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by mjsabby 2045 days ago
Can you elaborate “never rely on countermeasures”. What are you referring to?
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As a general heuristic, in modern warfare, countermeasures seem not to be very reliable. If you have to rely on countermeasures working perfectly for your mission profile, you're probably doing things wrong.

That's not to say they can't help you win, but even if it seems that they are perfectly effective history shows that they generally aren't.

I think it's in reference to ABM defense. The ABM is the countermeasure.