what about I am nominating a conspiracy theorist to the Voice of America...
Me: *Rage Intensifies*
Trump: Hehe, what about I am nominating a conspiracy theorist to the Voice of America...
Me: *Rage Intensifies*
The map of this new naval exercise by #China against #Taiwan looks substantially different from the previous ones. It is not a simulation for a amphibious assault on the island. It is more like a littoral power show aimed at controlling the Taiwanese Strait. This is important since…
December 12, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Where is our global peace maker China????? This weekend, they were pretty silent...
December 8, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Where is our global peace maker China????? This weekend, they were pretty silent...
So it ended… Assad is gone. But everything starts now. We have 6 different players and power holder groups on the ground. Now it is time to make Syria.
December 8, 2024 at 4:25 PM
So it ended… Assad is gone. But everything starts now. We have 6 different players and power holder groups on the ground. Now it is time to make Syria.
When the Norse people first arrived to the North America and interacted with the local Innuit Community. Things went violent since Norse adventurers killed an Inuit in curiosity whether they are same human beings as them. This haunted the whole Viking community in upcoming winter.
December 8, 2024 at 4:22 PM
When the Norse people first arrived to the North America and interacted with the local Innuit Community. Things went violent since Norse adventurers killed an Inuit in curiosity whether they are same human beings as them. This haunted the whole Viking community in upcoming winter.
Recent events in #Syria shows one reality about how the U.S. should engage with Africa and Middle East. Let them go in their own way but isolate the problem it not spreads to your allies. Cut all aid and credits, let them fully cooperate with Russia, China, etc. Let your rivals to settle, invest and
December 7, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Recent events in #Syria shows one reality about how the U.S. should engage with Africa and Middle East. Let them go in their own way but isolate the problem it not spreads to your allies. Cut all aid and credits, let them fully cooperate with Russia, China, etc. Let your rivals to settle, invest and
They went whole all-out in Sorosian way... Fate is someting like that. It entitles you to become the one who you hate the most...
"As Donald Trump gathered his supporters, family and friends at Mar-a-Lago on US election day last month to wait for the results to trickle in, a small group of far-right Germans went largely unnoticed", reports @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Far-right activists from Germany spent US election day at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
AfD parliamentary candidate and influencers posed for photos with now president-elect at his Florida home
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 9:32 AM
They went whole all-out in Sorosian way... Fate is someting like that. It entitles you to become the one who you hate the most...
Legit or not, there is a very real incentive and benefit for #Russia to directly assault hybridly on #Romania. It is the main entrance of logistics and weapons for #Ukraine with Poland, a #NATO power who allowed Ukraine's grain shipments from Black Sea and a key chance to isolate Moldova.
December 6, 2024 at 10:40 PM