The American (West) Doctrine of Air Superiority would win Any War has No Validity

This piece is in evolution.

I am not a militaryman but a scientific analyst.

Scott Ritter who is a military expert is agreeing with me.

There is another point of interest here which is that sanctions do not inhibit but energize new innervations.

With our Internal Conflict with LTTE (LTTE created by Indian RAW), there were sanctions imposed by the West on Ceylon.

Ukraine helped us when nobody was helping us. That is why my interest in that conflict.

Sanctions breeds innovative tactics.

Iran was sanctioned and they slowly but surely increased their capacity of ground to air salvos.

Americans believed in Air Superiority.

Already one or two Israel planes were downed and Air Industry including French Rafael crafts have no buyer in the future.

Iranians are not stupid but intelligent.

I have associted with Iranian students in my teaching career and they are above average.

 

YES, the American (West) Doctrine of Air Superiority would win Any War has No Validity.

It is an outdated principle.

 

1. First country to learn that lesson was Russia. 

That was after three years of war with Ukraine.

 

2. Second country learnt that lesson was India.

War with Pakistan where China mitigated air offence.

  

3. Third country that would learn that lesson would be Israel.

I think Israel is fast learning that fact.

In the current day of war Air Planes are soft targets.

Even a ChatGPT linked to a missile battery can take an air plane off a mission.

Russia has made a new doctrine (Listen to President Putin's recent speech, to his military hierarchy), that air superiority depends on the number of manned and unmanned Ariel Projectiles that the country possess, especially the super-subsonic missiles to which Ukraine has no answer.

Iran that does not have air power.

Iran heavily depends on ground to air missiles stored deeply underground.

They will systemically use them to deplete Israel's  surface to surface and surface to ground missiles in stages.

 

I think Israel has made a strategic blunder.

 

They cannot get enough supply of ground to surface missiles from the western sources.

They do not produce them in adequate numbers.

Only country, who is producing missiles in numbers and having a big store is Russia.

 

Even Yemeni  has enough in their store.

Israel cannot ask help from Russia since, Israelists covertly helped Ukraine with military hardware and drone technology.

 

That is again a strategic mistake.

 

Besides, Russia has Oreshnik before going for the nuclear option (arsenal).

There is no win-win situation in modern warfare.

 

Small countries thinking big is a disease.

We have this disease in Ceylon and we have already antagonized Pakistan by siding with India.

There is no country in this world which can raise the head above water and enter diplomacy. 

Ceylon used to be but not any more by having signed agreements with Modi in Public.

 

We must get rid of this NPP/JVP Combo to avoid war in our doorstep.

Non Alignment is dead now.

MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction is in Motion.

I need not say "Third World War" has begun!

I think I am ready to kick the bucket but what about the Young Souls who are making a big percentage in our population statistics?

Rebirth and Mind

 

Rebirth and Mind 

Mind, Memory, Dreams and Consciousness are terms used to describe the working of the brain.       

None of these terms are inclusive nor exclusive in enlightening the understanding of the working of the brain. 

Brain is the most variable component of these elements, if this discussion is extended to the animal kingdom. 

I am going to exclude the brain and its physiology by default.

The reasons, I will briefly outline.

Brain can exist in a vegetative state with modern technological support as long as artificial ventilation is maintained. I have done this myself as an neonatal resident in UK.

One example is enough.

Obstetric Registrar delivered a baby by Cesarean Section. The baby’s heart had stopped a few minutes before. I was called in and I concurred, in fact, the heart had stopped.

I was in a dilemma.

If I do not resuscitate this baby, I will  fall into trouble for negligence with the superiors behind my back. 

This was a locum job not a permanent job.

I made an immediate decision to give intra-cardiac injection and got the attending nurses into full action gear. That included calling in the Senior Registrar for his approval before shoving in the needle to the baby’s heart. He said OK and the baby’s heart did start in a shutdown state. I did another stupid thing immediately afterwards. Shoved in an intra-arterial canula and pumped in saline to stabilize the blood pressure and open up the veins. Intra-arterial infusion was not in vogue, then, except at Oxford University. I used to call the Oxford Registrar for advice on clinical problems.

If I remember right she was a lady doctor.

After stabilizing the physiological state and opening an intravenous infusion, I transferred the baby to the ICU. This baby started fitting after six hours of resuscitation and for another six weeks. Everybody, including the parents were cursing me behind my back.

This was good on me.

I decided to leave UK for good.

I decided not to get involved in anymore of high tech Intensive Care Work.

Of course in later years, I was more comfortable in Pathology where decisions are made “after the fact” at postmortem. 

Even after postmortem only in about 60%, one can make reliable conclusion. The postmortem of this baby did not reveal new facts.         

In Ceylon this baby would have been declared dead without resuscitation. 

Not having technology is a blessing in disguise.

