Zheng tells Ceng that SVR is going to be defeated in detail, and if the PLA doesn't send another army group then within three months there will be European soldiers at the border with Xinjiang. “They have 300,000 tanks.” Ceng: “Burma has 8 million enci...

[ww3real@mastodon.social]

Zheng tells Ceng that SVR is going to be defeated in detail, and if the PLA doesn't send another army group then within three months there will be European soldiers at the border with Xinjiang. “They have 300,000 tanks.” Ceng: “Burma has 8 million encircled troops.”

[timbray@cosocial.ca]

@ww3real BTW the way you use “in detail” is not quite idiomatic. Try something like “comprehensively” or “conclusively”?

[sfsworms@masto.nu]

@timbray @ww3real 'in detail' doesn't just mean conclusively though, it means that each bit of the SVR will be defeated one by one as they're isolated.

[alon@mastodon.social]

@sfsworms @timbray @ww3real Yeah, this. Defeating in detail is a military tactic of defeating an army that's split up one piece at a time. (This is why ancient armies, before modern artillery and machineguns, huddled together to the point that a battle with 100,000 troops on each side was on a single field and lasted 1-2 days - any split meant being defeated in detail.)

[timbray@cosocial.ca]

@Alon @sfsworms @ww3real And what do you know, it is idiomatic, I'm wrong, oops. I think of myself as fairly well-read on history, interesting that I managed to miss that one.