Originally by: Evanda Char

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"Dear San Matar Shakor,

For the last 4 years I have laboured loyally on behalf of both our nation and our people. As their freely chosen leader, you have my unquestioning support.

Or you did. Having reviewed the facts of our current conflict with the Amarr and Caldari, I feel there is something I must say.

Have you had a ****ing lobotomy?

Seriously, how herbivorously stupid do you have to be to come to a set of decisions like the following:

1. There is an alliance that has pledged loyalty to the Republic, has served it for over four years and spent all that time waiting and preparing for exactly this war and you will not let it fight unless it cripples itself by atomising down to its constituent corporations. We became an alliance because we are stronger and more effective that way, not just because we fancied an extra bill.

"But alliances aren't trustworthy!" I hear you cry. That would be why most of us are floating around with ratings like my own - the Minmatar Republic apparently considers me 98% trustworthy. It lets me anchor starbases in its high security space. Most of its corporations waive tax on my behalf and let me use their medical facilities to create jumpclones. But gods forbid I should fight on its behalf, that would give me too many opportunities to...

What exactly? Get our arses conquered?

You are already doing just fine on that front!

2. I'm not sure how it works in professional military circles, but I honestly think our military installations might be more effective if they didn't surrender to the first person to make them dizzy.

This ties into my next point, which is:

3. You should probably only surrender if the enemy is actually there. After they've left, you can consider yourself to have been let off.

4. The enemy will likely be defeated much faster if you shoot at them. I have found this to be a very effective tactic on numerous campaigns and if you try it, I assure you, you will be very impressed with its efficacy.

5. On a related note, the converse is also true. It may sound wildly implausible, but making the enemy work hard in order to beat you should be a priority for any nation which stands to have its people shipped off in freighters for indoctrination into slavery.

In particular, it will make it much harder for the Amarr and Caldari militias to capture our installations, and much easier for your own forces to defend them if you didn't mandate that all new installations must be set up right after lunch.

In closing, I would like to sum up with a message to our fleet command.

What the **** is wrong with you?"

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Originally by: Z0D

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Issue supported, I will raise it, please continue the discussion so I can incorporate it in my documents.

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Originally by: Evanda Char

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Awesomeness.

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Originally by: Arkady Sadik

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The whole bunker concept is broken. Once a system goes vulnerable, the task of actually defending it is neigh impossible - not only do you need to fight a big fleet battle where the other side can throw in everything they have, you also have to get people to plex in other systems, hoping that one of those plexes spawns in the vulnerable system so you can make it less vulnerable again... only to get it once again vulnerable should another plex spawn there and you see it too late.

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