nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqc29fd5wcfk76um3c2a62k943zkr3r3ap723c5agute074x3v5t8q2dug6l (nprofile…ug6l) How do you figure?
The US military is lethal as hell. My criticisms are:
- the US military has a hard-on for fancy gadgets and appears to prefer to destroy $25K targets with $1M weapons (e.g.: we've spent 3 planes, a navy captain's very expensive career, and roughly $2B dollars to destroy maybe $100M worth of equipment and buildings in Yemen)
- the US military leadership can't make the leap from killing people to accomplishing national security goals (e.g., Houthis are now fucking with ships in Haifa; but the US' goal was not to kill people and make rubble in Yemen - the US' goal is to unfuck shipping)
- the US politicians to whom the US military report are too dumb to realize that their DoD is both way too expensive for what they do, and the strategy skills of the DoD leaders is more focused on spending money than global accomplishments.
In conclusion: the US military spends assloads for a body count, and they are good at it. They are a lot less good at accomplishing strategic US political goals, but if you fuck with them, they will probably kill you if they decide to.
Grumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 /
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2025-05-20 05:43:49
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