I remember reading from 5 star reddit armchair generals that their militaries weren't intended to be fighting guerilla warfare, which is why their oh-so-humanitarian-totally-never-target-civilians militaries struggled so much against guerilla fighters in their wars against Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. They instead said that they were designed to obliterate traditional militaries in uniform such as those of their current state department designated enemies.
For all the "Russia's a bunch of poor commies still using USSR era equipment", sounds like NATO and its proxies had a wakeup call when this time they're on the receiving end where they didn't have superiority in firepower, on the ground and the air.
One of my favorite armchair general things to hit people with is that the T-72 is a smaller, lighter, less protected tank... because it was built to cross bridges in Eastern Europe that would collapse under the weight of the massively over-engineered Abrams.
I remember reading from 5 star reddit armchair generals that their militaries weren't intended to be fighting guerilla warfare, which is why their oh-so-humanitarian-totally-never-target-civilians militaries struggled so much against guerilla fighters in their wars against Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. They instead said that they were designed to obliterate traditional militaries in uniform such as those of their current state department designated enemies.
For all the "Russia's a bunch of poor commies still using USSR era equipment", sounds like NATO and its proxies had a wakeup call when this time they're on the receiving end where they didn't have superiority in firepower, on the ground and the air.
Oh hey, I think I've actually seen one of those here on the Grad!
Redditor invasion of Lemmy, 2023 lol
Like the military, they're not set up to challenge people who argue back.
One of my favorite armchair general things to hit people with is that the T-72 is a smaller, lighter, less protected tank... because it was built to cross bridges in Eastern Europe that would collapse under the weight of the massively over-engineered Abrams.
They dream about Omdurman.