• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    24 days ago

    Near peers? Pretty sure there’s a whole ocean separating Argentina and Britain, even if the islands where the conflict occurred were “just next door” to mainland Argentina.

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      24 days ago

      That’s not what the near in near peer means…

      It’s a measure of military capability between nations. A Near Peer would be a nation that shares similar capabilities for force projection or in otherwords the powerscale is 1:1.