01.9
There've been some back and forth on the forums and in the blogs regarding IT. Rather than take the spiel at face value my understanding of the situation was generally a direct result of conversation with my mates in MVN.- A month ago 'everything was fine' and the masses were gearing up to break some face.
- Two weeks ago they 'didn't need finfleet or x13'
- Last week the core of IT was going to stay and fight it out to the bitter end.
- This week, the apathy has set in on my old corp mates; they've told me that they started moving stuff outta delve.
Easly Thames made a blog post (I hope this shuts up the shouting about one sided reporting... If no one from IT submits news/leads then no wonder it was all Goon propaganda) where he claims this whole shebang comes as a result of bloat acquired in the quiet months after Delve was taken. It's also been passed around that the internal conflict was due to the 'older' bob corps plying influence in the directorship rather than letting ability decide responcibility. To be brutally frank I think
the bigger problem is that as a giant nullsec power, IT didn't so much take delve as they had it handed to them when goonswarm forgot to pay into its sov wallet.
The 'slugfests' to take fountain and period basis were more heated than the move on delve; and even those fights didn't last particularly long. I'm inclined to think that it may have taken longer to make all those "were back" videos IT released when they formed than it did to plant sov in an entirely shattered delve.
In this armchair generals oppinion THAT lack of a drawn out fight cost IT more than anything else. In the realm of bloc politics, either a bloc develops a tight structure of leadership, or they lose against someone who does. Being the defender or attacker is irrelevant; the tighter side dominates. Barring outside influences, the political and military interactions of nullsec alliances are self correcting for weakness.
- An attacker that lacks the will to fight lacks the ability to win.
- A defender that never tempered it's command structure in a drawn out sov war lacks he command structure to win a drawn out defence.
Had IT alliance been forced to fight Goons for delve rather than claim it in a police auction; they'd have seen the problems that are currently being excused away and resolved them. Failing to resolve them; they would have never claimed delve. As it stands, they got to grab hold of a giant swath of space, and dealt with none of the self correcting mechanism that grabbing (or losing in my case vis-a-vis AAA) space comes with.
Shoddy leadership, close minded fleet doctrine architects, noncommittal supercapital wings, poor treatment of buffer pets; whatever excuse people make now can be brought back to the initial conditions of the territorial claim. The same goes for other alliances too.
Being handed space isn't the sort of way a power bloc ought to stand up for counting; that's the way an established bloc hands the new kid a chance to proove their meetle; if that new kid sits on the sofa rather than go find some space of their own then theres little hope.
Look at Test for an example of how its done right; and OWN/IT for the textbook "youre doing it wrong".
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