Now coming to my discussion, this baby’s brain was dead but not his heart. 

It was in a vegetative state without properly functioning brain. 

I followed my Buddhist instincts and fell apart with British colleagues. 

In my mind, I was not a God to decide the future for this baby’s life, in this life. 

I am not an arbitrator of Kamma in Evolution. 

I did what the physiology could support but could not intervene, in the evolution of the next life.

Like the “Near Death Experience” of cardiac arrest patients, if I could see into the next life my intervention could have been masterly inactivity.        

But, I have no discretion available according to the practice of Western Medicine except supporting life with artificial means.

The “Let Go” principle according to the nature of events unfolding is not something discussed in depth in the West.

I make following prepositions.

None may be correct, some may be correct, certainly, not all of them are correct.

1. Mind inhabits the brain when suitable but exists it when impossible for functioning. 

Body and Mind in a comforting cave of existence.

2. Mind does not become extinct at death.

3. It grabs another living body and brain by default.

4. The transition period is ill understood as seen in “Near Death Syndrome”.

There is no inter-phase or untar-bhava or elderly wise men helping the soul. 

The transition is quick and automatic without an intervening phase.  

It is like the transmission of an electron through a transistor gate. 

The mind enters the transistor portal and goes into the next “Bhava of Existence” instantaneously and it is one way ticket and no coming back. 

The mind floating in space and looking for a place of rebirth of choice with wise men helping in, is not at all plausible.

The wise men have no right to intervene except masterly inactivity. 

Imagine how all the souls waiting for a rebirth point of entry and thus keep floating in space.

There will be War or Clash of Souls.

I hope you got the point, I am driving at.

Each soul has his or her own pathway of transition. 

Not even so called God can intervene.

5. It either grabs the current body of existence (at least temporarily) with doctors’ help (resuscitation) or has no choice but to exit and enter its own individual path.

6. Mind can exist outside the body.

7. Body can exist without a mind.

EBENs of extraterrestrial origin, comes to my mind. 

EBENs do not have a soul or self but are biological robots.

This is where the bio-engineering would create biological entities / agents that can reproduce identical biological robots. 

The presumption here is that without a previous existence of the mind,          a “new soul” cannot be created de novo.

8. Highest level of mind’s existence is its detachment from the entanglement with the body (current or future existence) or Nirvana in Buddhist Terminology.

9. There have to be many minds of existences and there cannot be a “Unity of Mind” (as a God or super agent of creation).

10. All of the above is not true.

11. Some are plausible and some are not.

Alcohol Consumption

Alcohol Consumption 

Regarding alcohol, what I find interesting is the minimum even in Bangladesh (country with lowest intake) is one litre of pure alcohol per person.        

Which is a colossal amount when multiplied by the total population. 

I find it interesting Iranians drink as much as Russians.

 It is said Belorussians drink the most but their officials figures are scaled down. Maldivians drink more simply due to lack of water supply.       

Come to Ceylonese they drink about 15 times as as Bangladeshis and only about 5 times less as Russians.        

I expected the Africans to drink more but it is true of only a few countries  like Zambia, Nigeria and South Africa. 

Myanmar tops India and Indians drink (unlike seen in Tamilnadu films),  far less amount than Ceylonese. 

My gut feeling was that people of rich and relatively happy countries consume more but they are less than all the Muslim countries put together. 

Malaysia is an exception. 

I guessed Singaporean drinks more but I was wrong. The reason, they have no time to drink.

Except New Zealand most of the Western counties drink an average more than Asians.              

The Australians are heavy drinkers but it is coming down unlike in UK and USA.

My analysis is where there are dictators running the country, the alcohol consumption is high. 

Myanmar is a classic example and some Latin American countries with dictators running the affairs are close allies of alcohol. 

A point what our Buddhist monks have failed to grasp is when there is a dictator running, the alcohol consumption goes up significantly and rapidly.           

So, if we want to drop alcohol consumption democracy should go hand in hand not other way round. 

If our alcohol consumption goes up by the next election do not blame the drinker but the rulers. 

The corollary is, for a dictator to succeed the country should streamline and jack up alcohol production and sell alcohol at an affordable price. 

The variety does not matter but the production rate does.

I gather Americans are drinking much more after the previous election with enthusiasm and steam. This will increase if, President Biden approves and let the furloughing, through. President Biden has to make sure alcohol production goes unhampered during his term of office and he will be remembered for life, if he cuts down taxes on alcohol in spite of medical advice.   

It does not matter he fails to keep 90% of his promises.

That also make Republicans to drink more and lose track of the elections. 

For his successor to have a smooth riding, he should not follow the doctors advice on alcohol and the numerous medical legislatures brought in front of him for approval. 

Just pretend that the president (President Trump) is absorbing the advice in good spirit. 

Now that the war in the Middle East is escalating one should not let the alcohol price go up but only the oil and the gas prices.